Late yesterday it was announced that Caitlin Clark, perhaps the most prominent female athlete in a team sport on the planet, is excluded the rest of the season due to a groin injury.
Clark is limited this season due to injuries, everything, from a quad -sex in the preseason to its current problems with a groin muscle.
I have been interested in seeing what happened with her club side, the Indiana fever. Thanks to some aggressive personnel movements, Indiana is not really a bad team, even without Clark. The team brought players like Natasha Howard and Sophie Cunningham to strengthen the team’s fortunes.
The thing is, the decision to close Clark comes just before a competition that was moved to show the former Iowa All-American. This Sunday, the Washington Mystics, currently in 10th place in the WNBA table, will not play the fever in their usual home, CareFirst Arena, with around 4,000 spectators. Instead, they chose to move the game to CFG Arena in Baltimore, which can accommodate around 11,600 for basketball.
When this game was planned earlier this year, it was expected that Clark might be on the line -up. But it was also expected that the mystics might be in the play -off hunting. But with less than a week to go in the regular season, Washington has already been eliminated; They are 16-26 in the season, 5 1/2 games behind Seattle for the last play-off place.
The absence of Clark will not only influence the gate for this one game; It will have an effect on the amount of the entire rest of the season. A fever team without its brightest star will dimming the spotlight on the team, although there have been games if they have played well.
It will be interesting to see what is happening this season outside season for the health of both Clark and the Wnba in general.
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