{"id":855722,"date":"2026-08-15T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:48:11","slug":"caitlin-clark-overcomes-injury-scare-drops-29-points-on-dallas-wings-as-fever-take-top-spot-in-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/855722\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark overcomes injury scare, drops 29 points on Dallas Wings as Fever take top spot in East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever<\/a> were back at the friendly confines of Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis as they welcomed another one of the league’s biggest stars, Paige Bueckers, and the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n

Now, there’s been a lot of drama in the WNBA<\/a> as of late, and this one delivered some of that as well.<\/p>\n

Just a different brand of drama. Not the clotheslining and rage-tweeting-about-White-privilege-from-the-locker-room kind.<\/p>\n

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\"Caitlin <\/p>\n

Caitlin Clark overcame a first-half injury scare to lead the Fever to a win and drop a double-double on the Dallas Wings. (Photo by Michael Hickey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Wings<\/a> entered the game shorthanded, with Azzi Fudd among those sidelined.<\/p>\n

Still, despite missing some serious firepower, Dallas kept things close.<\/p>\n

It started slowly, with both teams failing to put more than 20 points on the board in the first quarter, but the offense ramped up a touch in the second quarter, with the Wings taking a 37-35 lead to the locker room.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, it was at the very end of the first half that one of the most notable moments of the game occurred.<\/p>\n

Clark rolled her ankle while the Fever were on defense and, worse yet, hobbled off the court to the locker room.<\/p>\n

The Fever were hoping to take over first place in the Eastern Conference, and that would be tough in a close game without Clark.<\/p>\n

However, thousands of fans in the building breathed a sigh of relief when Clark started the second half and went on a roll.<\/p>\n

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The floodgates opened offensively, with Clark finishing the night with 29 points and 10 assists. Bueckers also scored 29 points for the Wings, adding six assists and six rebounds.<\/p>\n

\"Paige <\/p>\n

Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers finished the night with 29 points of her own. (Photo by A.J. Mast\/NBAE via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

But the Fever got an added scoring punch from Kelsey Mitchell \u2014 who finished with 23 points for a franchise-record 18th straight 20-point game \u2014 and Tyasha Harris, who went 4-for-4 from 3-point range, to pull away for a 98-87 win.<\/p>\n

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That gives the Fever first place in the East over the Atlanta Dream<\/a>, who, coincidentally, will host them on Sunday in a big game for the conference’s top spot.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever were back at the friendly confines of Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":855723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,6554,4019,10731,300794,4017,85,5941],"class_list":["post-855722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-dallas-wings","tag-indiana-fever","tag-outkick-sports","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855722","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=855722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}