{"id":627897,"date":"2026-04-25T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627897\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:52:09","slug":"is-caitlin-clark-playing-today-fever-stars-injury-status-vs-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627897\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Caitlin Clark playing today? Fever star&#8217;s injury status vs Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty square off Saturday afternoon in the first preseason meeting for both teams as tune-ups continue before the 2026 WNBA regular season begins.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever will not be at full strength just yet, two weeks before the start of the regular season. Indiana already has published its injury report for Saturday&#8217;s contest at Barclays Center, which confirmed that Aliyah Boston, one of the Fever&#8217;s three All-Stars, will not be available as she manages a lower leg injury.<\/p>\n<p>But notably not appearing on the injury report are Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell, both of whom are set for some minutes in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Clark is expected to play against the Liberty<\/p>\n<p>Clark is set for her first WNBA action &#8212; even in an unofficial capacity &#8212; since July 15, 2025, when she suffered the groin strain that eventually ended her second pro season.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Status Report for tomorrow&#8217;s game at New York:<\/p>\n<p>Aliyah Boston &#8211; Out (lower leg)<br \/>Damiris Dantas \u2013 NWT<br \/>Ty Harris &#8211; Out (knee)<br \/>Lexie Hull \u2013 Out (hamstring) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2F0x9ktuTl\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2F0x9ktuTl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/2047784183926280380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 24, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Clark was limited to 13 games in 2025 as she dealt with multiple nagging injuries. The Fever never wanted to jeopardize Clark&#8217;s long-term health and shut her down for the season on Sept. 4. Indiana eventually went on a surprise run to the WNBA semifinals, where it lost to the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a new season, and Clark returns to the court amid championship hype for the Fever. Fans will get their first look at Clark since the FIBA Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifying tournament last month beginning at 3 p.m. ET, when the Fever tip off against another anticipated title contender in the Liberty.<\/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 and the New York Liberty square off Saturday afternoon in the first preseason meeting for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-627897","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\/627897","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=627897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}