Fever's Clark first with 40-point, 10-assist game
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- Caitlin Clark scored a career-high 45 points with 10 assists, four steals and two blocks — the first 40-point, 10-assist game in WNBA history — as the Indiana Fever beat the Seattle Storm 110-107.
- Clark became the fastest player in WNBA history to hit 200 career 3-pointers, reaching the mark in 74 games and breaking Katie Smith's previous record of 81.
- Clark scored her 45 points in 29 minutes and 28 seconds, making her the first WNBA player to reach 45 in fewer than 30 minutes, per ESPN Research; the total is also a Fever franchise record.
- Kelsey Mitchell added 30 points for Indiana (15-10), making Clark and Mitchell the first teammates in league history to post a 40-point game and 30-point game in the same contest.
- Clark sealed the win in the final minute, blocking Flau'jae Johnson's fast-break layup with 54.9 seconds left before hitting a go-ahead 3-pointer and going 4-of-4 from the free-throw line in the final 17 seconds.
- Dominique Malonga posted 28 points and 14 rebounds for Seattle, which dropped to 6-21 and lost its fourth straight and sixth of seven.
- Aliyah Boston sat out for Indiana with a leg injury on the first night of a back-to-back.
Why it matters: Clark stacked three league firsts — first 40-10 game, fastest to 200 threes, first 45-point game in under 30 minutes — into a single 29-minute performance that pushed the Fever to 15-10 even without Aliyah Boston, while a Seattle team now at 6-21 has dropped six of seven and showed no answer in crunch time.
