Tonight from downtown Indianapolis, the Fever welcome in the Seattle Storm with major playoff implications on the line tonight. All right, y’all. Look, this is a big one tonight. Okay, it’s an important one. This has got to be our best 40 minutes. This has got to be our most intentional 40 minutes in everything that we do.
Okay, look, no one person needs to do anything outside of themselves, right? But every single person in this locker room needs to be the best version of themselves. What if I told you the Indiana Fever didn’t just win? They made history six different times in one night. The Fever crushed the Seattle Storm by 20. But that’s not even the biggest story.
With Caitlyn Clark sidelined, her Nike logo lighting up Gainbridge and five teammates also out. Indiana proved they’re more than just surviving. They’re breaking records while climbing back into playoff position. You’re about to see how this one game changed everything. The grit, the records, and what Clark’s return could mean for the future.
This wasn’t just a victory, it was a statement. If you’re fired up, then comment fired up for the fever. Let’s go. Alia Boston and Essie Magnagore in the center jump circle. We are underway from Indianapolis. Odyssey Sims tracks down the jump ball and lays it in. Sims wearing bright pink shoes, passes to Mitchell right corner three.
It’s good and it’s a record. 771 points in counting in 2025 for Kelsey Mitchell. The most in Fever franchise history. What happens when a player doesn’t even step on the floor, but her presence defines the entire night? That was the scene at Gainbridge Fieldhouse where the spotlight shined on Caitlyn Clark despite her sitting on the sideline in street clothes.
Nike had chosen this game as the stage to launch her signature logo, and the energy made the arena feel less like a late August regular season contest and more like a city-wide celebration. The double CC symbol covered the building, glowing outside on giant displays and stretched across t-shirts handed to every fan who walked through the doors.
Thousands of people put them on instantly, giving the crowd a unified look, almost like a stadiumwide team uniform. It looks really unique. You know, I think it’s very creative for Kent Ward to come up with something like this. And I just enjoy like all of it. You know, it’s like aura. We love it. It’s simple yet it speaks a lot.
I love it so much. I’m a big fan of it. Uh simplicity is the best. Um I like the design. Nike always does great with design. So I’m a huge fan of the logo. It looks really cool. I was really excited to see it last night and it looks like we’re going to get shirts with it on it. So that’s pretty exciting, too.
I like it. I like how it incorporates like the CC. I love it. Double C’s. Let’s go Kayn. Inside the arena, you could feel the buzz before the first possession. Clark’s absence didn’t seem to matter. Her brand held the building. Gainbridge had been transformed into Caitlyn Clark Arena.
Everywhere you looked, there was a banner, a piece of merchandise, or a fan clutching some limited edition gear. This wasn’t just WNBA basketball. It was a cultural event. Pregame ceremonies only magnified the anticipation. You heard cheers swell every time her name was mentioned despite it being her 16th straight game out with injury. Feels good.
Got the pants, got the charms, necklace, zipper. Wait, zipper. Everything. But here’s where the tension kicked in. Clark wasn’t the only one in street clothes. Sophie Cunningham, Khloe Bby, Sydney Coulson, and Ary McDonald were also unavailable. That meant five fever players sidelined. While the team itself had dropped four of its last five.
The playoff race had already squeezed into a survival test and Indiana knew a stumble here could cost them more than just one night. It could have pushed them deeper down the standings. AB’s been the one that’s been most affected by all of our injuries. You know, all of the point guards that know how to get her the ball and um how they get it to her.
And it’s not just getting her the ball, it’s where you get it to her. you know, getting it to her on time, on target, you know, thinking one pass ahead, you know, all that matters. Um, and I thought today her aggressiveness with the ball in her hands to the rim, getting into defenders, playing low to high instead of high to low.
Uh, when she plays like that, you know, there’s nobody that can stop her. And, you know, she was she set the tone for us um really on both ends. You know, she had the NECA assignment as well and set the tone for us on both ends. And, um, you know, she was she was terrific. So, the story of this game became a contrast.
Off the court, Indiana built a spectacle around their star. On the court, they faced a roster patched with missing pieces and a difficult task in slowing down the storm. Coach Stephanie White even admitted before tip off that Indiana needed to treat this like a playoff atmosphere, that every single game mattered.
And Aaliyah Boston put it simply, the place felt like May basketball, not August. It’s um it’s special. I mean, you know, there’s very few people who get the opportunity to say that they have a logo and to to make the impact um that she makes, not just I think in the sport, but but globally just by by being who she is. She’s a connector.
um she brings people together and you know I think for us to be a part of that and whether it’s you know as simple as being able to celebrate all of these things with her or you know as as m as much as walking out into the arena and seeing the white out on the on the um chairs out there. It’s it’s really cool.
Uh, and it’s really special to and shoot, I’m talking about it right now and just just feeling uh the intense gratitude for me personally being in women’s basketball to to be able to be a part of this moment um and to celebrate with her. That kind of weight meant the players couldn’t walk in and just go through the motions.
Something about the mix of celebration and urgency pushed the intensity higher. And oddly enough, while the CC letters glowed across the walls, it turned out someone else’s hand caught fire on the scoreboard. Indiana jumped out fast, hitting every quarter with more than 20 points, setting a tone that Seattle never matched. The fever never trailed.
By the end, the scoreboard read 95 to 75. The win didn’t just draw a cheer. It pushed Indiana back into the sixth seat of the standings, climbing from eighth when the night began. The fans came wearing Clark’s logo, but they left talking about an entire team that had turned the moment into dominance. Next came the grit and toughness that truly defined this stage.
And Gabby Williams were slow to get up after a collision underneath the basket. Here’s what happened. Oh, they that is a major collision for the two of them. They both knock heads. It took them both some time to get to their feet. What’s the turning point in a season where a team could have folded under injuries but didn’t? You didn’t have to wait long to feel it in this game.
Just minutes into the first quarter, the entire arena fell silent when Lexi Hull and Gabby Williams collided hard, heads crashing together as they both fought for a loose ball. The sound echoed and then came the sight. Hull walking off with a massive knot forming on her forehead. The crowd gasped and suddenly all that celebration from earlier in the night shifted into worried quiet.
With five of her teammates already out, the thought of losing Hull in that moment felt crushing. Lexi Hall gets hit in the head there at the beginning of the game, comes back in. If you could just speak to her her toughness and and what it meant seeing her fight through what sure was not very pleasant. I feel like Lexi is the definition of tough. Yes.
Um I think when you just think of her as a player, the way that she she hustles, she likes to get loose balls, extra offensive possessions. Um that’s what she does. I mean, she got hit, she came back um came back and just continued to contribute again. uh was a pest on defense, just making her presence felt, offensive rebounds, and that’s just who Lexi is.
So, but not even 10 minutes later, the place exploded again. Paul checked back into the game, the swelling still clear on her face, and instantly the energy flipped. Her toughness set a tone. After the game, Aaliyah Boston put it in plain words. She said, “Hull is the definition of tough, and you could see why.
Coach Stephanie White went even further, calling the hit disgusting. Yet Hull shrugged it off herself, downplaying the injury, even laughing later when she said that everybody told her she looked beautiful with the lump. That willingness to just keep going resonated. It gave the fever something to rally behind. Yeah. I mean, that was disgusting.
I don’t know if y’all saw it, but um I mean it just it’s it’s who she is. Um, you know, she’s just a tough young woman who who battles every possession and, you know, you can you can never tell if if you know, if Lexi does if she’s hurt, if she’s injured, if she goes down, if she gets back up, she just always has the same expression and she just plays her butt off.
And, you know, I’m thankful that it wasn’t um worse and and and thankful that she was able to to come back. Um, but she really kind of epitomizes the the the toughness and the grit um of this team. What it triggered was a complete shift in how Indiana played. They started owning every possession. The rebounding battle turned into a landslide 42 to2 fueled by Hull herself grabbing nine boards alongside Boston and Aerial Powers.
And if you were looking for dominance in the paint, Boston gave it without hesitation. She finished with 27 points on 10 of 18 shooting and bullied Seattle inside. Every touch looked like a mismatch. Every possession felt like a message that Indiana wasn’t going to be the team playing scared. Williams drive passes.
Breezy with a block. She swats Malonga. Fever in transition left to right. Powers at the right elbow backing down Diggins. Passes left wing. Kelsey fires. Got it. The defense to offense and the Fever lead by 10. It’s 2212 with two minutes to go in the first quarter. Odyssey Sims knocks down a three. At the same time, Kelsey Mitchell and Odyssey Sims provided the firepower on the perimeter.
Mitchell sliced through screens and made back door cuts that even left Storm veteran Neca Aumik, admitting afterward that Mitchell was the head of the snake they couldn’t contain. Sims added a statement of her own, not just with 22 points, but with a wild contested bank shot from nearly 35 ft. The type of play that makes a crowd lose its mind.
Together, Boston, Mitchell, and Sims turned the fever into an unstoppable force. Each cracking 20 plus points while putting constant pressure on Seattle at both ends. Kelsey pick and rolling. TD lays it in. Lexi left wing rise and fire. Yes. Howard skip pass AB. Watch three right side. it. Still sees two. There’s B. They didn’t get a good look in Boston to Mitchell.
That wraps up the first half. The Fever lead the Storms 50-39. And here’s the rare part. This wasn’t a hot half or a single run. Indiana scored at least 21 points every quarter and held the storm under 20 in each. It was balance, consistency, and a three-headed attack that simply swept Seattle off the floor.
For a team that had stumbled through weeks of ups and downs, this was their cleanest four quarter performance all season. But what made it historic wasn’t just the score. Hidden inside this victory were performances that shattered the Fever record books, and the list ended up longer than anyone expected. Boston gets the bounce and it’s Howard to Boston.
16,737 on their feet at Gambridge Fieldhouse. Final score, Fever 95, Storm 75. A statement victory for Indiana to spring ahead of Seattle in the standings. How many pieces of history can a single team write in one night? The answer here is six. That’s exactly what the Fever delivered in this win.
It wasn’t just a solid performance against Seattle. It turned into one of the most record- setting games in the history of the franchise. And the first headline belonged to Kelsey Mitchell. By dropping 21 points, she passed Caitlyn Clark’s franchise single season scoring record. The fact that Clark set that bar only last year shows how quickly the standard for this young team keeps rising.
You can already feel it. These two were going to trade this record back and forth for years to come. Mitchell didn’t stop there either. She also became the league leader in 20point games this season, sitting above every other scorer in the WNBA. Set a new franchise record for most points in a single season [Music] as Akum gets it to go.
Mitchell quick trigger and hits. Unguardable. No one can guard. But here’s the fascinating part. While this could sound like Mitchell overshadowing Clark, it actually builds the future for what’s coming. Clark is healthy later, Mitchell is still climbing, and the scoring punch between them will probably shape the identity of this franchise for the next decade.
Sykes doing a good job of stuffing that back door cut, but it just sets up the screen and roll. It’s all Kelsey Mitchell. The subtle things, the amount of attention. Aaliyah Boston wasn’t about to leave her fingerprints off the history books either. Boston hit 1,000 career rebounds, becoming only the second youngest player in league history to do it.
The only player younger was Tina Charles, putting Boston in select company, the type of milestone that signals greatness arriving early. Beyond the raw number, it underlines how efficient she is every single game. She’s not just stacking stats. She’s already one of the anchors for her team’s energy and defensive backbone. AB thousandth career rebound.
Player in fever history to do so. Thanks. And good hands there by Aaliyah Boston just wrestles it away from Agum. And here is Mitchell. Usually you’d have a two for one right here if you had Caitlyn Clark on the floor, but without Caitlin Clark, you really need to get a good look. They do get a good look and it’s Boston to Mitchell.
Here is Boston going at the rookie. Boston using her strength to get to the rim. That one more dribble puts the shot blocker inside the cylinder of the rim. And as if that wasn’t enough, she added a second milestone. Boston became the second fastest WNBA player ever to reach 1,000 rebounds and 350 assists behind only Candace Parker.
Think about the weight of that. Two names, Boston and Parker, alone in that category. It speaks to her versatility, how she blends vision and passing with dominance inside. It’s just a really good job. That’s what I’m talking about. an extra dribble to get Malonga inside the cylinder of the rim. But been a strong start to the third quarter here for Indiana.
An 11-point lead has grown to 16 and Boston heading to it and one and a foul. Screen and roll and a good seal. I say this. Meanwhile, Odyssey Sims showed why her addition has been more than just depth. She became the second fastest player in franchise history to reach 50 points and 25 assists. The only one who did it faster, Caitlyn Clark.
That puts Sims right in the conversation with the Fever’s franchise player and it shows that she’s been an immediate differencemaker in Clark’s absence. Aaliyah Boston and Ezie Bagor in the center jump circle. We are underway from Indianapolis. Odyssey Sims tracks down the jump ball and lays it in. Here is Sims, one of those newcomers, slicing through the defense and gets to the rim.
I love the vertical game of the fever right now in this building. 2007, finished third all time points scored. ISA basketball history on the girls side as Odyssey Sims knocks down a three. And then came one more layer of history. Boston, Mitchell, and Sims, all scoring 20 or more points, each doing it in under 30 minutes.
That’s so rare it’s happened only six times in league history. Not for a team known for scraping together wins, but here they were flexing true offensive depth. So, the question now becomes, what happens when Clark returns to join this group? Because if a short-handed Fever team can break six records in one night, the ceiling hasn’t even been touched yet.
Okay, really great stuff. That’s the most complete game we put together in a long time. We made more free throws than they attempted. Yo, hey, that is a difference maker for us. And that will be a difference maker for us. 22 assists on 36 made field goals. Total team effort. Thousandth career rebound. Player in history to do so.
Thanks, ladies. and Kell set a new franchise record for most points in a single season. 1 2 3. What if the player who wasn’t even on the court could still be the key to saving an entire season? That’s exactly the question around Caitlyn Clark right now. She’s been sidelined since June 15th with a right groin injury, 16 straight games missed, 25 total regular season contests, plus the Commissioner Cup final.
That’s a massive hole for the Fever, who had to reinvent their identity on the fly. But every time Clark’s name gets mentioned, fans perk up because her return isn’t just another roster move. It could flip the entire playoff race. I don’t have any specifics on it. Um, I think right now it’s uh it’s dayto-day. she’s progressed in her rehab and anticipate by hopefully um what what is today? What day is today? Tuesday by hopefully end of the week she’ll be on the floor at least in practice.
What have you been missing without her? You know, I was talking to her recently about what she brought to you guys, but what do you feel like you’ve lacked when she is absent from these games? The ability to spread the floor for AB. I mean, really to have another person that can knock down a shot and and we can create some space for AB to go to work on the interior.
Coach Stephanie White has been clear about her approach. She doesn’t just want Clark thrown into games cold. She said she needs to see her back in full practice. Live in practice, as she explained, not only building endurance, but handling contact across the full 94 ft. That’s the bar because the team isn’t thinking about a scattered return.
They’re weighing whether Clark can physically take every bump, every push, and do it across playoff level minutes. And make no mistake, the clock is ticking. The Fever sit at 20 and 18, holding on to the six seed by only half a game. Six games remain and they’ll see the Sparks, Valkyries, Mercury, Sky, Mystics, and Lynx.
That’s a mix of must-wins and potential landmines. Drop a couple and the playoff picture gets tense. Win out and suddenly Indiana could climb into real momentum. It’s a razor’s edge and Clark’s status sits directly in the middle of it. Just curious on a big picture, was Kaitlin able to go through your little walk through or whatever you normally do? And and what do you want to see ultimately to to get comfort whenever the time comes? Yeah, she went through our walk through um yesterday.
Today it was it was very short, you know, prior to um to game time, but uh she went through it yesterday and I want to see her in practice, you know, live in practice. um want to see her continue to to work to not just build endurance um but to be able to handle contact 94 ft as it’s going to be in game. Um and to be able to do that and sustain um from an endurance standpoint and that’s going to take multiple practices u to make sure that there’s there’s no um regression and you know as most of us know when we get fatigued we look different um and
see what how she plays through fatigue. So what exactly does she bring back? Well, last season told the story. She set the fever single season scoring record in her first year. Now, Kelsey Mitchell has just passed that in her absence. Imagine pairing Clark’s limitless range with Mitchell’s slashing and Boston’s inside dominance.
Add Sims veteran play and Hull’s defense, and you’re not just talking about a playoff hopeful. You’re talking about a team that forces every opponent into matchup nightmares. But here’s where it gets tricky. White mentioned the concern isn’t just when Clark returns, but how ready she’ll be. Endurance, conditioning, physicality.
It’s all part of what determines if she can elevate her teammates or if she’ll need to ease back in. The domino effect of her return would be immediate. Boston could see more open looks inside. Mitchell would have another creator alongside her. Defenses would stretch so far out that players like Hull and Bby could thrive off open space.
The bigger question though, can Clark return healthy enough in time to turn this team from clinging to a playoff spot into a contender nobody wants to face? Because her comeback wouldn’t just be about one player. It would be about transforming all this potential into championship level reality. And when you look back at the night Indiana broke six records without her, the thought becomes impossible to ignore.
This might only be a preview of what happens when the Fever are finally at full strength. This win wasn’t just about the scoreboard. It gave Indiana something more lasting. An identity built on toughness, depth, and a belief that even without their star, they can still dominate. Six records in one night showed this roster isn’t waiting for tomorrow.
They’re already building history today. Now, picture what happens once Caitlyn Clark steps back onto the floor. Add her scoring, her vision, and her leadership to Boston, Mitchell, Sims, Hull, and the rest. That’s a group built for 2025 and beyond. With Clark’s return on the horizon, the records we saw may only be the beginning of a dynasty.
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