Caitlin Clark dealing with leg issue ahead of WNBA pre-season

WNBA phenom Caitlin Clark is dealing with an evident limb issue, her squad announced connected Friday.

The Indiana Fever listed Clark arsenic questionable with the limb contented for Saturday's pre-season opener. 

No further details are disposable astir the star's ailment astatine this time.

Last season, Clark averaged 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists per game. She topped each rookies successful scoring and led the WNBA successful mean assists, helping the Fever get backmost to the playoffs for the archetypal clip successful 8 years. 

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The Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark looks backmost during the crippled against the Atlanta Dream astatine Gateway Center Arena in Atlanta connected Aug. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

But adjacent much than her squad depends connected Clark, the league and the athletics arsenic a full person leaned connected the prima to elevate its popularity. 

Clark made the Fever the most-watched squad successful the WNBA by a landslide successful her rookie year, arsenic the 14 most-watched games of the play each progressive the Fever. On apical of that, she broke the grounds for astir All-Star votes for immoderate subordinate successful WNBA history.

INSIDE CAITLIN CLARK'S IMPACT ON MEN'S BASKETBALL

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark smiles arsenic she looks to the squad seat during the crippled against the Dallas Wings astatine College Park Center successful Arlington, Texas, connected Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

In aboriginal September 2024, Clark’s Indiana Fever played earlier a TV assemblage of 1.26 cardinal viewers successful a crippled against the Minnesota Lynx that occurred astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic a Week-1 Friday nighttime NFL crippled betwixt the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers. 

In Clark's archetypal regular-season finale against the Washington Mystics connected Sept. 19, the 20,711 fans that showed up astatine Capital One Arena successful Washington, D.C., acceptable a grounds for the highest-attended WNBA regular-season contest.

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark dribbles during the crippled against the Dallas Wings astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Clark and the Fever drew a WNBA grounds 1.84 cardinal TV viewers connected ABC to her archetypal playoff crippled against the Connecticut Sun connected Sept. 22, portion competing with an NFL Sunday. She followed it up with different grounds assemblage of 2.54 cardinal viewers for Game 2.

But aft the Fever's play ended, the WNBA playoffs saw a steep drop-off successful viewers. 

The archetypal semifinal crippled betwixt the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty, a rematch of past year's WNBA finals betwixt 2 of the league's astir fashionable and palmy teams, drew an assemblage of conscionable 929,000, which was 50% little than the Fever's Game 1 against the Sun.

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