Cheryl Reeve Underestimated Caitlin Clark and Became a Joke at This WNBA All-Star Game
Cheryl Reeve admits after warmup loss to Team WNBA: We have work to do
It was the second consecutive win for the WNBA All-Star team over the Olympians.
The U.S. may still have the best team at the Olympics, but at the All-Star Game, they didn’t have all the best players on Saturday night.
Ogunbowale set the All-Star scoring record with 34 points and Clark fell just short of the assist mark in her All-Star debut as the WNBA team beat the U.S. Olympic team 117-109.
It was the second consecutive win for the WNBA All-Star team over the Olympians. The All-Stars also won in 2021 led by Ogunbowale, who was MVP of both that game and this one.
The loss didn’t slow down the Americans in 2021 as they went on to winning their seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal. The U.S. hopes for the same results in Paris later this month.
Saturday’s loss came hours after the U.S. men’s Olympic team rallied to beat South Sudan by one point in an exhibition game in London.
The U.S. women’s team will next play Germany in London for an exhibition game Tuesday before going to France for the Olympics. The Americans are in a pool with Belgium, Japan and Germany.
It’s official: the Indiana Fever are heading to the WNBA playoffs for the first time since 2016.
Despite not playing a game on Tuesday, September 3, the Fever booked their tickets to the postseason after both the Chicago Sky and the Atlanta Dream lost their games to the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury, respectively.
The Fever are 17-16 on the season heading into Tuesday’s slate of games, having won six of their last seven outings. Meanwhile, Angel Reese and the Sky dropped to 11-22 after losing their seventh straight game, though they remain at No. 8 in the WNBA standings.
Atlanta is just behind Chicago at No. 9 with an 11-22 record as well.
Indiana has seven games remaining on the season, so the worst they could finish is 17-23. Meanwhile, the best that both Chicago and Atlanta could do is 18-23.
Since both the Sky and Dream still have one game against each other this season, it means only one of them can make it past the postseason and the Fever won’t finish lower than the eighth seed by virtue of having the head-to-head tie-breaker against the two squads.
Caitlin Clark and Co. are 3-1 against the Sky for the season and 3-0 so far against the Dream.
