The highest two picks of the 2024 WNBA Draft will reunite when the Indiana Fever host the Los Angeles Sparks on Thursday evening.
However one is struggling and the opposite is unlikely to play.
Fever star Caitlin Clark is averaging 18.2 factors, however has missed her final 13 shot makes an attempt from 3-point vary and comes off a season-low six factors within the Fever’s win on Tuesday at Seattle.
In the meantime, final 12 months’s No. 2 general choose Cameron Brink has but to play for the Sparks this season whereas recovering from an ACL tear suffered in 2024.
Nobody in Indiana is frightened about Clark but, however she hasn’t made a 3-pointer in additional than 66 minutes of sport time. She is tied for the WNBA lead with 8.9 assists per sport.
“She might be effective,” Fever guard Lexie Hull mentioned about Clark’s capturing woes on Tuesday. “This occurs to each staff, each participant.”
Indiana had considered one of its most full performances of the season in its 94-86 win over the Storm, highlighted by Aliyah Boston erupting for a career- excessive 31 factors.
“She was on steadiness the entire time,” mentioned Fever coach Stephanie White. “She does such a superb job of facilitating for us, typically I feel she misses alternatives to be a scorer.
“I believed she did a superb job of constructing the precise learn and discovering the precise gamers. She was environment friendly and hustling for alternatives and we had been getting her the ball in a well timed method.”
The Sparks have misplaced 4 straight, together with a disappointing 11-point defeat Tuesday evening in Chicago. Los Angeles held a two-point lead coming into the fourth quarter, however had been outscored 30-17 within the remaining body.
“We’ve to have the ability to get stops within the fourth quarter,” mentioned first-year Sparks coach Lynne Roberts. “And I feel offensively we obtained away from what was working, an excessive amount of 1-on-1. We’ve to repair that and have some belief within the system and one another and ensure we’re getting nice pictures down the stretch.”
The final report on Brink was that she began non-contract drills earlier this month placing her on a timeline to return earlier than the All-Star break that begins July 17.
Whereas Los Angeles is led by Kelsey Plum’s 20.4 factors and 5.4 assists per contest, the Sparks have allowed the third-most factors within the WNBA at 87.3 per sport.
Indiana made roster information Wednesday by releasing six-time WNBA All-Star DeWanna Bonner, who appeared in 9 video games for Indiana earlier than leaving the staff for private causes. The Fever re-signed guard Aari McDonald.
Indiana might be with out reserve ahead Damiris Dantas by July 8 whereas she competes for Brazil within the AmeriCup. She’s averaging 4.6 factors in 12 minutes per sport.
The Fever gained two of three video games from the Sparks final season.
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