The Indiana Fever are coming into the ultimate stretch of the season with out their greatest star, and the query on everybody’s thoughts is similar: when will Caitlin Clark return?
Clark’s teammate Sophie Cunningham has spoken out on the scenario.
Clark hasn’t performed since struggling a proper groin damage on July 15 in opposition to the Connecticut Solar, lacking 13 straight video games since then. The Fever proceed to label her as day-to-day, however her teammate Sophie Cunningham admitted this week that no one has a solution, not even Clark herself.
“I don’t know,” Cunningham mentioned on the most recent episode of her Present Me One thing podcast. “Everybody retains asking, and I’m like actually, ‘She doesn’t even know.’ It’s similar to a day-by-day, legit sort of factor. And so yeah, she’s shut…”
Skip Bayless lately theorized that Clark’s absence could also be extra psychological than bodily, suggesting she’s taking a break from the “hate, physicality, bullying, and jealousy” round her. Cunningham, nevertheless, wasn’t having it.
“That’s actually bull—t,” she mentioned. “Like, nobody’s mendacity. Right here’s the factor. Whenever you’re an elite degree participant, you not with the ability to play is the toughest half, mentally, bodily, emotionally. what I imply? Prefer it’s not taking part in. It’s once you’re taking part in is like once you’re it’s part of it. Such as you’re constructed for that. So when individuals say stuff like that, I’m similar to ‘Shut up.’”
For Clark, the most important hurdle now isn’t well being, however conditioning, Cunningham says.
“However such as you even have to recollect she may very well be taking part in if it wasn’t within the WNBA by now, however at this degree, with how deep and the way good persons are these days in our league, which is the very best it’s ever been, such as you simply can’t be good,” Cunningham added. “It’s important to be on high of your recreation. And so, simply making an attempt to get her again in recreation form, I feel, is what they’re making an attempt to do. It’s actually a day-to-day factor. I’m not withholding any data. I simply actually don’t know.”
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