{"id":457540,"date":"2026-02-09T03:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457540\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T03:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T03:27:08","slug":"caitlin-clark-still-hitting-game-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/457540\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark still hitting game winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA has missed Caitlin Clark, with injuries costing the phenom the overwhelming majority of her 2025 season, including Indiana\u2019s WNBA semifinals playoff run. Clark previously spoke about <a href=\"https:\/\/thecomeback.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-feels-responsibility-to-play.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how hard it was to miss so much time.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard, because obviously I do feel this responsibility of being out there and playing,\u201d she said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-responsibility-get-healthy.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during an appearance on WNBA legend Sue Bird\u2019s\u00a0Bird\u2019s Eye View\u00a0podcast<\/a>, according to Awful Announcing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd not that I think there\u2019s a fear of any of this going away. That doesn\u2019t happen when like, LeBron or Steph get hurt. [Fans] are always going to be there,\u201d Clark added.\u201dBut you do want to play, you want to give people something to cheer about or scream about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople spend so much time, and money, and resources to come and watch you play. And it\u2019s been cool to see people continue to show up for my teammates, whether they\u2019re fans of the Fever just fans of myself, they\u2019re continuing to show up and support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Clark and her fans all over the country, she\u2019s back in action. In December, Clark got some action with the WNBA\u2019s top stars as <a href=\"https:\/\/thecomeback.com\/wnba\/three-exciting-clips-from-team-usas-first-practice.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the US women\u2019s basketball team held its first camp practice<\/a> in preparation for March\u2019s upcoming 2026 FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Signature  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaitlinClark22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CaitlinClark22<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USABWNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#USABWNT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wCwPUD3dbu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wCwPUD3dbu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 USA Basketball (@usabasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usabasketball\/status\/1999531747516481920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Camp is ended, but Clark is still honing her craft ahead of the 2026 campaign. A clip is going viral of the former Rookie of the Year hitting the game-winning shot in a scrimmage at the Fever\u2019s practice facility.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Game winning shot at 5-5 today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaitlinClark22?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CaitlinClark22<\/a> \ud83d\udc40\ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a7TcxzMCXw\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/a7TcxzMCXw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bri Lewerke (@brilewerke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brilewerke\/status\/2019934156453544198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clark is looking healthy and poised to return to her All-Pro form this season. If she can stay healthy this season, there\u2019s no reason she can\u2019t lead to the Fever to the finals this season after they came within an overtime period of reaching without her in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA has missed Caitlin Clark, with injuries costing the phenom the overwhelming majority of her 2025 season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,2839,99,434],"class_list":["post-457540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-indiana-fever","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457540","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=457540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}