{"id":416743,"date":"2026-01-18T05:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416743\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:05:15","slug":"fever-make-first-ever-announcement-on-kelsey-mitchell-amid-wnba-offseason-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416743\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever Make ‘First-Ever’ Announcement on Kelsey Mitchell Amid WNBA Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelsey Mitchell was the driving force for the Indiana Fever<\/a> during the 2025 WNBA<\/a> season. The 5-foot-8 guard played all 44 games in the regular season, averaging a career-high 20.2 points on 45.6% shooting, 1.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 31.4 minutes per contest. Mitchell also knocked down 2.5 triples per game on a 39.4% clip.<\/p>\n

Mitchell had to carry a significant load amid the Fever’s injury crisis. Star guard Caitlin Clark<\/a> was limited to just 13 games before being ruled out for the latter part of the season with a groin injury. Sophie Cunningham<\/a> and three other players also suffered season-ending injuries before the WNBA playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Indiana Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell looks on before Game 3 of the WNBA semifinals against the Las Vegas Aces.\u00a9 Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

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Mitchell led the Fever to the playoffs for the second straight season. They defeated the Atlanta Dream in the first round. However, they were eliminated in the semis after a tough five-game series against the eventual champions, the Las Vegas Aces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mitchell was unable to finish out the Aces series. She suffered an injury<\/a> in Game 5 and did not return. The 30-year-old was rushed to a nearby hospital and later diagnosed with rhabdomyolysis, a muscle condition associated with overfatigue.<\/p>\n

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In a social media post, the Fever star described her injury as “numbness\/paralyzing feeling with no movement from my lower extremities <\/a>for up to 5 to 7 seconds.”<\/p>\n

Mitchell has since recovered from her troubling injury. The three-time All-Star has returned to the court amid the WNBA offseason. She is playing in the second season of Unrivaled, an independent 3-on-3 league.<\/p>\n

Mitchell’s campaign at Unrivaled has been off to a rough start. She is part of Hive Basketball Club, an expansion team playing in its inaugural season. The Hive were 0-3 entering Friday’s game against Rose BC, the league’s defending champion.<\/p>\n

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Mitchell went off in the contest, leading Hive to its first-ever win. She dropped a team-high 24 points on 11-of-17 shooting with two 3-pointers. The All-WNBA guard also scored the game-winning basket to lead her team to a 78-75 victory. It was Rose BC’s first loss of the season and ruined a 36-point night from Rose’s Chelsea Gray.<\/p>\n

The Fever took to social media to announce Mitchell’s latest milestone.<\/p>\n

“Kelsey Mitchell scored the game-winning bucket for Team Hive\u2019s first-ever win \ud83d\udc1d\ud83d\udd25” the team posted on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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Despite improving to 1-3, Mitchell and the Hive are still seventh out of eight teams in the Unrivaled league. They play again at 8:45 p.m. ET Sunday against Phantom Basketball Club, which features Mitchell’s Indiana teammate Aliyah Boston<\/a>, on truTV.<\/p>\n

Mitchell’s contract with the Fever has expired. She will become an unrestricted free agent once the window officially opens on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n

Related: Caitlin Clark Reacts After Being Left Out in Fever Post<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jan 17, 2026, where it first appeared in the WNBA<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsey Mitchell was the driving force for the Indiana Fever during the 2025 WNBA season. The 5-foot-8 guard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4655,732,49,735,48,12199,6003,2803,4650,1483,3460,10879,82,630,26214],"class_list":["post-416743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-chelsea-gray","tag-fever","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-las-vegas","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416743","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=416743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}