Caitlin Clark Dealing With Leg Issue Ahead Of Wnba Pre-season

WNBA phenom Caitlin Clark is dealing pinch an evident limb issue, her squad announced connected Friday.

The Indiana Fever listed Clark arsenic questionable pinch nan limb rumor for Saturday's pre-season opener. 

No further specifications are disposable astir nan star's ailment astatine this time.

Last season, Clark averaged 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game. She topped each rookies successful scoring and led nan WNBA successful mean assists, helping nan Fever get backmost to nan playoffs for nan first clip successful 8 years. 

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The Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark looks backmost during nan crippled against nan Atlanta Dream astatine Gateway Center Arena in Atlanta connected Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

But moreover much than her squad depends connected Clark, nan convention and nan athletics arsenic a full person leaned connected nan prima to elevate its popularity. 

Clark made nan Fever nan most-watched squad successful nan WNBA by a landslide successful her rookie year, arsenic nan 14 most-watched games of nan play each progressive nan Fever. On apical of that, she collapsed nan grounds for astir All-Star votes for immoderate subordinate successful WNBA history.

INSIDE CAITLIN CLARK'S IMPACT ON MEN'S BASKETBALL

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark smiles arsenic she looks to nan squad chair during nan crippled against nan Dallas Wings astatine College Park Center successful Arlington, Texas, connected Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

In early September 2024, Clark’s Indiana Fever played earlier a TV assemblage of 1.26 cardinal viewers successful a crippled against nan Minnesota Lynx that occurred astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic a Week-1 Friday nighttime NFL crippled betwixt nan Philadelphia Eagles and nan Green Bay Packers. 

In Clark's first regular-season finale against nan Washington Mystics connected Sept. 19, nan 20,711 fans that showed up astatine Capital One Arena successful Washington, D.C., group a grounds for nan highest-attended WNBA regular-season contest.

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark dribbles during nan crippled against nan Dallas Wings astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Clark and nan Fever drew a WNBA record 1.84 cardinal TV viewers connected ABC to her first playoff crippled against nan Connecticut Sun connected Sept. 22, while competing pinch an NFL Sunday. She followed it up pinch different grounds assemblage of 2.54 cardinal viewers for Game 2.

But aft nan Fever's play ended, nan WNBA playoffs saw a steep drop-off successful viewers. 

The first semifinal crippled betwixt nan Las Vegas Aces and nan New York Liberty, a rematch of past year's WNBA finals betwixt 2 of nan league's astir celebrated and successful teams, drew an assemblage of conscionable 929,000, which was 50% little than nan Fever's Game 1 against nan Sun.

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