{"id":193817,"date":"2025-10-01T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/193817\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:36:07","slug":"fevers-kelsey-mitchell-sustains-apparent-leg-injury-in-game-5-of-semifinal-series-vs-aces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/193817\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever&#8217;s Kelsey Mitchell sustains apparent leg injury in Game 5 of semifinal series vs. Aces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell suffered an apparent left leg injury in the third quarter of Tuesday night&#8217;s decisive Game 5 of the WNBA semifinal series against the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell seemed to sustain the non-contact injury with 5:05 left in the period. Her teammates quickly surrounded her, giving Mitchell privacy. She lay on the court for at least five minutes. A stretcher was brought out, but Mitchell left the floor without it and was helped to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell has been the Fever&#8217;s top player this postseason, averaging 23.3 points on a team decimated by injuries. They entered this game without six players, including star Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell scored 15 points, making all three 3-pointers, before leaving the game. She averaged 20.2 points in the regular season and was a finalist for WNBA MVP.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of Tuesday&#8217;s game advances to the WNBA Finals against Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Indiana Fever star Kelsey Mitchell suffered an apparent left leg injury in the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,2839,4806,4677,99,434],"class_list":["post-193817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-indiana-fever","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193817","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=193817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}