The New York Liberty will have Jonquel Jones back in the lineup on Tuesday when they host the Indiana Fever, who again will be without Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n
Jones, a former WNBA MVP and the reigning Finals MVP, missed the past nine games due to a right ankle injury, but she wasn\u2019t listed Monday on the Liberty\u2019s injury report ahead of the Tuesday contest.<\/p>\n
Clark, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year, missed the Fever\u2019s most recent game plus the All-Star Game on Sunday because of a right groin ailment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think (Clark is) progressing,\u201d Indiana coach Stephanie White said on Monday. \u201cI think that we\u2019re continuing to address everything that needs to be addressed. \u2026 We\u2019re just going to continue to take it one day at a time and let her get her evaluations early this week, and then once we\u2019ve done that hopefully we\u2019ll have more of a clear (view) of what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Including the time she previously missed due to injuries to her left quadriceps and left groin, Clark will be absent from a 12th game this season. That total factors in the Commissioner\u2019s Cup final, which doesn\u2019t count in the regular-season standings.<\/p>\n
The Liberty were 10-1 when Jones got hurt early in their June 19 game against the Phoenix Mercury. New York lost that game to kick off a 5-5 stretch, though the team has won its past three contests.<\/p>\n
Jones, 31, is averaging 12.1 points, 9.6 rebounds and 2.3 assists through nine games this season. She is a five-time All-Star.<\/p>\n
Clark, 23, is putting up 16.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 8.8 assists through 13 games in her second consecutive All-Star campaign.<\/p>\n
Just before the All-Star break, the Liberty beat the visiting Fever 98-77 on Wednesday behind 24 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists from Breanna Stewart. Kelsey Mitchell paced Indiana with 16 points.<\/p>\n
\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty will have Jonquel Jones back in the lineup on Tuesday when they host the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-27708","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\/27708","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=27708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}