Indiana Fever locker room goes wild after fantastic win over The Dream, we keep moving forward tonight!
Mitchell has 28, Clark 19 as Fever disappoint record dream crowd with 84-79 win
Caitlin Clark added 19 points, and the Indiana Fever disappointed a record Atlanta crowd by holding off the Dream 84-79.
Credit: (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson). Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark (22) dribbles the ball against Atlanta Dream’s Allisha Gray (15) in the first half of an WNBA basketball game.
Kelsey Mitchell scored 29 points, including the clinching free throws with 5 seconds left, Caitlin Clark added 19 points and the Indiana Fever disappointed a record Atlanta crowd by holding off the Dream 84-79 on Monday night.
In the closing seconds, without a timeout, Atlanta missed two 3-pointers but grabbed two offensive rebounds before fumbling the ball away, which led to Mitchell’s free throws.
Atlanta (10-19), which started the day a half-game out of the final playoff spot, trailed by 18 early in the second half when Clark hit a 3-pointer before outscoring the Fever (14-16) 41-32. The Dream got within two before Indiana’s five-point possession blunted the rally.
Aliyah Boston had 14 points and 11 rebounds for Indiana and Damiris Dantas scored 33 off the bench. Clark had four 3-pointers, tying the rookie record of 85 by Atlanta’s Rhyn Howard in 2022.
Tina Charles scored 21 to lead Atlanta, which moved the game to the home of the Atlanta Hawks and set an attendance record of 17,608, surpassing the crowd that attended the last game against the Fever (17,575). Howard had 16 points, Allisha Gray 12 — none after receiving a flagrant foul from Boston midway through the third quarter — and Jordin Canada 10 for the Dream.
Howard’s 3 pulled Atlanta to 76-74 with 4:13 to play but after an offensive rebound Clark found Lexie Hull for an and-1 layup a minute later. Hull rebounded her missed free throw and fed Mitchell for an and-1 layup she converted for an 81-74 lead.
Nia Coffey made a 3 for Atlanta with just under a minute to play to make it 82-79.
Mitchell had 15 points and Boston 12, on a combined 12-of-21 shooting as the Fever took a 52-38 lead.
At halftime the gold medal team from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics was honored.
Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky endured a frustrating trip back home following a disappointing loss to the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday night.
The Sky haven’t quite jumped out of the blocks since the WNBA’s restart. They have won just one of their three games, a victory over the Los Angeles Sparks sandwiched between two losses to the Mercury.
Chicago Airport and Angel Reese (Photos via Getty Images)
As if the loss wasn’t depressing enough, Chicago players had to deal with multiple hindrances on their way back to The Windy City. And a frustrated Reese would take to social media to vent.
“Why is it 3:47am and we still not home???,” she wrote.
“real question is why are you awake lol,” a fan inquired.
“We got off the plane — well, we didn’t get off the plane. We were sitting on, like, the landing area and they told us our bus was an hour away,” DeShields explained. “They said we had to walk through the airport, get our luggage off of a conveyor belt and now we’re outside waiting for Ubers to take us home at whatever time it is.”
She also posted a clip of her teammates walking through the airport at 3:11 AM, but she was up for a gym session a few hours later, sharing a mirror selfie of herself at the gym at 8:35 on Monday morning.
“Nonetheless….be a pro,” she wrote.
Diamond DeShields IG Story (Photo via diamonddoesit1/IG)
Diamond DeShield’s IG Story (Photo via diamonddoesit1/IG)
Angel Reese Hit Another WNBA Milestone On Sunday
Despite the inconvenience, Angel Reese and her teammates will be happy not to have to play again until Friday, when they face the Connecticut Sun.
The former LSU star recorded a 20th double-double in her most recent outing, scoring 19 points and a career-high 20 rebounds to become the fastest rookie to reach 20 in WNBA history.
