Caitlin Clark: Lesions monitoring and its WNBA 2025 season

ByDavid Mitchell
Caitlin Clark: Lesions monitoring and its WNBA 2025 season

Three different injuries have affected the Faver star during the regular WNBA phase. Follow the track at its tour in 2025.

The first WNBA 2025 Star Game in Indianapolis It is supposed to be a completion of Caitlin Clark In its second season. She was appointed captain in the game of stars on July 19 and planned to participate in the challenge of the triples the day before. Instead, Clark watched again from the bank, an image that has become too common this season.

Clark No game was lost during its four years at the University of Iowa or during its WNBA debut season in 2024, but Three different injuries have left her out of the regular season this summer (In addition to the final of the Commissioner’s Cup, which does not count for the equipment records). More recently, a sprain in the right groin suffered in a match on July 15 forced Clark To miss the game of the stars – where it was the player with the most votes in the vote of the fans – and keeps it out of action.

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Novate of the last year and selected for the first All-Wnba team of 2024, Clark averages 16.5 points, 8.8 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 1.6 robberies this seasonparticipating in 13 games (8-5).

Clark’s absences have tarnished an Indiana season that began with great potential. After classifying the postseason for the first time since 2016, the Fever, who face the Chicago Sky on Sunday, July 27 (AM850+ in the US, Disney+ in Mexico)began this season with great hope after a very active low season that included several key acquisitions of free agents and the return of Stephanie White for her second stage as the main coach.

Considering that, return frequently while We monitor the injuries, absences and shots of Clark this 2025 season of the WNBA.

May 3: left leg pain leaves Clark out of the first preseason game

Clarkwho suffered an injury in the left quadriceps during the training camp, the first preseason game of the Fevera 79-74 victory in extra time over the Washington Mystics, due to what she describes as rigidity in the quadriceps.

But Clark Play the next day, when Fever They beat the Brazilian team by 108-44 in an exhibition match at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa, closing with 16 points in 19 minutes and culminating the night with a triple of 11 meters (36 feet) from just behind the point of the court where its logo number 22 is set.

May 26: sprain in the left quadriceps leaves out Clark

Indiana The season begins with a balance of 2-2, losing its two games for a total of three points, but nine days after the season, the FAver announce that Clark at least two weeks will be lost by a sprain in the left quadriceps. Although it is the same leg, a team spokesman said that it is a different injury to what Clark suffered in the preseason.

White said Clark I was not sure when it was injured, but that reported pain in the leg after the defeat of May 24 against the New York Liberty.

Clark Five games were lost from May 28 to June 10; Indiana had a 2-3 record in that period.

June 14: Clark scores 32 points in his first game in 21 days

Clark He looked in his first return game, with a total of 32 points, 9 assists and 8 rebounds, giving the New York Liberty his first defeat of the season. Clark He scored 25 points in the first half, driven by a period in the first quarter, when he brought three consecutive triples, the first from 10 meters (33 feet). He scored a triple from 8.2 meters (27 feet) 21 seconds later and another from 9.5 meters (31 feet) 22 seconds later. It ended with seven triples.

Clarkwho was responsible for 54 of the points of Indiana With his annotations and passes in the 102-88 victory over the current WNBA champions, he played 31 minutes and 18 seconds, and after the game he claimed to feel good, except for the lack of air at some times.

“I felt very strong legs. I felt in good shape,” he said.

June 26: Clark is discarded again

Clark Play five consecutive games; the Fever They have a 3-2 record, including a 94-86 victory against the Seattle Storm on June 24, breaking a streak of two losses as visitors. However, Clarkwho pulled 0 of 6 triples against the Storm, is discarded two days later due to a sprain in the left groin before a game at home against Los Angeles Sparks.

White states that before the game he learned of the injury the night before, after the team technical staff made a magnetic resonance Clark.

Before being low again, Clark Light 1 of 23 triple on a three -game streak.

July 9: Clark returns, but the Faver falls below .500

In his first game in 15 days, Clark He scored 10 points with 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 ball losses in just under 25 minutes in the defeat for 80-61 against the Golden State Valkyries.

That defeat leaves Fever With a 9-10 record in the season: 5-5 with Clark On the court and 4-5 without it.

White states that the “lack of competitive spirit” of Fever It was the cause of defeat.

July 15: Clark suffers a right groin injury; their shooting problems continue

The Fever There are three consecutive victories as the recess of the stars game approaches, improving its record at 12-10, two games above .500 for the first time this season. But in the last minute of the 85-77 victory over the Connecticut Sun, Clark He stops while heading to the basket, throws a chopped pass and holds the internal part of the right thigh. Visibly frustrated, briefly resting his head against the post, Clark He leaves the court while fighting to contain tears, finally covering his head with a towel.

Clark It ends with 14 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists, including nine points and two assists in the last quarter.

However, Clark Light 1 of 7 triples, bruising just his second triple away from home this season. In his four games before his last injury, Clark has 23.1% success in triples (6 of 26).

After the party, White told the journalists that Clark “felt something in groin”.

July 16: Clark lost its 10th regular season game

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Clarkwho, according to team officers, underwent image tests to determine the seriousness of the injury, his tenth match of the regular season is lost. Indiana Lose 98-77 against New York Liberty.

White states that he will consult with the preparation team of the Fever On the results of the tests, but he adds: “I consider it good news” because “everything we are talking about that is still day by day is always good news for me.”

July 17: Clark loses the All-Star and the Triple Contest

Clark He announces that Friday’s triple contest will be lost and Saturday’s stars game in Indianapolis.

“It saddens me a lot and I am disappointed to say that I can’t participate,” he wrote Clark In a statement shared by Fever In social networks. “I have to rest my body and let it heal.”

July 20: White says that Clark will undergo more tests

Clark He does not play on Tuesday, July 22 in a 98-84 defeat at New York Liberty’s house and will undergo additional evidence due to an injury to the right groin, according to Indiana’s coach, White, the day after the game of the stars.

Clark And the team should be “luckily a clearer vision of how (the future) will be” after consulting doctors, journalists told White.

In his only appearance before the media during the weekend of the stars, Clark He claims that he tries to have as much as possible despite the disappointment of not being able to play.

“When I was injured, it was quite frustrating, considering what would hold for me the next few days,” he said before the game of Sunday’s stars. “But (this weekend) they were not going to take it out. Of course, maybe I can’t play, but I can be here and participate, and I have many friends and family in the city that are having a great time. So I’ve been trying to enjoy it to the fullest.”

July 24: Without date for Clark’s return after more tests

Indiana announces that Clark It has no date for his return to the court, after undergoing new medical evaluations this week.

Clark will continue working with the medical team of the Fever In his recovery and rehabilitation, according to the team, prioritizing their long -term health and well -being.

Clark The game of Thursday, July 24, an 80-70 victory over the ACES that leaves the Fever with 13-12 record in the season, 5-7 without Clark.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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