Caitlin Clark shakes off slow start for Fever by hitting two clutch shots to seal her FIRST WNBA win over Sparks and No. 2 draft pick Cameron Brink
Caitlin Clark overcame a slow start against Cameron Brink and the Los Angeles Sparks to seal her first WNBA victory on Friday night.
The No. 1 draft pick and Indiana struggled through their first five games entering the City of Stars on Wednesday after an 85-83 loss to the Seattle Storm.
However, they didn’t let their lead slip away as they took the 78-73 victory over LA in a house of 19,103 spectators.
Clark had just five points before using her arsenal of long-range shooting to put the nail in the coffin in the final minutes. With 2:27 left in the game, Clark hit a 33-foot pull-up to give Indiana a six-point cushion.
About a minute later, Brink responded with a three-pointer of his own from 26 feet. But as the Sparks cut the deficit to two, Clark hit another three to put the Fever on cruise control.
Caitlin Clark hit two clutch three-pointers as the Indiana Fever secured their first win
Ahead of Friday’s Fever-Sparks game, Clark’s former college rival, Angel Reese, appeared to insult the former Iowa star on X following the Chicago Sky’s win over the New York Liberty in Brooklyn on Thursday.
“And that is achieving a victory in a packed room, not just because of one player on our charter flight. #SKYTOWN,” she wrote, adding a kiss emoji at the end.
Clark has been credited with a surge of interest in the WNBA after being picked first by Indiana in April’s Draft – the same event where Reese was picked by Chicago.
The two were also big rivals in college, with Reese playing at LSU while Clark was at Iowa.
Reese and the Sky didn’t have charter flights at the start of the season, but Clark and Indiana did as they dropped their first five games.
On Thursday, Reese addressed suggestions that women’s basketball was solely because of Clark.
‘It’s not about one person, I don’t think people realize that [because] the narrative out there is just one person changing the game,” she said.
“It’s a lot of us. There are so many great players and it is long overdue for us to see that our impact has changed the game.
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