Caitlin Clark ribs Fever teammates ahead of first preseason game of 2025 season

Caitlin Clark returned for her sophomore WNBA play with immoderate jokes for her Indiana Fever teammates.

Sophie Cunningham posted a photograph with her caller Fever teammate Lexie Hull connected Instagram connected Friday up of their archetypal preseason crippled against the Washington Mystics. The Fever acquired Cunningham from the Phoenix Mercury successful the offseason.

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Former Iowa defender and existent Indiana Fever WNBA subordinate Caitlin Clark speaks during a quality league earlier an NCAA assemblage hoops crippled betwixt Iowa and USC, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, successful Iowa City, Iowa.  (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) plays against the Dallas Wings successful the 2nd fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled successful Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024.  (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

Ever the gamer, Clark had a connection for the 2 women.

"Little little tanning. A small much bball ladies," Clark commented. The remark received much than 10,000 likes.

Cunningham had jokes of her own.

"The tan volition come… everything other is perf," Cunningham wrote connected Clark's photo.

Cunningham spoke highly of Clark arsenic she joined the Fever.

"We've talked rather a spot successful the past mates of months since I've gotten traded, and she's conscionable a bully human," Cunningham told Fox News Digital of Clark backmost successful April. "I deliberation she has wit to her, she has wit to her. Everyone that I've talked to said that she's a large teammate. She conscionable wants to win, right?"

She said that she believes Indiana’s "style of play" is thing she thrives successful and that if the chemistry connected the tribunal is there, this squad stands a bully accidental astatine winning a championship. 

Indiana Fever Sophie Cunningham (8) hugs Indiana Fever Caitlin Clark (22) connected Saturday, May 3, 2025, during a preseason crippled betwixt the Indiana Fever and the Washington Mystics astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

 Indiana Fever defender Lexie Hull poses for a photograph connected Wednesday, April 30, 2025, during the Indiana Fever media time astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Grace Smith-USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

"I'm conscionable excited for [Clark’s] competitiveness. I'm excited for everything she brings to the table. But again, I'm excited for everyone, right? You person Kelsey Mitchell, who's been a vet, too, who has been determination for years, who is simply a heck of a subordinate arsenic well. And truthful for me, conscionable to benignant of beryllium a portion of thing for the archetypal clip – a caller squad for the archetypal clip successful six years – I conscionable deliberation it's a caller wind. It's what I needed. It's re-motivated, it's refocused my energy. And again, similar astatine the extremity of the day, I conscionable privation to win. I privation championships, and I deliberation this is the close squad for it." 

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Cunningham, 28, was selected by Phoenix in the 2nd circular of the 2019 WNBA Draft and has go 1 of the league’s astir fashionable players. She’s appeared successful 182 games, averaging 7.7 points per game, 2.7 full rebounds and 1.4 assists. 

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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