Indiana Fever guard Lexie Hull believes other WNBA players feel “a level jealousy” towards Caitlin Clark and her teammates because of all the attention Clark receives.
“[T]here is a level of jealousy when it comes to the Fever, just because of the media attention and the fans that have shown up for us ever since Caitlin got here,” Hull, who averaged 7.2 points and 4.3 rebounds this past season, told Glamour magazine.
“We’ve heard people and players and teams talking in their locker room about, ‘We can’t let the Fever win.’”
Of course, opponents of the Fever presumably want to win all of their games, not just the ones against Indiana.
Clark, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA season, won the WNBA Rookie of the Year and made the All-WNBA First-Team and All-Star Game that year. She set league single-season and single-game records in assists, broke the rookie scoring record, and became the first rookie to achieve a triple-double.
Clark, 23, played in just 13 games this season before shutting it down in July due to a right groin injury and a bone bruise, but she is expected to be fully healthy for the start of the 2026 season.
Without her, the Fever lost in five games in the WNBA playoffs to the eventual champion Las Vegas Aces.
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