{"id":27552,"date":"2025-05-12T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/27552\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:28:11","slug":"caitlin-clark-felt-bad-after-what-she-witnessed-on-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/27552\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Felt &#8216;Bad&#8217; After What She Witnessed on Sunday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are set to open the regular season on Saturday, marking the beginning of Clark&#8217;s second year in the WNBA. In her final preseason tune-up this past weekend against the Atlanta Dream, the reigning Rookie of the Year tallied 13 points, six rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n<p>Before the season begins, Clark enjoyed some NBA playoff action. On Sunday, she watched the Indiana Pacers face the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 of their second-round series from her<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/caitlin-clarks-outfit-pacers-cavaliers-013244296.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:usual suite;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> usual suite<\/a> at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The game wasn\u2019t close at all. Indiana came out flying in the first half, building a lead as large as 41 points, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/pacers-cavaliers-game-4-tie-record-halftime-lead-2025-playoffs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:which tied an NBA playoff record;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">which tied an NBA playoff record<\/a>. The Pacers ended the second quarter on a 19-2 run and went on to win 129-109. They now hold a 3-1 series lead over the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark at an NBA playoff game.Trevor Ruszkowski\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/04ec7a24e62c8d95a7253c30a6a5b1a6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark at an NBA playoff game.Trevor Ruszkowski<\/p>\n<p>Clark appeared on the Pacers\u2019 postgame radio show to discuss the game. The 23-year-old, now a fan of the Pacers in her new home city, admitted that at one point, she even felt &#8220;bad&#8221; for Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just one of those nights where you literally could not miss,&#8221; Clark said. &#8220;It was Aaron (Nesmith). It was Myles (Turner). It was Pascal (Siakam). It was just one to the next, and it was really, really fun to watch. I felt honestly just bad for the Cavs at one point, but man, that was some good basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark has become friendly with several Pacers players since arriving in Indiana last year, most notably star guard Tyrese Haliburton.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>She and her boyfriend, Connor McCaffery, have been seen spending time with Haliburton and his girlfriend, Jade Jones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/fever-coach-breaks-silence-caitlin-183800728.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Fever Coach Breaks Silence on Star Player\u2019s Concerning Fracture;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Fever Coach Breaks Silence on Star Player\u2019s Concerning Fracture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/fans-notice-caitlin-clark-being-140005355.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Fans Notice Caitlin Clark Being Treated Differently Than Paige Bueckers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Fans Notice Caitlin Clark Being Treated Differently Than Paige Bueckers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever are set to open the regular season on Saturday, marking the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7689,7,455,193,113,459,126,3866,6,261,114,259,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-27552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-atlanta-dream","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-caitlin-clark","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-indiana","13":"tag-indiana-fever","14":"tag-indiana-pacers","15":"tag-indianapacers","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-nesmith","18":"tag-pacers","19":"tag-siakam","20":"tag-tyrese-haliburton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114495573606534201","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}