{"id":202863,"date":"2025-09-05T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202863\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T17:24:11","slug":"caitlin-clark-announces-she-will-miss-remainder-of-wnba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/202863\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark announces she will miss remainder of WNBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fever G Caitlin Clark announcing that she will miss the remainder of the season due to injury has brought a \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d for Clark, the WNBA and the Fever to \u201creality,\u201d according to Kareem Copeland of the WASHINGTON POST. Clark has missed all but 13 games with a \u201clitany of ailments\u201d and she has not played since July 15 (WASHINGTON POST, 9\/4<\/a>). THE ATHLETIC\u2019s Sabreena Merchant wrote \u201ca high volume of injuries<\/a> have plagued the WNBA\u201d this season. MVP candidates Aces C A\u2019ja Wilson and Mercury F Alyssa Thomas missed time earlier in the year, and Lynx F Napheesa Collier and Liberty F Breanna Stewart were \u201cout for long stretches\u201d in August. Sky F Angel Reese also missed multiple weeks after the All-Star break. Merchant: \u201cMany of the WNBA\u2019s marquee national television matchups lost their luster due to injury. Clark and Reese faced each other once. Collier and Stewart were never on the court together, and neither were Clark and presumptive Rookie of the Year Paige Bueckers.\u201d The league may have \u201csustained\u201d its viewership growth from last season, but broadcast partners \u201cmissed out on another Clark-induced spike — and they will again in the postseason\u201d (THE ATHLETIC, 9\/5<\/a>).<\/p>\n

WHAT\u2019S NEXT?<\/b> In Indianapolis, Chloe Peterson noted depending on how long Clark needs to recover, she \u201ccould opt to play\u201d in Unrivaled or the Athletes Unlimited league during the WNBA offseason \u201cin order to get some reps\u201d (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9\/4<\/a>). CBSSPORTS.com\u2019s Jack Maloney wrote aside perhaps from Lakers F LeBron James in the NBA, \u201cno single player in North American sports is more important to their respective league than Clark.\u201d Maloney: \u201cEverything she touches turns to gold, from TV ratings to merchandise sales to attendance figures.\u201d The WNBA is \u201cstill having a successful season\u201d — the league broke its single-season attendance record, \u201cthanks in part to the extended 44-game season — but there\u2019s no debate that Clark brings extra eyeballs<\/a> to the league.\u201d Maloney: \u201cThe reality is simple: When she\u2019s not playing, fewer people are interested\u201d (CBSSPORTS.com, 9\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n

A BIT MISLEADING<\/b>: In Indianapolis, Gregg Doyel noted the Fever considered Clark to be \u201cday-to-day\u201d on July 16 — where even then, Fever coach Stephanie White was seeing it as \u201cgood news.\u201d Then fifty days later, the Fever announced Clark wouldn\u2019t return this season. Doyel: \u201cAm I saying the Fever have mislead the public about the extent of Clark\u2019s injury? No. It\u2019s possible they\u2019ve merely handled the messaging around the injury poorly.\u201d He adds, \u201cThe Fever\u2019s lack of transparency, coupled with White\u2019s statement on July 16 — Clark was \u2018day-to-day\u2019 seven weeks ago, really? — make it difficult to know what to believe.\u201d Doyel writes, \u201cMaybe someday we\u2019ll get the rest of the story, because it\u2019s difficult to believe we have it yet\u201d (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 9\/5<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fever G Caitlin Clark announcing that she will miss the remainder of the season due to injury has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232,1707],"class_list":{"0":"post-202863","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","13":"tag-womens-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115152857481288147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202863","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=202863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}