The Indiana Fever wanted to make some upgrades to the roster with a view to vie for a WNBA championship and provides Caitlin Clark further firepower on each side of the ball.
The staff has finished simply that.
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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, #22, brings the ball up court docket towards the Chicago Sky in the course of the first half at Wintrust Area in Chicago on Aug. 30, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports activities)
The Fever re-signed Kelsey Mitchell, acquired Sophie Cunningham from the Phoenix Mercury and added Natasha Howard, DeWanna Bonner and Sydney Colson. In an offseason that noticed the Las Vegas Aces commerce Kelsey Plum to the Los Angeles Sparks, the Fever might have made a number of the shrewdest strikes which have gone underneath the radar.
“I set to work out with DB. As some offseason leagues and abroad stuff kinda wraps up, loads of them will begin getting again and I feel will probably be loads of enjoyable to get within the gymnasium and be with my teammates and simply beginning placing the items collectively and see what works or what does not,” Clark stated at Bonner’s introductory press convention, by way of CBS Sports activities. “However I feel we will have loads of completely different choices to do loads of various things. I feel that is what’s tremendous thrilling.”
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Connecticut Solar ahead DeWanna Bonner, #24, works towards the basket as Minnesota Lynx guard Natisha Hiedeman, #2, defends in the course of the first half of Recreation 5 of a WNBA basketball semifinals on Oct. 8, 2024 in Minneapolis. (AP Picture/Abbie Parr, File)
Clark, Mitchell and Aliyah Boston shined vibrant within the 2024 season. Clark received the Rookie of the Yr award and obtained some MVP votes. Mitchell was an All-Star for the second straight season. Boston was additionally an All-Star for the second time and constructed momentum after her rookie yr.
Add gamers with playoff expertise and a coach in Stephanie White, who coached the Connecticut Solar the final two seasons to at the least 27 wins, and the Fever have become formidable contenders for the WNBA title in 2025.
Bonner is a six-time All-Star and two-time WNBA champion in her personal proper. She can be not one to be intimidated or messed round with, as she has confirmed to again up her teammates regardless of which staff she is taking part in for. She proved that within the playoffs final season when she and Clark had an in-game spat.
“I feel it is simply two aggressive gamers that need to win and push their staff to recover from the end line. It was the playoffs, so feelings are excessive, tensions are excessive,” she recalled, by way of the Indy Star.
Bonner added she and Clark had a great exercise to construct chemistry with Clark.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, #22, drives the ball towards Connecticut Solar ahead DeWanna Bonner, #24, within the first quarter at Mohegan Solar Area on Might 14, 2024 in Uncasville, Connecticut. (David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports activities)
“I am simply right here to hopefully give my management recommendation,” Bonner added. “I do not assume I must push her to be any kind of participant that she is not already is, and I am simply joyful to be right here, and I hope I can provide her some information to deliver her recreation to a special stage.”
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Expectations might be excessive for Clark and the Fever in her second WNBA season.
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