{"id":96566,"date":"2025-08-25T19:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96566\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T19:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T19:26:05","slug":"fever-sign-aerial-powers-to-7-day-contract-for-needed-depth-at-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96566\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever sign Aerial Powers to 7-day contract for needed depth at wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS \u2013 The Indiana Fever<\/a> have signed nine-year WNBA veteran Aerial Powers to a seven-day contract for some much-needed depth at wing.<\/p>\n

The Fever were down to one wing on Friday, as Sophie Cunningham suffered a season-ending MCL tear<\/a> on Sunday and Chloe Bibby was ruled out pregame<\/a> with a left knee injury as a precaution after she “felt something” pregame.<\/p>\n

Lexie Hull stepped up<\/a>, playing 38 minutes and scoring a career-high 23 points in the 95-90 loss to Minnesota<\/a>, but those kinds of minutes aren’t sustainable over multiple games.<\/p>\n

Powers signed on to give the Fever depth at the 3 position. Powers, the No. 5 pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft, averaged 10.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists over the course of her WNBA career. She won a championship with the Washington Mystics in 2019 and spent time with Dallas, Minnesota and Atlanta.<\/p>\n

She most recently played for Golden State, appearing in two games while the Valkyries were missing multiple players due to overseas commitments.<\/p>\n

Powers will be available Sunday as the team heads to Minnesota, wearing No. 23 for the Fever.<\/p>\n

The Fever, who have had a host of bad luck on the injury front, were approved for a third hardship waiver in order to sign Powers to a seven-day contract. Indiana has three players out for the season, including Cunningham, Sydney Colson (left ACL) and Aari McDonald (right foot)<\/a>. Star guard Caitlin Clark has also been out for an extended amount of time, missing over a month so far with a right groin injury.<\/p>\n

Indiana has three players signed on hardship waivers , with Powers joining Odyssey Sims and Shey Peddy. Sims’ status, too, is up in the air after she suffered an injury during Friday night’s game<\/a> against Minnesota. She seemed to tweak something while going up for a layup in the fourth quarter, then called for a sub and limped off the court and straight back to the locker room.<\/p>\n

Coach Stephanie White didn’t have a status update on Sims postgame, saying she would get evaluated on Saturday. Bibby will also be evaluated Saturday after her late scratch from the game.<\/p>\n

Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at capeterson@gannett.com or follow her on X at\u00a0@chloepeterson67<\/a>. Get IndyStar’s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our\u00a0Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2013 The Indiana Fever have signed nine-year WNBA veteran Aerial Powers to a seven-day contract for some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[29594,21316,461,49,7075,735,48,7076,551,543,38043,10877,6003,10230,1612,7078,2000,5904,2803,3844,7077,7086,29595,2598,8454,2034,44,1333,2042,10876,10879,82,865,1426,1856,12194,10231,3642,737,630,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-96566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aari","tag-aari-mcdonald","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-caitlin","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-clark","tag-college","tag-college-sports","tag-colson","tag-cunningham","tag-fever","tag-golden","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-hull","tag-in","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-indianapolis","tag-lexie","tag-lexie-hull","tag-mcdonald","tag-minnesota","tag-mystics","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-sophie","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-state","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-colson","tag-valkyries","tag-washington","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96566","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=96566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}