{"id":130700,"date":"2025-08-09T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:16:09","slug":"caitlin-clark-admits-responsibility-to-return-to-wnba-court-reveals-mothers-powerful-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130700\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark admits ‘responsibility’ to return to WNBA court, reveals mother’s powerful advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

After not missing a single game last season, Caitlin Clark<\/a><\/strong> has missed over half of the Indiana Fever\u2019s outings this season due to a groin injury. During an appearance on the Bird\u2019s Eye View with Sue Bird podcast, Clark opened up the pressure she feels to return to the court.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard, because obviously I do feel this responsibility of being out there and playing,\u201d\u00a0Clark said<\/a><\/strong>. \u201c\u2026 And not that I think there\u2019s a fear of any of this going away. That doesn\u2019t happen when like, LeBron or Steph get hurt. [Fans] are always going to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201dBut you do want to play, you want to give people something to cheer about or scream about. People spend so much time, and money, and resources to come and watch you play. And it\u2019s been cool to see people continue to show up for my teammates, whether they\u2019re fans of the Fever just fans of myself, they\u2019re continuing to show up and support.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark has missed the Fever\u2019s last nine games and 18 games total this season. The Fever are 8-5 with Clark this season and 9-9 without her. The team recently went on a five-game win streak, but have fallen in a slump since then, losing their last two contests.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s absence not only hurts the Fever, but the entire WNBA<\/a><\/strong>. The league has experienced a massive surge in popularity since Clark was drafted last year.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s impact on the league\u2019s viewership was never more obvious than during this year\u2019s WNBA All-Star weekend. When Clark played in the WNBA All-Star Game last season, there were 3.44 million viewers. Those ratings dipped 36% to 2.19 million viewers this year with Clark out, per\u00a0Ryan Glasspiegel of\u00a0Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Clark wants to get back on the hardwood, she also doesn\u2019t want to return too early and produce subpar performances. Clark is averaging 16.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game. However, she\u2019s shooting just 36.7% from the field and 27.9% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark\u2019s inefficiency this season is largely due to her injuries and lack of a rhythm. The two-time WNBA All-Star revealed the advice her mother gave her about returning from injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly on with the first couple injuries, I was like, \u2018I need to get back,\u2019\u201d Clark said. \u201cBut I think my mom texted after this last injury, and they know how hard it\u2019s been on me, but my mom was like,\u2019 You\u2019ve taken so much time for everybody else, you have to take time for yourself now.\u2019 So I\u2019m just trying to do that the best I can, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After not missing a single game last season, Caitlin Clark has missed over half of the Indiana Fever\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[41815,62,67,132,68,232,1707],"class_list":{"0":"post-130700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-caitlin-clark-20-dowling-catholic","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wnba","14":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114996641439482081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130700","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=130700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}