INDIANAPOLIS — Aliyah Boston isn’t sure when her pregame ritual with Caitlin Clark began. But for the past few years, the Indiana Fever stars have started each contest the same way, sitting side by side on the bench and telling each other, “You’re going to be amazing because you are amazing.”

Thursday night, that message proved prophetic, as the dynamic duo steered the Fever to a 114-106 overtime victory over the Chicago Sky in a back-and-forth contest. Indiana squandered a 19-point second-quarter lead, and Sky guard Skylar Diggins sent the game to OT with a last-second 3-pointer. The Fever held on thanks to the Herculean efforts of Clark and Boston, who became the first teammates in WNBA history to record 30-point double-doubles in the same game.

“We’re good friends. That always helps,” said Clark, describing her chemistry with Boston. “Yeah, you can be teammates and play basketball. But if you really care for each other and love each other off the court … that helps because when you’re on the court, you’re gonna go through moments of adversity. That’s just basketball, and that’s what helps you get through.”

Fever coach Stephanie White was in awe of the dominance displayed by Clark and Boston. White, 48, is in her 14th season as a WNBA coach (sixth as a head coach) and spent six years in the league as a player. Tandems such as Clark and Boston don’t come around very often, she said, which explains why they’ve continued to rewrite history individually and collectively.

“I don’t know that I can put it in perspective in terms of quantifying it, especially because they’re so young,” White said. “But they’re elite at what they do. … I think I said this when (Clark) was drafted here: It’s like when you have the bookends, when you have a point guard and you have a center that are special, you can build a team around that.”

Clark led the way for the Fever with a season-high-tying 32 points, plus 10 assists and seven rebounds. She drilled all 15 of her free-throw attempts, the most without a miss in a single game in WNBA history. She also registered her seventh 30-point game, the third most in Fever history behind teammate Kelsey Mitchell (12) and Hall of Famer Tamika Catchings (10).

double-double duo 🔥🔥

tonight Aliyah Boston (34 PTS & 12 REB) and Caitlin Clark (32 PTS & 10 AST) became the first teammates in @WNBA history to have 30-point double-doubles in the same game 😮‍💨

make them All-Stars ✨ https://t.co/0JPFA3r5GL pic.twitter.com/Yu1EE3qLcc

— Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) June 12, 2026

What’s more, Clark notched her second game this season and third of her career with at least 30 points and 10 assists. No other player in WNBA history has more than one.

Not to be outdone, Boston totaled a career-high 34 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks. The 6-foot-5 center now has two games with at least 30 points and 10 rebounds, the second most in franchise history. (Catchings had three.)

“I think it was just my mindset of trying to attack,” said Boston, who credited Clark for constantly drawing the Sky’s defensive attention. “They have pretty long bigs, so for me, just trying to find different ways to score around the basket. Obviously, I missed some super-easy bunnies at the rim, but I think it helped knocking down two 3s to start early in the game. I was kind of able to just attack differently after that.”

The All-Star duo of Boston and Clark combined for 12 of the Fever’s 16 overtime points to secure a second straight win and improve to 7-5 on the season. Chicago fell to 4-9 and has lost three games in a row and eight of its last nine.

The Sky didn’t go down without a fight, though, and Diggins gave the Fever a scare. After Mitchell turned the ball over with 5.1 seconds left, with the Fever clinging to a 3-point lead, White said her team was supposed to foul but didn’t. Instead, Diggins, a seven-time All-Star, was able to get a clean look to force OT.

“That’s probably something we worked on a lot in training camp, and with game planning recently, we haven’t worked on probably as much of that situation as we needed to,” White said. “We talked about it as a staff, and then you gotta trust that you can go out there and execute it.”

White added that the Fever have plenty more mistakes to clean up. The list includes a third quarter in which she and Clark each received technical fouls for arguing with the officials. The Fever surrendered 39 points in the frame, the most they’ve allowed in any quarter this season. Sky guard Sydney Taylor caught fire for 16 points in the period to give Chicago a 6-point lead heading into the fourth quarter. Taylor, an undrafted rookie out of Louisville, entered Thursday’s contest averaging just 7.4 points and hadn’t scored in Chicago’s previous two contests. She finished with a team-high 30 points on 10-of-14 shooting in 21 minutes.

Diggins put on a show as well, scoring 7 fourth-quarter points to send the game into overtime. Her clutch 3-pointer nearly spoiled the synergy of Boston and Clark, but when the game hung in the balance, the Fever’s franchise pillars went to a level no other duo in league history has been able to reach.

“I feel like I always know where Aliyah is,” said Clark, who dished eight of her 10 assists to Boston for 18 points. “I think we got a little bit of telepathy now.”