{"id":97704,"date":"2025-08-20T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97704\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:17:20","slug":"groin-injury-continues-to-sideline-fever-star-caitlin-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/97704\/","title":{"rendered":"Groin injury continues to sideline Fever star Caitlin Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 20, 2025, 04:43 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>Two-time All-Star <a data-player-guid=\"5ec40e1c-3104-322e-b80f-f358ea26aad4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/4433403\/caitlin-clark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> missed another practice with her injured right groin Wednesday, and coach Stephanie White still does not have a timetable for her star guard&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<p>Clark has not played since hurting her groin in the final minute of a game July 15 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/team\/_\/name\/con\/connecticut-sun\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut<\/a>. Three different muscle injuries this season have forced Clark to sit out 22 games, including the past 13, and All-Star weekend in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part: White is simply hoping Clark returns for some of her team&#8217;s last nine regular-season games. Indiana also lost three other key players with season-ending injuries over the past two weeks, the latest being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/46019854\/fever-guard-sophie-cunningham-knee-miss-rest-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Cunningham to an MCL tear in her right knee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until she can get into practice and until you guys see her in practice, it&#8217;s really status quo,&#8221; White said after Wednesday&#8217;s workout at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Clark never missed a game in college at Iowa and played in every Fever game last season when she won the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana spent the offseason going all-in on putting a stronger supporting cast around the former Iowa star, and those moves appear to have paid off by keeping the Fever in playoff position without Clark and the team&#8217;s other injured players. Indiana is 19-16 and in sixth place in the league standings.<\/p>\n<p>Clark, meanwhile, still has a role with the Fever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Caitlin&#8217;s still there, like that hasn&#8217;t wavered,&#8221; All-Star guard <a data-player-guid=\"65441aab-bd32-abef-f1f9-6a95b381c955\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/player\/_\/id\/3142191\/kelsey-mitchell\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelsey Mitchell<\/a> said. &#8220;And I think even though they&#8217;re not in the lineup, we still feel everyone&#8217;s presence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 20, 2025, 04:43 PM ET Two-time All-Star Caitlin Clark missed another practice with her injured right groin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-97704","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\/97704","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=97704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}