Indiana Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark made franchise history on Tuesday when she modified into named the Eastern Convention Participant of the Week.
The WNBA Rookie of the 300 and sixty five days favourite averaged 25.0 points, 10.0 assists and 7.7 rebounds per contest from Sept. 2-8, a span where the Fever went 2-1.
Clark opened the stretch with a 24-level, 10-serve, 10-rebound triple-double right throughout the community’s 93-86 victory vs. the Los Angeles Sparks on Wednesday. The feat made her simply the sixth player in WNBA history to put up extra than one triple-doubles in a season.
Clark performed a profession-excessive 45 minutes right through Indiana’s 104-100 beyond habitual time devour close against the Atlanta Dream on Sunday and recorded her 14th double-double of the 300 and sixty five days (a single-season franchise account). Clark finished the game with 26 points, 12 assists and five rebounds on 7-for-17 taking pictures (including 4-for-13 from three-level land).
The feeble Iowa movie principal particular person’s award on Tuesday comes on the heels of her Participant of the Week honors right through Aug. 15-25 and Aug. 26-Sept. 1. Clark also gained the league’s Rookie of the Month and Eastern Convention Participant of the Month for August to boot.
In accordance with a open, the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer approaches the ultimate four habitual-season video games on the Fever’s slate simply 53 points some distance from breaking Seimone Augustus’ single-season rookie franchise account of 744 points scored.
When Clark entered the Affiliation this summer, expectations had been historically excessive. One plot or the other, the 22-300 and sixty five days-extinct has surpassed them by leading the WNBA in assists (8.5) and all beginners in points (19.2), steals (1.3) and minutes per game (35.8).
With the Fever going serve to the playoffs for the first time since 2016, the Caitlin Clark ride also can very well be getting started.
