{"id":130418,"date":"2025-08-09T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130418\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T00:44:10","slug":"fever-lose-sydney-colson-aari-mcdonald-for-rest-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130418\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever lose Sydney Colson, Aari McDonald for rest of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/philippou_alexa.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Alexa PhilippouAug 8, 2025, 05:21 PM ET<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Covers women&#8217;s college basketball and the WNBA<\/li>\n<li>Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant<\/li>\n<li>Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"bfef1bdd-c2d1-310d-dd9f-645b90575da9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ind\/indiana-fever\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> guards <a data-player-guid=\"c2a56214-6a4c-5140-b8a1-73a0e76932de\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/1004\/sydney-colson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Colson<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"a50ad2c4-d114-e54b-0cb0-3936da6c79e1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4066553\/aari-mcdonald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aari McDonald<\/a> will both miss the remainder of the 2025 season after suffering season-ending injuries Thursday in the Fever&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/game\/_\/gameId\/401736304\/fever-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">95-60 loss<\/a> at the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"514d18a9-00a8-d52b-dda2-37d707f19bd0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/phx\/phoenix-mercury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Mercury<\/a>, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Colson tore her left ACL in the first quarter. McDonald broke a bone in her right foot in the fourth frame.<\/p>\n<p>The team already has been without star <a data-player-guid=\"5ec40e1c-3104-322e-b80f-f358ea26aad4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433403\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> for all but 13 games this summer due to injuries to her quad and groin. Clark has not played since July 15, and there&#8217;s no timetable for her return.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45927938\/wnba-2025-indiana-fever-injuries-caitlin-clark-sydney-colson-aari-mcdonald\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1529446_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/45922277\/wnba-2025-impact-players-all-13-teams-end-season-success-caitlin-clark\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1529074_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>The Fever will have nine available players &#8212; and no true point guards &#8212; for Saturday&#8217;s contest against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"3b4b0e25-5d0c-1ce2-ab25-580273be43e4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/chi\/chicago-sky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sky<\/a>. They won&#8217;t be able to add a hardship player until after the game due to league rules. Following Saturday, the team next hosts the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"34946ff8-281e-c57d-bb76-37fb1ebe3ec6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time champion with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c97eb968-6e82-9785-a302-0bb1a1c1d064\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/lv\/las-vegas-aces\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Aces<\/a>, Colson joined the Fever in free agency, providing a veteran presence and experience in the backcourt. She averaged 2.4 points, 2.0 assists and 0.5 steals in 13.5 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald was initially brought in to help replace Clark when the 2024 No. 1 pick went down with her initial injuries but was signed to a rest-of-season contract in late June after the team parted ways with <a data-player-guid=\"74bfe609-0fcb-e955-df3e-e206e06a3a6a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/869\/dewanna-bonner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeWanna Bonner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald started 13 of 20 games for Indiana, averaging 9.8 points, 4.7 assists and 1.3 steals per contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever, who are 17-14 on the season and sit in fifth place, had won five straight games before their current string of back-to-back losses to Los Angeles and Phoenix, the latter their most lopsided defeat of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa PhilippouAug 8, 2025, 05:21 PM ET Close Covers women&#8217;s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-130418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114996043181089284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}