Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark savored her opportunity to step onto the court in the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game after missing the event a season ago.<\/p>\n
Clark opened her post-game press conference by reflecting on how Saturday was “kind of a unique experience” because she hadn’t competed in a “true All-Star Game” to this point.<\/p>\n
“Obviously last year really stunk and it being in our home city,” she told reporters (4:55 mark). “You never want to miss that. You never want to miss that for the fans. I love to show up and get to compete and play. Obviously you only get 20 minutes; sometimes you want to play more. <\/p>\n
“This is kind of like a much different feel than a normal basketball game. You’re kind of just like a young kid running around out there, having fun and shooting whatever shots and being creative, playing with flow. And I really enjoy that about the game of basketball, so it was really fun for me to get back out there.”<\/p>\n
Clark had 17 points, four rebounds, five assists and one steal in her 21 minutes of action in Team Spoon’s 129-122 win over Team Coop. She fully embraced the exhibition nature of the contest, attempting 15 three-pointers.<\/p>\n
While this was the third All-Star nod of Clark’s young career, she hadn’t gotten to enjoy the full ASG experience. <\/p>\n
Ahead of the Summer Olympics, the WNBA had the United States national team compete against a collection of All-Stars in 2024. Clark represented Team WNBA. Then she battled a number of injuries in 2025 that limited her to just 13 appearances.<\/p>\n
There are going to be plenty more All-Star honors in Clark’s future, and the overall spectacle may start to lose some of its luster in her mind over time. For now, All-Star Weekend was not something she took lightly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark savored her opportunity to step onto the court in the 2026 WNBA All-Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-786050","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\/786050","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=786050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}