NEW YORK — Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever will face Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky in primetime to tip off the inaugural WNBA Rivals Week in August.
Other games will include two between New York and Minnesota in a WNBA Finals rematch; a matchup of Paige Bueckers and Dallas against Clark’s Fever; and Atlanta’s Brittney Griner facing her old Phoenix Mercury squad.
The week will be sponsored by Ally Financial, the newest partner for the league this season.
“You can have a great partnership, but you also have to have great activation,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a Zoom interview. “There’s going to be a full slate of games that week and that’s going to be a cool part of the activation.”
Games over the rivalry week will be broadcast on a variety of networks, including the primetime game between the Fever and Sky on CBS on Aug. 9 to begin it. The NBA has had a Rivals Week for three years now.
Engelbert has mentioned in the past how important rivalries can be to grow the sport. The league started the Commissioner’s Cup in 2021 and that in-season tournament has helped spawn rivalries between New York and Las Vegas as well as the Liberty and Lynx over the past few seasons.
“What Cathy and her team have done with the league, the…
