{"id":52104,"date":"2025-08-07T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52104\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:23:06","slug":"is-caitlin-clark-playing-today-injury-status-for-fever-vs-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/52104\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Caitlin Clark playing today? Injury status for Fever vs. Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark is not expected to play on Thursday against the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Clark has missed eight consecutive games due to a right groin injury suffered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/2025\/07\/15\/fever-sun-caitlin-clark-tv-channel-time-results-wnba\/85209512007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fever&#039;s win over the Connecticut Sun on July 15;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fever&#8217;s win over the Connecticut Sun on July 15<\/a>. There&#8217;s still no official timetable for her return, but she continues to travel with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>She was seen at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles as the Fever lost 100-91 to the Sparks on Tuesday. The loss snapped Indiana&#8217;s five-game win streak.<\/p>\n<p>Clark underwent additional medical evaluations late last month, but the results showed &#8220;no additional injuries or damage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s dealt with multiple injuries this season that have kept her out of action. She was previously sidelined for five games due to a left quad injury and four games with a left groin injury. Clark also missed the Fever&#8217;s Commissioner&#8217;s Cup win and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/caitlin-clark-miss-wnba-star-172134813.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 WNBA All-Star Game and 3-point competition;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 WNBA All-Star Game and 3-point competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will Caitlin Clark play today? Injury update for Fever-Mercury<\/p>\n<p>No, Clark is not expected to play. She was not listed as a probable starter for Thursday&#8217;s game <a href=\"https:\/\/fever.wnba.com\/news\/game-preview-fever-mercury-250807\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:on the team&#039;s website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on the team&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/wnba\/fever\/2025\/08\/07\/caitlin-clark-injury-status-update-fever-mercury\/85552800007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Caitlin Clark injury update: Status for Fever-Mercury game;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Caitlin Clark injury update: Status for Fever-Mercury game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark is not expected to play on Thursday against the Phoenix Mercury. Clark has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,735,48,3458,2808,2803,1522,3461,82,630],"class_list":["post-52104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-groin-injury","tag-indiana-fever","tag-los-angeles","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52104","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=52104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}