per Kareem Copeland of ESPN<\/a>. \u201cSo we certainly need to find somebody that can handle the ball a little bit and give me a little bit of a break.<\/p>\n\u201c\u2018I\u2019m the best transition player in the league,\u201d added Clark. \u201cThat\u2019s where I thrive. Everyone knows that\u2019s my game. So getting the ball off a rebound in transition, that\u2019s probably when I\u2019m going to be a primary ball handler more than anything. So I think there\u2019s a lot of different things that can give us a lot of different looks and just make us harder to guard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clark, 24, had her sophomore WNBA season in 2025 derailed by injuries. Thanks to both quad and groin problems, she appeared in just 13 total games and experienced decreased efficiency (with underwhelming shooting splits of 37\/28\/82) even in the games that she did play in.<\/p>\n
Opposing teams love to be extra physical with Clark<\/a>, and she will obviously be the undisputed focal point of any defensive gameplan that she faces. As Clark looks to prioritize her health and a reduced workload as she returns to action in 2026, Fever teammates like Kelsey Mitchell, Aliyah Boston, Lexie Hull, and first-round draft pick Raven Johnson may have to lift her up in that regard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark is looking to drop her usage rate some in 2026. The Indiana Fever superstar Clark spoke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1760,99,434],"class_list":["post-601159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601159","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=601159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}