Caitlin Clark’s injury-spoiled season has her Indiana Fever in a narrowing, pressurized spot for the rest of 2025. A’ja Wilson’s MVP reign has been uncharacteristically rocky, as her Las Vegas Aces are scrapping to stay above .500. Thursday’s game is a big one for both teams, with Indiana taking its floor as slight home underdogs.

How to watch Las Vegas Aces at Indiana Fever

Venue: Gainbridge Fieldhouse — Indianapolis

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Time: 7 p.m. ET, Thursday

TV: Prime Video (national); WTHR Channel 13 and Vegas 34 (regional)

Streaming: Fubo (in-market, try for free)

Watching in person? Get tickets on StubHub.

National audiences will see this game on Prime Video, but the Fever will rock threads inspired by Netflix’s tentpole sci-fi show. Indiana’s “Stranger Things” alternate uniforms are officially debuted Thursday. It’s a fitting collaboration — that series is set around rural Hoosier State woods, and the Fever themselves have been playing “upside down” without their superstar initiator.

Stranger, indeed. What a confusing year for these Fever, from Clark’s three different soft tissue injuries to DeWanna Bonner’s troubled stint to … dominating the Commissioner’s Cup final, against the Minnesota Lynx no less? For a bonus hit, Sophie Cunningham just got fined for a TikTok video cracking jokes about league officiating.

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Indiana harbored deep playoff hopes at the start of the season; by the midway mark, it’s pushing for whatever postseason action it can get. Indy enters Thursday’s matchup at 12-12 after enduring consecutive double-digit losses to the New York Liberty. The team is still third in points per game and offensive rating, but the system is obviously compromised without Clark pushing pace and spreading the floor.

There’s still a lot of skill on this roster, though. All-Star paint presence Aliyah Boston posted a 15-12-6 line against the Liberty’s talented bigs Tuesday. Fellow All-Star Kelsey Mitchell has the highest scoring average of her eight-year pro tenure, on solid 46.8/36.4/75.8 percent shooting splits. The defense has been inconsistent, if not outright flat on some nights, but the Fever are still winning turnover and rebounding margins at large.

Las Vegas (12-11) has underwhelmed in its own right. The Aces are No. 9 of the 13 teams in offensive rating and defensive rating. Wilson is still balling out, but she’s giving away possessions at a career-worst mark. Six-time All-Star and two-time WNBA champ Jewell Loyd comes in at an unsightly 37.7 percent from the floor, and she’s struggled to acclimate to her new digs after a decorated decade up in Seattle.

At least the Aces are on the upswing, having won three straight games (Golden State, then Dallas, then Atlanta on Tuesday). Wilson dropped 24 points on the Dream’s Brittney Griner and Brionna Jones in that last outing. Her former all-league teammates Loyd, Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young combined to go just 9-for-28, though.

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