Caitlin Clark’s 2nd triple-double propels Fever to fifth straight win.
Indiana Fever fans roared when Caitlin Clark grabbed a rebound with 10.2 seconds left Wednesday. It gave an even better ending to the team’s fifth victory in a row: Clark got her second triple-double of the WNBA season.
In the closing seconds of the 93-86 win over Los Angeles, she snared her 10th rebound to go along with 10 assists and 24 points. Clark notched the first triple-double ever by a WNBA rookie (19 points, 13 assists, 12 rebounds) on July 6 in a victory over the New York Liberty. She is the fifth WNBA player to have multiple triple-doubles in a season.
Clark had 17 triple-doubles in her Iowa college career, and the Hawkeyes won all those games. Also Wednesday, Clark made 4 3-pointers and is now at 102 for the season. She is the quickest to reach 100 3-pointers in WNBA history, doing so in her 34th game.
Earlier in the day, Clark was named WNBA rookie of the month and Eastern Conference player of the month for August. She smiled Wednesday on court when she got the last rebound, acknowledging afterward that she knew about the triple-double because of the scoreboard. Her teammates and the crowd of 16,645 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse knew right away, too.
“Every game she gets a little better,” said Indiana’s Christie Sides, who was named WNBA coach of the month Wednesday. “Every game she gets a little bit [more] understanding of the speed and the quickness. I love the conversations with her about the game. She’s playing really well … she had some amazing assists tonight.”
The Fever earned their first playoff berth since 2016 on Tuesday, thanks to losses by Atlanta and Chicago. So they started a six-game homestand Wednesday with a lot of energy in the arena. The last-place Sparks battled throughout, but Indiana prevailed.
Like Clark, Aliyah Boston finished with 24 points for Indiana, adding 14 rebounds and 4 assists. It was Boston’s 12th double-double this season. Kelsey Mitchell had 18 points and NaLyssa Smith 13 for the Fever, who are now 18-16.
This is the first time the Fever have won at least five games in a row since a six-game winning streak in the 2015 season, when they went to the WNBA Finals and fell to Minnesota. Indiana is now 7-1 since WNBA play resumed after the Olympic break. The Fever’s only loss in that stretch was Aug. 24 at Minnesota, which is Indiana’s next opponent, on Friday.
Wednesday was Clark’s third consecutive game with at least 20 points and 10 assists, which is tied with Courtney Vandersloot (for Chicago in 2017) f or the longest such streak. Overall, Clark has seven games with at least 20 points and 10 assists. That is a WNBA single season record and is already third on the WNBA career list behind Vandersloot (10) and Phoenix’s Diana Taurasi (9).
Clark has scored or assisted on 224 points in the Fever’s five-game win streak, which is yet another WNBA record. Previously, that mark was 220 by Taurasi in 2006, her third season in the league.
“These are games you really need to win at home,” Clark said. “The more we can win, the better we can position ourselves for the playoffs. These fans spend a lot of money to come here and watch us and have fun with us. So you want to kind of give them a show every time we’re in here.”
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Taylor Swift’s status for the Kansas City Chiefs’ season opener against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night has been revealed.
Chiefs superstar tight end Travis Kelce has been in a relationship with Taylor Swift for roughly a year now. Swift attended 13 Chiefs games in 2023, including every playoff game and their victory over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58.
According to a report from Bob Williams and Steve Brenner of The U.S. Sun, the Grammy Award-winning singer will indeed be in attendance for the Chiefs’ season opener at Arrowhead Stadium.
Here’s what a source close to Taylor Swift told the outlet:
“She wouldn’t miss it for anything in the world. After the long Euro part of the tour, where Travis was able to come show up and spend time with her when he could, she wants to show him that she supports him.”
Swift essentially confirmed her relationship with Kelce last year when she attended the Chiefs’ Week 3 home game against the Chicago Bears. A week later, she was at MetLife Stadium for the Chiefs’ “Sunday Night Football” road game against the New York Jets.
Taylor Swift had a concert in Tokyo the night before Super Bowl 58 took place in Las Vegas. She performed her show and then rushed back to the United States, landing in plenty of time before the big game.
The Chiefs defeated the 49ers in overtime to complete the repeat, becoming the first team to hit that feat since the 2003 and ’04 New England Patriots. Up next, Kansas City will try to become the first team in NFL history to win three straight Super Bowls.
Chiefs vs. Ravens Meet In AFC Championship Game Rematch
The Ravens and Chiefs will square off in a can’t-miss rematch of last season’s AFC title game, which Kansas City won 17-10 to end Lamar Jackson’s second MVP-winning season.
Patrick Mahomes owns a 4-1 record against Jackson, with the only loss coming in Week 2 of the 2021 season. The three-time Super Bowl champion is 2-0 at home against Baltimore, with victories at Arrowhead in the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
