{"id":27848,"date":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27848\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T22:09:07","slug":"mitchells-35-points-lift-fever-over-sky-as-clark-reese-sit-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/27848\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell’s 35 points lift Fever over Sky as Clark, Reese sit out"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO \u2014 Kelsey Mitchell hit seven three-pointers and scored 35 points and the Indiana Fever<\/a> defeated the Chicago Sky<\/a> 93-78 in a marquee matchup on Sunday that was missing stars\u00a0Caitlin Clark\u00a0and Angel Reese.<\/p>\n

Clark missed her fourth-straight game for Indiana with a groin injury and has only played in half of the team’s games and Reese was out for her second straight for the Sky with a back issue.<\/p>\n

Aliyah Boston had 14 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for the Fever (14-12), who have three double-figure wins over Chicago this season. Makayla Timpson had 14 points off the bench and Aari McDonald added 10.<\/p>\n

Mitchell had her 100th career 20-point game, second in franchise history behind Tamika Catchings, and her ninth 30-point game. She also picked up her 200th career steal and the Fever turned 23 turnovers into 31 points.<\/p>\n

Rachel Banham had six threes and 26 points for the Sky (7-18). Kia Nurse added 14 points, Rebecca Allen 13 and Kamilla Cardoso 12 with 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Fever had a 16 point lead early in the fourth quarter cut to six with less than five minutes to go but Mitchell responded with a three-pointer and a couple of free throws to end the threat.<\/p>\n

Indiana closed out the first quarter on an 18-2 run to lead 26-13. Mitchell had 13 points and the Fever had 14 points off nine Chicago turnovers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lead reached 16 points in the second quarter before the half ended at 51-39.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chicago got off to a quick start in the third quarter, pulling within 56-55 at the midway point on consecutive jumpers by Nurse. Mitchell responded with a three and a layup before consecutive baskets by Timpson pushed the lead to 65-55. Lexie Hull’s buzzer beater made it 75-61 entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Kelsey Mitchell hit seven three-pointers and scored 35 points and the Indiana Fever defeated the Chicago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-27848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848","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=27848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}