{"id":30839,"date":"2025-07-23T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30839\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:56:10","slug":"caitlin-clark-sidelined-again-with-groin-injury-sabrina-ionescu-shares-her-advice-from-similar-early-career-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30839\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark sidelined again with groin injury; Sabrina Ionescu shares her advice from similar early-career struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Caitlin Clark was the top vote getter in each of her first two seasons in the WNBA. (Photo: Ryan May\/800 Meter)<\/p>\n

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark traveled with the team to New York, but will not play in Tuesday\u2019s featured game against the Liberty on ESPN.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s just three days after All-Star break \u2014\u00a0and these two high-profile teams are meeting again, just as they did less than a week ago in the final game before All-Star \u201cbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t much of a break at all, especially for those in the host city. Fever head coach Stephanie White held practice late Sunday with most of the team; the three All-Stars were given the day off and encouraged to catch up on rest.<\/p>\n

Clark was at practice on Monday, but did not participate. She suffered an injury to her right groin (the other side) less than one week ago against the Connecticut Sun. So now she\u2019s out again \u2014\u00a0and in the process of getting additional medical advice from doctors across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we’re continuing to address everything that needs to be addressed,\u201d White said after practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\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’ve done that, hopefully we’ll have more of a clear line of what it looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Clark, it\u2019s been one thing after the next. You could see the emotions \u2014 and the build up \u2014\u00a0pour out of her last week playing in the TD Garden. She came up holding her right groin area after making a simple (for her) pass for a layup backdoor.<\/p>\n

Simple things are not so simple for her right now.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s dealt with multiple injuries going back late April and the first week of training camp. That was almost three months ago.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, before the All-Star game where she went from Captain Clark to Coach C, I asked her about the range of the emotions and what she\u2019s feeling after sustaining yet another soft-tissue injury.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Team captains Napheesa Collier and Caitlin Clark talked at a pre-game press conference. (Photo: Ryan May\/800 Meter)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think when the injury happened it was pretty frustrating considering I knew what the coming days were going to hold for myself,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark was the top vote getter in each of her first two seasons in the WNBA. (Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-30839","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\/30839","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=30839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}