LOS ANGELES — For nearly 38 minutes, all Caitlin Clark could do was miss.
It was not what the sold-out, record crowd in Los Angeles, dotted with Clark jerseys in both Fever colors and Iowa shades, had come to witness.
Clark had scored only five points and watched in frustration as all seven of her 3-point attempts clanked off the rim. Then, with 2:24 left in the game and the winless Indiana Fever clinging to a 3-point lead against the Los Angeles Sparks, Clark stepped back from way beyond the 3-point line — 33 feet to be exact — and finally found the bottom of the net.
“I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I seriously think every shot I shoot is gonna go in,” Clark said. “Some nights are absolutely amazing and some nights you struggle to shoot it a little bit, but I want to take those shots at the end of the game. I think it’s a mindset and a confidence that you have to have about yourself.”
After an entire game of uncharacteristic misses from deep, Clark’s first make brought on a familiar face as she gave the opposing crowd a knowing smile.
She wasn’t done.
With less than a minute left and the Fever now up by only two, Clark pulled up again, this time from 28 feet, and swished. The No. 1 overall…
