{"id":46710,"date":"2025-08-05T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46710\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:11","slug":"despite-caitlin-clark-injury-indiana-fever-climb-the-wnba-standings-with-fifth-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/46710\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Caitlin Clark Injury, Indiana Fever Climb the WNBA Standings with Fifth Straight Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 5 Indiana Fever rattled off a fifth straight win over the weekend, rolling through opponents to sit five games above .500 for the first time in 10 years \u2014\u00a0all while superstar guard Caitlin Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM0o-iLyl8a\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">remains stuck on the sidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a group that&#8217;s been resilient all season long,&#8221; Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White said following the Fever&#8217;s fourth win in a row \u2014 an 88-78 victory over the No. 11 Dallas Wings on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Sunday, the Fever added a close 78-74 road victory over the No. 6 Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we don&#8217;t like it, sometimes it can be a blessing in disguise,&#8221; White added, referencing Clark&#8217;s prolonged absence due to an ongoing groin injury. &#8220;Because everybody else finds themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to push up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnba.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WNBA standings<\/a> this week, Indiana is currently sitting just a half-game behind the No. 4 Phoenix Mercury \u2014 who lost ground by falling 95-72 to the No. 3 Atlanta Dream on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Mercury All-Star Satou Sabally exited the court in the second half of Friday&#8217;s loss, with Phoenix head coach Nate Tibbets later telling reporters, &#8220;She didn&#8217;t bring the energy that we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the Storm and No. 7 Las Vegas Aces found themselves in a holding pattern over the weekend, with Seattle dropping two tight matchups while Las Vegas bounced back from Saturday&#8217;s record-setting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DM3gOJ0SFyf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">53-point blowout loss<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/top-scorers-napheesa-collier-and-aja-wilson-square-off-in-wnba-headliner-how-to-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No. 1 Minnesota Lynx<\/a> with a 101-77 drubbing of the No. 8 Golden State Valkyries on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Staring down the back-half of the 2025 WNBA season, teams crowded at the top of the table are starting to separate themselves from the pack \u2014 though they&#8217;re not necessarily the squads that fans may expect.<\/p>\n<p>  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 5 Indiana Fever rattled off a fifth straight win over the weekend, rolling through opponents to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[32560,732,49,735,48,3459,1612,2803,3460,736,32561,3461,4659,1611,82,2807,630,32562,32563],"class_list":["post-46710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2025-wnba-season","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-dallas-wings","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-indiana-fever","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-nate-tibbetts","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-satou-sabally","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-stephanie-white","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-injuries","tag-wnba-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710","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=46710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}