{"id":81664,"date":"2025-07-21T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81664\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:52:09","slug":"caitlin-clark-out-jonquel-jones-back-for-fever-liberty-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/81664\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark out, Jonquel Jones back for Fever-Liberty game"},"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\/07\/1753134729_534_philippou_alexa.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/>\n<p>Alexa PhilippouJul 21, 2025, 05:40 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> 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> was officially listed as out with a right groin injury for Tuesday&#8217;s matchup against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad8ccde6-59b3-fbe6-2faf-a835fa224ca1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/ny\/new-york-liberty\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a>, while 2024 Finals MVP <a data-player-guid=\"d5154a93-4a46-71af-8b55-f69328b84b54\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/2999101\/jonquel-jones\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonquel Jones<\/a> (ankle) is off the injury report and is set to make her return for her first game since June 19.<\/p>\n<p>Clark will miss her 11th regular season game (12th overall including the Commissioner&#8217;s Cup final) due to injury after not being sidelined across her collegiate career and rookie WNBA season. The two-time All-Star and 2024 No. 1 pick had previously been sidelined for two earlier stretches this summer with left quad and left groin injuries. Clark is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds this year.<\/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\/45769241\/caitlin-clark-indiana-fever-2025-wnba-season-injury\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1520642_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>Jones, meanwhile, has been limited to nine games this season after spraining her right ankle in early June and then, after a brief absence, aggravating the injury a few weeks later. The defending champion Liberty have struggled in her absence and are just 7-5 in contests without the five-time All-Star and 2021 league MVP, sliding in the rankings after a 9-0 start.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-6 forward is averaging 12.1 points, 9.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists this season while shooting 43.8% clip from the 3-point arc.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever and Liberty tip off at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday on ESPN for their second meeting in a week, both without Clark. The teams met this past Wednesday, also in Brooklyn, where New York prevailed 98-77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexa PhilippouJul 21, 2025, 05:40 PM ET Close Covers women&#8217;s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":81665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-81664","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664","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=81664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}