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The phenomenon of the WNBA Caitlin Clark faces an apparent leg number, its team announced on Friday.
Indiana fever has listed Clark as questionable with the problem of the legs for the opening of its Saturday season.
No other details are available on the star disease at the moment.
Last season, Clark collected an average of 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game. She exceeded all the recruits of the score and led the WNBA in assists, helping the fever to return to the playoffs for the first time in eight years.
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The Caitlin Clark of Indiana Fever looks back during the match against Atlanta’s dream at Gateway Center Arena in Atlanta on August 26, 2024. (AP photo / Brynn Anderson)
But even more than his team depends on Clark, the league and the sport as a whole relied on the star to raise its popularity.
Clark made fever the most watched team in the WNBA by a landslide His recruit yearLike the 14 most watched games of the season all involved fever. In addition to that, she broke the record for most stars votes for any player in the history of WNBA.
Inside the impact of Caitlin Clark on male basketball
The Indiana Caitlin Clark fever goalkeeper smiles as she turns to the team bench during the Dallas wings at the College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, September 1, 2024. (AP photo / Tony GUTIERREZ)
At the beginning of September 2024, Clark’s fever in Indiana played in front of a television audience of 1.26 million viewers in a match against the Lynx of Minnesota which occurred at the same time as a match of the week-1 Friday evening between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers.
During the first final of the Clark regular season against Washington’s mystics on September 19, the 20,711 fans who presented themselves in Capital Onena in Washington, DC, set a record for the most popular WNBA regular season competition.
Indiana Caitlin Clarkble’s fever goalkeeper during the match against the Dallas wings in Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on September 15, 2024. (AP photo / Michael Conroy, file)
Clark and fever attracted a record for the WNBA 1.84 million viewers on ABC in its first eliminatory match against Connecticut Sun on September 22, while competing with a NFL Sunday. She followed with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for match 2.
But after the end of the fever season, the WNBA qualifiers saw a steep drop in viewers.
The first semi-final match between Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty, a revenge of the WNBA finals from last year between two of the most popular and successful teams in the League, attracted an audience of only 929,000, which was 50% less than match 1 of fever against the sun.
