{"id":432990,"date":"2025-12-08T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/432990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:56:22","slug":"indiana-fever-react-to-stephanie-whites-caitlin-clark-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/432990\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever React to Stephanie White’s Caitlin Clark Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indiana Fever<\/a> brought in Stephanie White with the objective of the former WNBA<\/a> Coach of the Year tapping into Caitlin Clark<\/a>\u2019s full potential. While these two had their moments in their first year together, injuries got in the way of what would have been another memorable campaign for Clark.<\/p>\n

The former WNBA Rookie of the Year was limited to just 13 games in 2025, averaging 16.5 points on 36.7% shooting, 5.0 rebounds, 8.8 assists and 1.6 steals, while also knocking down 2.2 triples in 31.1 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n

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Clark dealt with multiple injuries in 2025, but it was ultimately a right groin injury that forced the Fever to shut Clark down for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) reacts from the bench after a play made by the Las Vegas Aces.\u00a9 Stephen R&period; Sylvanie-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The Fever hired White as their new head coach during the past offseason as the successor of Christie Sides<\/a>. White was coming off two seasons with the Connecticut Sun before she returned to Indiana, where she also served as head coach in 2015 and 2016.<\/p>\n

White recently made a guest appearance on WNBA legend Sue Bird\u2019s \u201cBird\u2019s Eye View\u201d podcast, and one of the main topics in their conversation centered around Clark. At one point in the show, White expressed how impressed she is with Clark\u2019s elite work ethic.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith Caitlin, you know she\u2019s a hard worker because of what she\u2019s been able to accomplish,\u201d White said<\/a>. \u201cBut until you see that there is no wasted movements, no wasted reps, no wasted anything, you just have such level of respect for how she goes about her work every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd understanding the spotlight that she\u2019s on, understanding the weight that she carries because of who she is [\u2026] she\u2019s literally like\u00a0Taylor Swift<\/a>\u00a02.0.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Fever caught wind of White\u2019s statement about the former Iowa Hawkeyes superstar, and it drew a simple reaction from the team.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCaitlin Clark \ud83e\udd1d Taylor Swift,\u201d the Fever posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Clark is a self-professed Swiftie<\/a>, which is partly why White decided to use the comparison. As the Fever coach said, Clark has the ability to compartmentalize \u2014 just like Swift.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s off doing everything all the time. But when she\u2019s there, she\u2019s working,\u201d White added.<\/p>\n

The good news for the Fever is that Clark is expected to make a full recovery in time for the start of the new WNBA season in May. White and Clark\u2019s first year together was cut short, but they should be back with a vengeance come 2026. <\/p>\n

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Related: Indiana Fever Star Lexie Hull Gets Strong Message from WNBA Amid Offseason<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Dec 5, 2025, where it first appeared in the WNBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever brought in Stephanie White with the objective of the former WNBA Coach of the Year…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":432991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[233,2472,1495,234,2184,62,1490,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-432990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-caitlin-clark","9":"tag-connecticut-sun","10":"tag-fever","11":"tag-indiana-fever","12":"tag-las-vegas","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-stephanie-white","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115683353242916156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432990","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=432990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}