{"id":807506,"date":"2026-07-18T04:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807506\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:27:19","slug":"caitlin-clark-pours-in-career-high-45-points-as-fever-edge-storm-in-thriller-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/807506\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark pours in career-high 45 points as Fever edge Storm in thriller | WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 45 points and had 10 assists for the first 40-10 game in WNBA history, and the Indiana Fever<\/a> beat Seattle 110-107 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Clark, who had four steals and two blocks, also became the fastest player in WNBA<\/a> history to make 200 career three-pointers, doing it in 74 games, breaking the previous mark of 81 games set by Katie Smith. Her 45 points were also a franchise record.<\/p>\n

Kelsey Mitchell scored 30 points for the Fever (15-10) and Monique Billings added 16.<\/p>\n

Dominique Malonga had 28 points and 14 rebounds for Seattle, which lost its fourth in a row.<\/p>\n

It appeared Flau\u2019jae Johnson had a fast-break layup, but Clark hustled back and blocked the shot off Johnson and out of bounds with 54.9 seconds to play. Clark then hit a three from the left wing that made it 105-102 and made 4 of 4 from the free-throw line in the final 17 seconds to seal it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Clark scored 10 points in a 12-4 run and capped the spurt with a three-pointer that made it 49-32 with 7:28 left before halftime.<\/p>\n

Mitchell scored 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting, and Clark added five points, five assists and two steals, as the Fever tied their highest-scoring first quarter this season and took a 37-26 lead after one.<\/p>\n

Johnson and Awa Fam had 16 points apiece for Seattle, and Natisha Hiedeman and Jade Melbourne each scored 15.<\/p>\n

The Storm (6-21) have lost six of seven.<\/p>\n

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Aliyah Boston (leg) did not play for Indiana on the first night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n

Indiana beat the Storm 89-78 at home on 17 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 45 points and had 10 assists for the first 40-10 game in WNBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-807506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}