INDIANAPOLIS — Caitlin Clark looked at the dwindling shot clock, crossed over to her left and launched a deep 3-pointer over the outstretched arm of DeWanna Bonner.
Air ball.
As Clark fell to the ground, the Indiana Fever superstar let the refs hear it. She felt that Bonner, the Connecticut Sun’s defensive ace, undercut her on her 3-pointer and didn’t give her a space to land. Clark pleaded for a foul call. Bonner vehemently disagreed. The two briefly came together to argue before being separated.
The whole sequence, in Game 2 of the first round of the 2024 WNBA playoffs, lasted just a few seconds of each player mirroring the unyielding fire they saw in the other. Neither competitor could’ve predicted that four months later, after the Sun ended the Fever’s season, they’d call each other teammates.
“It’s (the) playoffs, so emotions are high, tension’s high,” Bonner said Monday. “But I couldn’t be more excited to step on the court with Caitlin.”
In fact, they already have. Clark and Bonner, the Fever’s most notable free-agent signing this offseason, shared an on-court workout Monday in the Fever’s practice gym hours before the space was transformed to include a stage and dozens of chairs for Bonner’s introductory news conference. Clark sat on the…
