Clark Suspension Lifted; Fever Host Liberty Tuesday
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- Caitlin Clark saw her eighth technical foul of the season — which triggers an automatic one-game suspension — rescinded by the WNBA less than two hours after Saturday's game against Chicago, with replay showing Sky guard Natasha Cloud bumped her into the referee along the baseline.
- Indiana halted a two-game skid with a 90-86 win at Chicago, and Clark set a WNBA single-season record with her sixth game of at least 25 points and 10 assists (26 and 11), while Kelsey Mitchell (27 points) set the league mark with 16 straight games scoring 20-plus.
- Clark and Mitchell have combined for 516 points over the past 10 games, a WNBA record for any teammate duo over any 10-game span, and have each scored 25-plus in the same game eight times this season.
- New York carries a four-game winning streak into Tuesday after crushing the defending-champion Aces 111-71 on Sunday in Brooklyn, though Las Vegas was playing a second game in under 24 hours without A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, and Jackie Young.
- Breanna Stewart logged a season-low 23 minutes in the rout as New York's bench scored 58 points — the third-most ever by Liberty reserves — while the club remains without injured starters Leonie Fiebich and Satou Sabally.
- Indiana and New York split their two regular-season meetings with each winning at home via a double-digit comeback, and the article notes the clubs could easily meet again in the playoffs.
Why it matters: Clark's rescinded suspension preserves the league's premier individual-vs-superteam narrative for a nationally-televised ESPN game (7:30 ET) with direct seeding implications, since the Fever and Liberty are projected playoff opponents. Indiana leads the WNBA in scoring at 95.9 PPG while New York has scored 92-plus in eight straight games — both records — making this the highest-octane matchup of the week for bettors and viewers alike.
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