No matter the sport, some luck is required to win a championship.
The Indiana Fever had plenty of luck this season. It’s just that all of it was bad.
On Thursday night, Caitlin Clark confirmed what was already obvious: She will join Aari McDonald, Sydney Colson and Sophie Cunningham on the list of Fever players whose seasons were cut short by injuries this year. The idea that Clark and the Fever could contend for the WNBA title this year is gone, buried beneath a mountain of MRI results, bandages and ice packs.
Yes, they can still make the playoffs, clinging to the eighth spot with three games to play. But even if they hang on, they’d get a first-round matchup with the Minnesota Lynx and, well, good luck with that.
“Any time you have to reinvent yourself throughout the course of the season … it’s challenging,” Fever coach Stephanie White said last week.
