INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 The wait for Caitlin Clark\u2019s return to the court continues.<\/p>\n
The Indiana Fever officially ruled the WNBA All-Star out for Sunday\u2019s game against the Golden State Valkyries as she continues to rehab from her right groin injury. Clark hasn\u2019t played since July 15.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, head coach Stephanie White said Clark will need multiple practices before returning to the Fever\u2019s starting lineup. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to see her live in practice,\u201d White said on what she needs to see from Clark before her return. \u201cI want to see her continue to work to not just build endurance but to be able to handle contact 94 feet as it\u2019s going to be in-game and to be able to do that and to sustain from an endurance standpoint. That\u2019s going to take multiple practices to make sure there\u2019s no regression.\u201d<\/p>\n
White said a couple weeks ago that she hoped to have Clark back before the end of the regular season. Now, the Fever have only five games left before the playoffs. <\/p>\n
White clarified Tuesday that Clark doesn\u2019t necessarily have to participate in multiple team practices to prove her endurance. \u201cBeing able to put together 3s, 4s and different things that we can go against and matchup with\u201d is what White said could be used instead of those few team practices that remain.<\/p>\n
Sunday will be the 27th regular season game that Clark will miss this season. She also missed the Fever\u2019s win in the Commissioner\u2019s Cup championship game, as well as the All-Star Game and Three-Point Contest during All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
Clark has averaged 16.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 8.8 assists per game in 13 games played this season.<\/p>\n
Clark has also dealt with a left quad injury and a left groin injury this season.<\/p>\n
The Fever are 8-5 with Clark this season and 13-13 without her during the regular season. The Fever also beat the Minnesota Lynx without Clark to win the Commissioner\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n
The Fever (21-18) are 6th in the WNBA standings, one game ahead of the current eight seed Valkyries.<\/p>\n
Indiana tips off against Golden State in San Francisco at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) \u2014 The wait for Caitlin Clark\u2019s return to the court continues. The Indiana Fever officially ruled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-121962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}