{"id":426815,"date":"2026-01-22T23:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T23:01:11","slug":"caitlin-clark-got-a-special-treat-from-the-fever-on-her-24th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/426815\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark got a special treat from the Fever on her 24th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Fever probably ensured that Caitlin Clark&#8217;s 24th birthday is one she won&#8217;t forget.<\/p>\n<p>At Gainbridge Fieldhouse, where she got in some reps on her birthday, Clark stepped off the practice court and was greeted with a surprise serenade &#8212; not to mention, a cookie cake baked in the shape of &#8220;22.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/news\/paige-bueckers-reveals-fever-star-toughest-guard-caitlin-clark\/54f253377ea5c18f45f9fab1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paige Bueckers reveals Fever star who is &#8216;toughest&#8217; to guard, and it isn&#8217;t Caitlin Clark<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got my germs everywhere,&#8221; Clark joked as she blew out her candles.<\/p>\n<p>The gesture reinforces Clark&#8217;s importance to the Fever franchise, which has stood by the superstar guard after her injury-plagued 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">a birthday surprise and serenade for Caitlin Clark \ud83e\udd70 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7UtYAAgtV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/V7UtYAAgtV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/2014429217795035619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Clark played only 13 games in her second WNBA season, right after she was named the league&#8217;s Rookie of the Year and placed fourth in MVP voting while ending the Fever&#8217;s eight-year playoff drought in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Fever made a surprise run to the WNBA semifinals without the injured Clark, Sophie Cunningham and others in 2025, Indiana cannot wait to get a healthy Clark back on the court for the coming season.<\/p>\n<p>As she turns 24, Clark stands to compete for a WNBA championship and make her USA Basketball debut in 2026, when she could merit selection to the national team for the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup in September.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA news:<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever probably ensured that Caitlin Clark&#8217;s 24th birthday is one she won&#8217;t forget. At Gainbridge Fieldhouse,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-426815","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\/426815","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=426815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}