Caitlin Clark sets another record as Indiana Fever defeat Sparks

Indiana is 7-1 since the alliance continued after the Olympic break and secured a playoff billet for the primary time since 2016 on Tuesday.

Clark also got to be the primary rookie ever to create 100 three-pointers in a season with a step-back triple within the third quarter of the diversion. She is the 6th WNBA player to ever reach triple-digit three-pointers in a year.

The 2024 No. 1 in general draft choose has set multiple records and made regularly history over the course of her rookie campaign, but expressed that she is more centered on accomplishing group victory than anything else.

“You’ve ought to win to have all that on the side,” Clark said. “For me, it’s fun winning ball recreations. It’s fun strolling off the court and the crowd’s going insane since you fair won, and you played a great amusement. So for me, that’s where my fundamental center is. And I think when I do that, everything else comes beside it.”

Clark said that she knew that she had secured the triple-double when she pulled down her 10th bounce back within the last seconds of the diversion and dribbled out the clock with a grin on her confront.
 
“Somebody had to urge the rebound,” she chuckled. “AB [Aliyah Boston] was kidding, we continuously joke approximately taking each other’s bounce back, so that was funny.”

The triple-double proceeds what has been one of the finest periods of Clark’s season – she is the ruling Eastern Conference Player of the Week, Eastern Conference Player of the Month and WNBA Rookie of the Month.

Boston, the 2023 Rookie of the Year, too had an amazing execution, posting 24 focuses and 14 bounce back, whereas Kelsey Mitchell scored 18 as the Fever moved to 18-16.

“We’re not done yet,” said Fever head coach Christie Sides, by means of the group. “Our objective is to form the playoffs, and we’ve done that, and we have six recreations presently remaining … We do not ought to demonstrate ourselves any longer. We fair have to be make beyond any doubt we keep doing what we’ve been doing and discover ways to urge that 1tter.”

Journey Sims driven the way with 20 focuses for the Sparkles, whereas Dearica Hamby chipped in with 16 as LA fell to 7-26, the most noticeably awful record within the alliance. The group is right now without star rookie Cameron Brink, who tore her ACL prior this year.