{"id":497978,"date":"2026-03-01T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497978\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:01:09","slug":"indiana-fever-star-ruled-out-for-unrivaled-season-with-injury-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/497978\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever star ruled out for Unrivaled season with injury. What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/search\/?q=aliyah+boston\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aliyah Boston;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aliyah Boston<\/a> has been ruled out for the remainder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrivaled.basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Unrivaled;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Unrivaled<\/a> season due to a lower right extremity injury, the 3&#215;3 league announced Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Boston left Phantom BC&#8217;s final regular-season game early on Friday and was not on the bench for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Phantom, which has the best record in Unrivaled at 11-4, received a first-round bye to the playoff semifinals, which begin Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2026\/02\/28\/indiana-fever-aliyah-boston-unrivaled-stats-awards-defensive-player-of-the-year\/88919831007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston was named the league&#039;s Defensive Player of the Year;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston was named the league&#8217;s Defensive Player of the Year<\/a> on Saturday after a single-season record of 29 blocks. She was also named to the All-Unrivaled second-team.<\/p>\n<p>Considering Unrivaled&#8217;s season ends March 4, ruling Boston out for the season doesn&#8217;t give much clarity on the seriousness of her injury.<\/p>\n<p>Boston is slated to join USA Basketball on March 6 in Miami to prepare for the FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which runs from March 11-17.<\/p>\n<p>Chloe Peterson is the Indiana Fever beat reporter for IndyStar. Reach her at capeterson@gannett.com or follow her on X at <a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2Fchloepeterson67&amp;data=05%7C02%7CCAPeterson%40gannett.com%7C96d1385634f9430ce88b08ddb019a507%7Cbc924c8d3e164e88bf26d7fcfb14f2d5%7C0%7C0%7C638860346365317719%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=DuFZ6xX%2BgcehcmzXD7lhgy2kI8KLhlQID8ZVUzRa45I%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@chloepeterson67;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@chloepeterson67<\/a>. Get IndyStar&#8217;s Indiana Fever and Caitlin Clark coverage sent directly to your inbox with our <a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprofile.indystar.com%2Fnewsletters%2Fcaitlin-clark-fever%2F%3Fipid%3DNLsignupFever&amp;data=05%7C02%7CCAPeterson%40gannett.com%7C96d1385634f9430ce88b08ddb019a507%7Cbc924c8d3e164e88bf26d7fcfb14f2d5%7C0%7C0%7C638860346365339154%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=MttK%2FSTwbAPaSgjitUJdLm0xGZ3%2FwYxZH4JLKDmnsjI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Caitlin Clark Fever newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/sports\/basketball\/wnba\/fever\/2026\/03\/01\/aliyah-boston-injury-update-indiana-fever-star-out-for-unrivaled-season\/88933675007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aliyah Boston injury update: Indiana Fever star out for Unrivaled season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aliyah Boston injury update: Indiana Fever star out for Unrivaled season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aliyah Boston has been ruled out for the remainder of the Unrivaled season due to a lower right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2648,227485,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-497978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-aliyah-boston","9":"tag-season-ends","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497978","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=497978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}