{"id":722850,"date":"2026-05-01T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/722850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:39:17","slug":"fever-coach-reveals-caitlin-clark-concern-level-after-injury-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/722850\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever coach reveals Caitlin Clark concern level after injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fever coach reveals Caitlin Clark concern level after injury scare<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark<\/a> can’t catch a break.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

Or can she?<\/p>\n

Fans feared the worst when Clark landed awkwardly following a 3-point attempt in Thursday’s preseason game between the Indiana Fever<\/a> and the Dallas Wings<\/a>. The showdown — billed as a meeting of the WNBA’s past four no.1 overall draft picks — could well have been a nightmare for Clark and the Fever when the superstar guard came up limping after the Wings’ Alanna Smith<\/a> fouled her on the shot attempt.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0Caitlin Clark\u2019s early dominance overshadowed by injury scare in Fever loss<\/a><\/p>\n

Smith, the WNBA’s reigning co-Defensive Player of the Year, was assessed a Flagrant 1 on the play. Clark shot three free throws and made two of them before she sat the rest of the game.<\/p>\n

Clark, who scored a game-high 21 points in 16 minutes, tried to play down the limp as she told reporters postgame that she felt “good.”<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

“Just landed on my kneecap really hard,” Clark said<\/a> after the Fever’s 95-80 loss.<\/p>\n

Fever head coach Stephanie White revealed postgame that Clark was not going to play deep into the third quarter, which is when the incident occurred. Opting to play it safe a week before the 2026 regular season starts, White quickly removed Clark following the injury scare.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had planned for her to come out around that time anyway,\u201d White said. \u201cIt was just extra precaution, I think, getting her out in that moment, but the plan was for her to start the third quarter then get her out quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately for the Fever, White said she knew Clark would be able to “shake that one off” following a stretch of injuries that cost her all but 13 games in 2025.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can kind of see in her face, sometimes,\u201d White said. \u201cIt was like, ‘Alright, she took one.'”<\/p>\n

The Fever<\/a> have one final preseason game on Saturday, against the Nigeria national team. While White’s concern level is minimal, Clark — who already has played in two preseason games — may be rested in Indiana’s final tuneup for the long season ahead.<\/p>\n

More WNBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fever coach reveals Caitlin Clark concern level after injury scare originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[36969,7,455,6074,3732,459,6348,3747],"class_list":["post-722850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-alanna-smith","tag-basketball","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-dallas-wings","tag-fever","tag-indiana-fever","tag-preseason-game","tag-stephanie-white"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116499130857147353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722850","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=722850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}