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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.