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The Indiana Fever (19-17) play the second contest of their back-to-back against the league-leading Minnesota Lynx (29-7) on Sunday evening from the Target Center in Minneapolis.
Indiana will do so without point guard Caitlin Clark, who was ruled out for the game with her right groin injury on Saturday evening.
It now marks the 15th straight regular-season game that Clark has missed, dating back to her exit in the final minute of the Fever’s 85-77 win over the Connecticut Sun on July 15. The 6-foot superstar has now missed 24 regular-season games and her 25 games overall in 2025 due to injury, including the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final.
The Fever continue to contend that Clark wants to return in 2025, but, after Sunday, only seven regular-season games will remain for Indiana.
“It’s been really frustrating. I mean, Caitlin wants to play, you know, she’s a competitor. She just wants to be on the floor. She just wants to play basketball.
“She’s in the mindset that she’s hungry, right, that she wants to be out there, and she wants to be with her team, and she’s working her butt off to get back in those situations. I think each time you have a tweak, or each time you have something else, it’s frustrating,” Fever head coach Stephanie White said after Thursday’s practice.
On Wednesday, reports surfaced that Clark has also been dealing with a separate injury since Aug. 7. Clark suffered a bone bruise in her left ankle during a workout in Phoenix on Aug. 7, though Fever sources indicated to the IndyStar that the bone bruise didn’t affect Clark’s return timeline.
Meanwhile, the Fever have just been ravaged by injuries overall. In addition to season-ending injuries to guards Sydney Colson, Aari McDonald and Sophie Cunningham, Indiana is now dealing with injuries to forward Chloe Bibby (left knee) and guard Odyssey Sims (right groin).
After a record-setting rookie campaign, Clark has been limited to just 13 games in 2025. Clark is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists, 5 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 36.7% from the field and 27.9% from 3-point range.
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