{"id":948432,"date":"2026-10-27T18:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948432\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:12:14","slug":"fever-predicted-to-draft-relentless-rebounder-to-help-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/948432\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever predicted to draft &#8216;relentless&#8217; rebounder to help Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Fever needs size, toughness and rebounding in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a franchise-record 28-win season in 2026 &#8212; which included a scorching run of performances from Caitlin Clark in the second half of the year &#8212; the Fever suffered a first round playoff exit to the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana&#8217;s defense continues to come under scrutiny, and it is feasible to think head coach Stephanie White &#8212; and whomever the franchise hires as its next general manager &#8212; will try to address that side of the ball in April&#8217;s WNBA draft.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/news\/nancy-lieberman-gives-caitlin-clark-reminder-every-athlete-needs\/c833906a26903c9a890ee2dd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nancy Lieberman gives Caitlin Clark a reminder every athlete needs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the college basketball season set to get underway, ESPN&#8217;s 2027 mock draft published Tuesday predicted that the Fever would select the &#8220;relentless&#8221; Khamil Pierre with the 10th overall pick.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Soon we will turn our attention to the college game&#8217;s top talent that could be headed to the WNBA next year \ud83d\udc40 1\ufe0f\u20e3 JuJu Watkins 2\ufe0f\u20e3 Madison Booker 3\ufe0f\u20e3 Hannah Hidalgo Full 2027 mock draft \u2935\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/pS9TuzXWHY<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 espnW (@espnW) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/espnW\/status\/2115119538626773198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 27, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Pierre, entering her senior year at North Carolina State, led the ACC in rebounding last season &#8212; and set a program record &#8212; at 11.9 boards per game. ESPN&#8217;s Michael Voepel describes 6&#8217;2&#8221; forward as &#8220;relentless&#8221; in the paint, though she doesn&#8217;t space the floor as a three-point shooter.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pierre is money in the restricted area. The Vanderbilt transfer shot 52.5 percent from the floor in 2025-26 and averaged 16.7 points as the Wolfpack reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Two words: Khamil Pierre \ud83e\udee3 https:\/\/t.co\/eyTePw4fr4<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NC State WBB \ud83d\udc3a\ud83c\udfc0 (@PackWomensBball) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PackWomensBball\/status\/2112178723101540666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 19, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Pierre would add size and rebounding instinct on the interior in Indiana, while the Fever should have enough options to cover for her as a non-shooter.<\/p>\n<p>More WNBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever needs size, toughness and rebounding in 2027. Despite a franchise-record 28-win season in 2026 &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-948432","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\/948432","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=948432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}