Caitlin Clark is not yet authorized to perform contact exercises

Caitlin Clark has been low since June 15 due to a right groin injury. Tuesday’s match against Mercury was the consecutive 19th that was lost.

With only one week of regular season, the base of the Indiana Fever, Caitlin Clarkstill It is not authorized to perform contact exercises during training. However, the second year base participated in 5 years against 0 on a complete court during the practice of shooting in Phoenix on Tuesday morning.

The Faver coach, Stephanie White, informed the press that Caitlin Clark He had limited himself to carrying out shooting and individual work exercises.

Caitlin Clark, rookie from the year 2024, has been low since June 15 due to an injury to the right groin. Tuesday’s game against the Phoenix Mercury was the 19th consecutive one that was lost. He has played only 13 games this season due to several lesions in the left quadriceps, the left groin and the right groin.

On August 7, he suffered a bone contusion on the left ankle. A team spokesman declared AM850 that it is “impossible to determine” if Clark’s deadline to play again was affected by bone contusion, since, to begin with, a return date had never been planned.

However, on Tuesday, when asked if Clark will return before the end of the regular season, White replied: “That is hope. He is working to make sure he returns or is able to do so. I think that the long -term perspective of his health and well -being is the most important thing.”

This coincided with what White said last week.

White has said that he needs Clark to participate in several workouts before receiving the medical discharge to play, and then clarified that, because they have limited time, these training could include only 3 or 4 training against 3 or 4 against 4. Since the training on the court that Clark made on Tuesday was without contact, it does not seem likely that this has for the number of training you need to return to action.

After Tuesday’s game in Phoenix, the Faver only has three games of the regular season left: they will receive the Chicago Sky on Friday, they will visit the Washington Mystics on Sunday and will receive the Minnesota Lynx on September 9.

Indiana currently occupies the seventh place in the classification, ahead of the Seattle Storm, which occupy the eighth place, and half the Golden State Valkyries game, which occupy the sixth.