In a game that Caitlin Clark exited from<\/a> in the third quarter and did not return, the Fever wound up watching an eight-point lead morph into a frustrating 111-109 loss against the lowly Phoenix Mercury (6-13). Clark departed with a back injury against the Mercury and has been ruled out of Saturday’s contest against the Sparks<\/a>.<\/p>\n It will mark the second game missed due to injury on the season for Clark. The third-year pro also missed Indiana’s May 20 date against the Portland Fire.<\/p>\n Watch Indiana Fever vs. Los Angeles Sparks<\/a><\/p>\n With Clark out, the Fever will need to lean on its other two All-Stars\u2014center Aliyah Boston and guard Kelsey Mitchell\u2014in order to top the Sparks for the second time this season. As tipoff nears, here’s where Fever fans can watch:<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>How to watch Indiana Fever vs. Los Angeles Sparks Contact\/Follow us\u00a0@HawkeyesWire<\/a>\u00a0on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to follow ongoing coverage of Iowa news, notes and opinions.\u00a0Follow Josh on X:\u00a0@JoshOnHawks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated June 27, 2026, 3:47 p.m. CT After a disappointing loss on Wednesday night, the Indiana Fever (10-8)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[243,48,52,51,47,50,49,133273,66442,55348,509,5727,27434,131357,11559,2717,22201,48406,131356,42342,40751,66443,130098,131365,7852,116128,379,25943,152885,9203,131921,377,152886,152884,11655,11656,255,53401,7193,246],"class_list":["post-377639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accessfree","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-sourcehawkeyes-wire","tag-sstssportscollegehawkeyeswomens-basketball","tag-sstsnwomens-basketball","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbig-10-hub","tag-tagbig-ten-conference-womens-basketball","tag-tagcaitlin-clark","tag-tagcbs-corp","tag-tagcontains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagindiana","tag-tagindiana-fever","tag-tagiowa","tag-tagiowa-hawkeyes","tag-tagiowa-hawkeyes-womens-basketball","tag-tagkate-martin","tag-tagkelsey-mitchell","tag-taglocal-affiliate-arts-entertainment","tag-taglos-angeles-sparks","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagncaa-big-ten-conference","tag-tagparamount","tag-tagsmg-timely","tag-tagsophie-cunningham","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagstephanie-white","tag-tagtv-video","tag-tagtv-guides-reference","tag-tagtv-networks-stations","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tagwnba","tag-tagwomens-sports","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90688845007-usatsi-29265117.jpg\")