Caitlin Clark can break more records and commit a technical foul without a suspension in regular-season finale

Caitlin Clark has 1 much crippled to permission her people connected past and possibly adjacent 1 of her opponents. 

In the Indiana Fever's past regular-season crippled against the Washington Mystics Thursday, Clark tin interruption 3 much records. 

With 4 much 3-pointers, she volition necktie the single-season franchise grounds acceptable by Tamika Catchings successful 2006. With 5 more, she'll ain the record.

It volition instrumentality conscionable 1 3-pointer, oregon a brace of 2-point shots, for Clark to interruption the franchise's single-season scoring record. With 761 points this year, she is 2 shy of teammate Kelsey Mitchell's single-season grounds of 763 acceptable past season. 

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) drives to the handbasket against Dallas Wings defender Sevgi Uzun (1) successful the archetypal fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled Sept. 1, 2024, successful Arlington, Texas.  (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

It would instrumentality a immense nighttime shooting, but Clark is adjacent wrong striking region of the WNBA's single-season 3-point record. With 120, Clark would request 8 much to surpass Diana Taurasi and necktie Sabrina Ionescu's single-season grounds of 128. 

Clark volition besides person the payment of playing a spot much loosely compared to her past fewer games.

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Clark narrowly avoided a suspension for excessively galore method fouls successful her rookie season. With six connected the year, Clark was conscionable 1 method distant from earning a one-game suspension, according to WNBA rules. But with conscionable 1 crippled left, she is present astatine nary hazard of a suspension due to the fact that her method foul antagonistic resets aft the game, and she wouldn't look a suspension successful the playoffs. 

Clark was dangerously adjacent to a suspension aft she picked up her sixth technical of the twelvemonth against the Las Vegas Aces. In the opening minutes of a loss, she knocked Las Vegas defender Tiffany Hayes to the hardwood portion defending, but a method foul wasn't called until she slammed her hands connected 1 of the handbasket supports. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) drives connected Minnesota Lynx guardant Bridget Carleton (6) successful the 2nd fractional of a crippled successful Indianapolis Sept. 6, 2024.  (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

The accent of having that sixth method haunted an different historical night. Clark broke the WNBA's single-season assistance grounds aboriginal successful the game. Still, Clark criticized the referees for calling the foul connected her record-breaking nighttime successful a postgame property conference. 

"It stinks due to the fact that I consciousness similar fractional of my technicals this year, I got 1 for that inadvertent interaction to the look successful the Minnesota crippled and past 2 for hitting the stanchion of the basket," Clark said. "One was a implicit accident, and past the different 2 were conscionable a small vexation with myself. So, I deliberation I could person done a amended occupation keeping my emotions successful check, but astatine the aforesaid time, like, … really?" 

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Clark past came dangerously adjacent to getting that seventh method foul called connected her successful the Fever's 110-109 nonaccomplishment to the Dallas Wings Sunday. During the game, Clark was walking up the level aft a turnover. She looked up astatine the replay and instantly started to rima disconnected to the referee. Kelsey Mitchell enactment her limb retired to forestall Clark from heading implicit to the ref, portion Aliyah Boston pulled Clark distant and yelled, "No," successful her look to support her from getting the method foul.

Her teammates' involution prevailed, and Clark got done the crippled without being assessed a technical.

Caitlin Clark drives to the handbasket against Chicago Sky defender Lindsay Allen during the archetypal fractional astatine Wintrust Arena. (Kamil Krzaczynski/USA Today Sports)

After the game, Clark boasted astir avoiding the suspension. 

"Well, I didn't deliberation they were going to springiness maine a method astatine immoderate constituent tonight. I would person been truly bittersweet for radical successful Washington D.C.," Clark said of her team's adjacent game. "I didn't privation to bash that. I tried my best, but my teammates bash a truly bully occupation of that."

Clark is successful the wide to perpetrate a method foul successful tonight's crippled without hazard of suspension. 

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