{"id":15213,"date":"2025-07-22T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15213\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:47:07","slug":"fevers-caitlin-clark-ruled-out-of-game-vs-liberty-due-to-groin-injury-after-missing-wnba-all-star-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/15213\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever&#8217;s Caitlin Clark ruled out of game vs. Liberty due to groin injury after missing WNBA All-Star festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Clark&#8217;s status remains in question as the second half of the WNBA season is set to begin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>After the WNBA All-Star festivities in Indiana, Fever coach Stephanie White said that there are no updates on Clark&#8217;s groin injury. She noted that Clark will meet with doctors on Monday, and she&#8217;ll travel to Brooklyn with the team for their game against the New York Liberty on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Clark, though, was officially ruled out of that contest on Monday afternoon \u2014 which is something that White had anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t expect her to be available on Tuesday,&#8221; White said. &#8220;We&#8217;re just going to continue to take it one day at a time and let her get her evaluations early this week. And once we have that, hopefully, we&#8217;ll have a clear mind on what that looks like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clark went down with a <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/breaking-news\/article\/caitlin-clark-aggravates-groin-injury-in-fever-win-over-sun-days-before-all-star-game-3-point-contest-in-indiana-021507373.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:groin injury;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">groin injury<\/a> in the Fever&#8217;s win over the Connecticut Sun on July 15. After helping the team establish a healthy lead, Clark was forced to exit the contest with under a minute to go in the fourth quarter. While the Fever secured an 85-77 win, White shared that Clark &#8220;felt a little something in her groin&#8221; before she frustratedly left the court.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Clark <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/breaking-news\/article\/caitlin-clark-out-vs-liberty-as-groin-injury-puts-all-star-status-in-doubt-181336132.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:missed their next game;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missed their next game <\/a>against New York, which the Liberty won 98-77, and she did not participate in the All-Star competitions in front of the Fever&#8217;s home crowd. Clark was named a 2025 WNBA All-Star captain and committed to play in the 3-point contest.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s Indiana teammate, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/caitlin-clark-replaced-fever-teammate-131603646.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lexie Hull;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lexie Hull<\/a>, replaced her in the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/article\/wnba-all-star-2025-best-moments-from-3-point-contest-skills-challenge-as-liberty-dominate-players-personalities-shine-024815093.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:3-point contest;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-point contest<\/a>, won by New York&#8217;s Sabrina Ionescu. She was <a data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/news\/2025-att-all-star-game-starting-lineup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:replaced;cpos:5;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">replaced<\/a> in the All-Star game by Fever teammate Kelsey Mitchell, instead performing coaching duties for Team Clark from the sideline as they fell to Napheesa Collier&#8217;s team, <a data-i13n=\"cpos:6;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/live\/wnba-all-star-2025-napheesa-collier-scores-record-36-points-in-blowout-of-caitlin-clarks-squad-230122249.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:151-131;cpos:6;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">151-131<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After staying injury-free through her time at Iowa and her first year in the W, Clark has missed 10 games this season due to groin and quad injuries. Earlier this season, Clark <a data-i13n=\"cpos:7;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/breaking-news\/article\/caitlin-clark-set-to-return-for-fever-against-liberty-on-saturday-after-missing-5-games-with-quad-injury-173435292.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:missed five games;cpos:7;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missed five games<\/a> due to a quad injury. After returning from her first groin strain, Clark is now dealing with a similar injury, having played in just 13 of the Fever&#8217;s 23 games.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is averaging 16.5 points and 8.8 assists per game, but she has struggled from beyond the arc, making just 27.5% of her attempts from deep \u2014 a career-low dating back to her time at Iowa. Her previous career-low shot percentage from 3 came as a sophomore with the Hawkeyes, where she <a data-i13n=\"cpos:8;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/caitlin-clark-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shot 33.2% from beyond the arc;cpos:8;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shot 33.2% from beyond the arc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Fever are third in the Eastern Conference and sixth in WNBA standings with a 12-11 record. The defending champions have moved to second in the league and first in the East with a 5-6 record. Indiana holds a 1-2 record against New York this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark&#8217;s status remains in question as the second half of the WNBA season is set to begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,735,48,3458,6003,2808,5904,4650,7086,729,3457,4644,82,2807,13583,630],"class_list":["post-15213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-fever","tag-groin-injury","tag-indiana","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-lexie-hull","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-stephanie-white","tag-the-fever","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}