Caitlin Clark gives honest update after ankle scare in Fever’s win over Dallas
Caitlin Clark came down on Alysha Clark’s foot while chasing her in the closing minute of the first half at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Friday, stayed upright long enough to keep defending the possession, then limped straight down the tunnel when the buzzer sounded.
She also banged a knee on the same play. For a few minutes, an ordinary Friday against the Dallas Wings looked like the start of another long stretch without her, and then she came back out of the tunnel and began warming up for the second half.
Clark played the third and fourth quarters without any visible restriction and finished with 29 points and 10 assists in a 98-87 Indiana win. She was on the floor for the fourth-quarter stretch that separated the game, Aliyah Boston posted a double-double alongside her, and the Fever moved to 22-12 with a second straight win after beating New York 106-92 on Tuesday.
Caitlin Clark heads to the locker room after rolling her ankle.
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Caitlin Clark’s own account of what happened
The postgame answer was short and unbothered.
“Yeah, I mean, I haven’t seen the video,” Clark said. “I think I just landed on her foot, but I feel good and obviously I was moving perfectly fine, so all I said then be good to go.”
That is the version worth taking seriously, because she said it after playing the entire second half on the ankle rather than before. A player who is protecting something does not put up 29 points in the second half of a competitive game against a Dallas team built around Paige Bueckers.
The reason the tunnel walk drew the reaction it did has absolutely nothing to do with yesterday, and of course everything to do with last season. Her 2025 was interrupted repeatedly, most significantly by a groin injury in July that cost her more than five weeks, and the return from it was complicated further by a bone bruise in the same left ankle she turned on Friday.
That stretch within minutes produced conflicting beat reports, a vague team statement about there being no fixed timeline, and a fan base that learned to treat every awkward landing as the start of something longer.
None of that history changes what the ankle actually is right now, which appears to be a turned one. It does explain why a play that ended with her walking off under her own power was treated across social media as a potential season-altering event within seconds.
Clark has now handled the two things a returning star gets measured on in the same night, which are the volume of production and the willingness to keep standing in front of contact after a scare. Indiana will be back in action tomorrow.
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