Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever continues to make history in the WNBA, as she was recently selected as one of the captains for the league’s All-Star Game.
The reigning Rookie of the Year and 2024 All-WNBA First Team selection earned her role of captain by being one of the most voted players by the fans, 1,293,526.
The Indiana Fever are currently seventh place overall in the WNBA, and third place in the Eastern Conference. While the team has struggled to find its rhythm, the squad’s been able to stay in .500, with a 9-9 record. Clark has been missing several games due to a groin injury, but she’s been constantly cheering her teammates from the sidelines with the hope that she can come back soon.
The reason why Caitlin Clark is a big superstar
One of the biggest questions basketball fans all around the world have asked themselves is why did Caitlin Clark, of all great modern basketball players, become the biggest superstar of her generation. And that’s one of the questions veteran journalist Christine Brennan tries to answer in her book, “On Her Game: Caitlin Clark and the Revolution in Women’s Sports.”
In a conversation with TV9 Iowa, Brennan says she’s never seen a player captivate a sport like Clark, who was cheered on ever since she got big playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes. “It shows the magnitude and the love for Caitlin Clark and the huge support that it wasn’t an Olympic performance, she wasn’t standing on the podium with a gold medal,” for the United States.
According to the journalist, the love and attention Caitlin receives is “organic” and it shows just how much “this country loves this young athlete and again I’ll go back to my opinion of her being an entertainer even more than a basketball player, I mean, of course she’s a basketball player, but she’s a high-wire act, she’s an entertainer, it’s like Tiger Woods, you just couldn’t take your eyes off him.”
Caitlin wants to take the Indiana Fever to new heights
Caitlin Clark is averaging 18.2 points and a career-high 8.9 assists per game during her second season in the WNBA, as she tries to help the Indiana Fever to make a deep run in the playoffs in pursue of their second championship in franchise history.
Indiana’s struggles in the final stretch appeared to fit a troubling pattern for the 2025 season. In their first matchup with Los Angeles Sparks, they carried an eightpoint edge into the fourth quarter only to fall apart late, driving head coach Stephanie White to express concern about a lack of “killer instinct” under pressure.
In that earlier loss, White noted mental lapses, undisciplined defense, communication failures, and empty possessions at crucial moments. She emphasized that with better concentration and more physical commitment, the result could have swung the other way.
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