Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers are sure to battle many times over the course of their respective careers. Round 1 went to Clark by knockout.<\/p>\n
The Indiana Fever smoked the Dallas Wings on Sunday, 102-83, led by Clark’s 14 points, 13 assists and five steals. Kelsey Mitchell (20 points) and Natasha Howard (18 points, two steals) chipped in with big performances.<\/p>\n
Bueckers held her own, putting up 21 points, four rebounds and four assists in what continues to be a runaway Rookie of the Year campaign. It wasn’t enough to keep pace with Indiana, however, with the Fever moving to 11-10 on the season. <\/p>\n
Dallas, meanwhile, is now 6-16. <\/p>\n
Better days will be ahead for Bueckers and the Wings, of course. But Sunday belonged to Clark and the Fever, even if Bueckers did her thing:<\/p>\n
Any battle between the past two top overall picks is going to be a fun showdown, though the Fever spent the offseason putting together a contending roster around Clark. The Wings, meanwhile, are just beginning their rebuild around Bueckers, and the difference was clear on Sunday. <\/p>\n
So the first entry in what promises to be an intriguing rivalry between Clark and Bueckers was a bit anticlimactic. But the pair are among the young faces of the WNBA, and the league is clearly in very good hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers are sure to battle many times over the course of their respective careers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-8800","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\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}