Caitlin Clark’s face drops when Fever teammates put her in her place

Caitlin Clark and her Indiana Fever teammates were all jokes as the team cruised a comfortable win over the Brazil national team on Sunday in a WNBA preseason contest

Sunday was a dazzling homecoming for Caitlin Clark when her Indiana Fever side took on the Brazilian Women’s National Basketball Team in her return to the Carver-Hawkeye Center, Clark’s longtime home while at the University of Iowa.

The second-year standout splashed a 36-foot three-pointer close to halftime from around the same spot she broke the all-time NCAA scoring record in 2024. She finished with 16 points in 19 minutes as the Fever prevailed 108-44, the team’s second consecutive victory to open the 2025 WNBA preseason, before the Team Brazil coach told her exactly what he thinks of her after a gesture from his players.When sitting between teammates Lexie Hull and Sophie Cunningham on the bench moments later — two players Clark has already exchanged playful barbs with on social media — ESPN audio picked up Clark asked if it got “loud in here” when her near-halfcourt shot went in.

When you scored?” Cunningham asked. “Yeah,” Clark replied. “No,” her teammate said, getting a wry smirk out of Clark. “No one really cared,” Hull added. “You gotta be better,” Cunningham added.

After the team’s media day earlier in the week, Cunningham posted a bunch of photos posing with Hull captioned “Seeing double?” Clark couldn’t help but submit a cheeky comment: “A little less tanning. A little more bball ladies,” she wrote.

Clark posted a quartet of media day photos to his own account shortly after. It was Cunningham’s turn to make a jive: “The tan will come….everything else is peft,” she commented.

Indiana acquired Cunningham as part of a four-team trade that saw the team lose former second-overall pick NaLyssa Smith. The veteran guard is expected to be the first guard off the bench for new head coach Stephanie White.

Cunningham scored six off the bench in the win against Brazil, while Hull added nine. Indiana seems poised to stick with the lineup of Clark, DeWanna Bonner, Natasha Howard, Kelsey Mitchell, and Aliyah Boston to start the season.

Clark, the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year, seems poised to improve upon her fourth place MVP finish a season ago in a season laiden with championship expectations.

“Somehow it feels like the pressure is always taken to another level and another level,” she said of the expectations this season. But I always remind myself, it’s not a moment I haven’t been in before.”

“I understand the expectations, I understand the pressure, and … I wouldn’t want that any other way. I like to embrace that. There are going to be nights that are great. There are going to be nights that you struggle a little bit. It’s just how you respond.”