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With Caitlin Clark still out and season-ending injuries to other point guards, the Indiana Fever signed Kyra Lambert to provide depth at the position.

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Fever announced Thursday they have signed Kyra Lambert to a seven-day contract. The Fever qualify for the roster spot due to the season-ending injuries to Sydney Colson and Aari McDonald.  

Caitlin Clark remains out with a right groin injury and Colson and McDonald’s injuries left the Fever without a healthy point guard. The team signed Odyssey Sims to a hardship contract last week to help ease some of the point guard depth concerns.

Lambert, a 5-9 point guard, has spent most of her professional career in Europe, spending time in Greece, France (Toulouse), Latvia (TTT Riga), New Zealand (Whai), Slovakia (Slavia Banska Bystrica) and Turkey (Karsiyaka). She won the Greek A1 League with Olympiacos this past season, averaging 15.4 points on 42.1% shooting, 6.2 assists and 1.5 steals.

Lambert spent five seasons at Duke, where she totaled 630 points and 245 assists over 95 games. She tore her ACL in the first round of the 2017 NCAA tournament as a sophomore, an injury which sidelined her for the entirety of her junior campaign. She returned for the 2018-19 campaign and was recognized as a preseason candidate for the Nancy Lieberman Award (top point guard), but suffered another torn ACL during the preseason. 

Lambert returned from that second tear and started in 21 of 30 games as a graduate student, averaging 5.8 points, 3.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.2 steals. She finished her career at Texas, where she averaged seven points and 3.1 assists over 29 games. 

Lambert will wear No. 15 for the Fever.

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