Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has been diagnosed with a left quad strain, the team announced Monday. The injury, which will sideline Clark for a minimum of two weeks, is new territory for the previously indestructible point guard.
When Clark sits out of the Fever’s matchup with the Washington Mystics on Wednesday, it will be the first game she has missed since high school. Dating back to her freshman year of college at Iowa, she had played in 185 consecutive games with the Hawkeyes and Fever.
While Fever coach Stephanie White would obviously prefer that Clark’s ironwoman streak wasn’t coming to an end, she hopes that her floor general will be able to use the time off as an “opportunity for growth.”
“I think it’s a great opportunity for Caitlin to watch the game from the sideline, to grow in a coaching kind of mindset,” White told reporters after practice on Monday. “And see some different things that we might be talking about on film, addressing in practice — to see it develop in live action.
“As players you see [the game] in a micro viewpoint, and when you’re on the sideline and you’re watching it as a whole, you get to see it a different way from a macro viewpoint. I think it’s gonna…
