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si.com | Grant Young
The Indiana Fever fell to 6-6 on the 2025 WNBA regular season after their 88-77 loss to the Golden State Valkyries on June 19. In hindsight, this felt like a trap game for the Fever.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young |Robin Lundberg
The Golden State Valkyries improved to 6-6 on the 2025 WNBA season after their 88-77 win over the Indiana Fever on June 19. San Francisco's Chase Center felt like a playoff atmosphere on Thursday, as the sold-out crowd asserted itself from opening tip-off. While most Fever road games still feel like there's a majority of Indiana fans who are there to see star guard Caitlin Clark, this was not the case for the Valkyries, as their home fans delivered for their team.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young |Robin Lundberg
Indiana Fever star guard Caitlin Clark getting shoved to the ground by Connecticut Sun veteran Marina Mabrey during their June 17 game has reignited a conversation about whether Clark is subject to unnecessarily physical treatment by her peers and opponents in professional basketball. This conversation has existed since Clark's rookie 2024 season, where she was constantly getting hit with hard fouls (many of which were ruled as flagrants).
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young |Robin Lundberg
It will take the women's basketball community a long time to forget the several scuffles that took place during the Indiana Fever's June 17 game against the Connecticut Sun. One of these scuffles centered on Sun veteran Marina Mabrey. In the quarter, she shoved Fever star guard Caitlin Clark to the ground after Clark had a brief shoving match with Mabrey's teammate, Jacy Sheldon. This led to a brief tussle between the two teams, where Mabrey and Clark both received technical fouls.
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1 week ago | 
yardbarker.com | Grant Young
Fast forward about five years, and these two are still extremely close while each embarks on their respective WNBA career. Clark's Fever are facing Martin's Valkyries on Thursday night. And Clark's welcome for Martin seems indicative of their relationship. Chloe Peterson of IndyStar posted a video of Clark playfully trying to swat the ball out of Martin's hands while she took a warm-up three-pointer before the game began.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young |Robin Lundberg
One of the most endearing friendships in all of women's basketball is between Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark and Golden State Valkyries standout Kate Martin. This friendship started way back when Clark was a freshman and Martin a sophomore with the Iowa Hawkeyes. And in a June 6 appearance on Sue Bird's Bird's Eye View podcast, Martin conveyed her skeptical first impression of No. 22. “[Clark] had come on a couple visits, and she was like a big name in Iowa. So I had heard about her," Martin said.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young
Manny Pacquiao's return to the ring against Mario Barrios on July 19 (in a bout that puts Barrios' WBC welterweight belt on the line) will be a family affair. This is because Pacquiao's 24-year-old son Jimuel is expected to make his professional boxing debut on the undercard of his 46-year-old father’s fight. Jimuel (whose actual name is Emmanuel) amassed a 6-4 amateur boxing record, but lost four consecutive fights at one point.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young
The Indiana Fever are back in action on June 19, as they start a stretch of road contests on the West Coast, which starts with a game against the Golden State Valkyries on Thursday. There's always a lot of attention on the Fever, largely because they have Caitlin Clark, who is one of the sport's biggest superstars, on their roster. Therefore, this upcoming showdown against Golden State is sure to attract a lot of eyeballs.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young
The women's basketball community is still buzzing about what happened between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun on June 17. While the basketball played during the game itself was entertaining enough, the story of the contest was the several physical altercations that occurred, which resulted in technical fouls, flagrant fouls, and ejections for members of each team. One player who didn't play a huge part in these physical exchanges is Fever standout guard Lexie Hull.
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1 week ago | 
si.com | Grant Young |Robin Lundberg
Given all of the unnecessarily physical play that occurred during the Indiana Fever's June 17 game against the Connecticut Sun — much of which centered around Fever guard Caitlin Clark, who is inarguably the WNBA's biggest star — there has been a lot of discourse among the women's basketball community about how much physicality is too much.
