{"id":819374,"date":"2026-08-20T01:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819374\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T01:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:38:09","slug":"caitlin-clark-and-angel-reese-prove-their-value-as-their-latest-matchup-becomes-the-wnbas-most-watched-game-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819374\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese prove their value as their latest matchup becomes the WNBA&#8217;s most-watched game of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">The Indiana Fever are on a five-game winning streak and sit third in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/basketball\/wnba.html?intcmp=MENUMIGA&amp;s_kw=wnba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WNBA<\/a>\u00a0standings, with three of their last four victories coming in dominant fashion against the Liberty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/basketball\/wnba\/dallas-wings\/2026\/08\/19\/paige-bueckers-receives-tough-news-after-azzi-fudd-is-ruled-out-for-the-rest-of-the-season.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wings<\/a>, and an overtime thriller against the Dream, all teams expected to be major factors in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The biggest catalyst behind the Fever&#8217;s soaring success is their high-octane offense, averaging 96.4 points per game, the most ever in WNBA history, led by Kelsey Mitchell (24.3 PPG) and Caitlin Clark (22.1 PPG), who rank second and third in points per game this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Caitlin Clark can&#8217;t hide her reaction after Angel Reese misses potential game-winning layup<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">So far, each star has scored 20+ points in the same game 16 times this season, establishing a new WNBA single-season record for a duo.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Mitchell is currently riding a blistering streak of 20 consecutive games scoring 20+ points, while Clark, combining her scoring output with a league-leading 8.3 assists per game, is authoring the most offensively productive season the WNBA has ever witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>Clark and Reese Shatter WNBA Viewership Records<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The Fever don&#8217;t just dominate on the hardwood; they command television screens nationwide, owning the five most-watched games of the season.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Their latest 95-91 overtime win over the Atlanta Dream and Angel Reese is now officially the most-watched WNBA game on cable in the league&#8217;s 30-season history, per WNBA Communications, averaging 2.6 million viewers and peaking at 4 million.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/basketball\/wnba\/indiana-fever\/2026\/08\/18\/caitlin-clark-earns-another-wnba-honor-as-her-historic-season-makes-her-mvp-case-even-harder-to-ignore.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> and Angel Reese arrived in the league in 2024, the WNBA has experienced exponential growth in viewership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">While Clark remains the primary driving force, with the Fever starring in the most-watched broadcasts overall, the highest-rated regular-season games consistently feature matchups against Reese.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">A postseason series between Clark and Reese would be the ultimate gift for basketball fans, though regardless of who Indiana faces, any Fever playoff series is guaranteed to draw record crowds because Clark&#8217;s historic offensive style is unlike anything the WNBA has ever seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever are on a five-game winning streak and sit third in the WNBA\u00a0standings, with three of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-819374","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\/819374","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=819374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}