{"id":288035,"date":"2025-11-17T03:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288035\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T03:19:09","slug":"congratulations-pour-in-for-indiana-fever-star-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/288035\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Pour In for Indiana Fever Star on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/natasha_howard\/927510\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Howard<\/a> and the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/indiana_fever\/17260\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana Fever<\/a> were one of the more surprising stories of the 2025 WNBA playoffs. After finishing the regular season 24\u201320, the Fever earned the No. 6 seed and upset the third-seeded Atlanta Dream in the first round. They then pushed the No. 2 seed Las Vegas Aces to five games, all without several key players, including Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. <\/p>\n<p>Howard had a solid season in her return to the Fever, the team with which she began her WNBA career. Starting all 44 regular-season games, the former WNBA Defensive Player of the Year averaged 11.4 points on a career-high 55.2% shooting, along with 6.6 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natasha Howard and the Indiana Fever were one of the more surprising stories of the 2025 WNBA playoffs.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-288035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288035","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=288035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}