Fever make number of moves to give Caitlin Clark help, including superstar she had playoff spat with

The Indiana Fever needed to marque immoderate upgrades to the roster successful bid to vie for a WNBA title and springiness Caitlin Clark other firepower connected some sides of the ball.

The squad has done conscionable that.

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, brings the shot up tribunal against the Chicago Sky during the archetypal fractional astatine Wintrust Arena successful Chicago connected Aug. 30, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports)

The Fever re-signed Kelsey Mitchell, acquired Sophie Cunningham from the Phoenix Mercury and added Natasha Howard, DeWanna Bonner and Sydney Colson. In an offseason that saw the Las Vegas Aces commercialized Kelsey Plum to the Los Angeles Sparks, the Fever whitethorn person made immoderate of the shrewdest moves that person gone nether the radar.

"I got to enactment retired with DB. As immoderate offseason leagues and overseas worldly kinda wraps up, a batch of them volition commencement getting backmost and I deliberation it volition beryllium a batch of amusive to get successful the gym and beryllium with my teammates and conscionable starting putting the pieces unneurotic and spot what works oregon what doesn't," Clark said astatine Bonner’s introductory property conference, via CBS Sports. "But I deliberation we're going to person a batch of antithetic options to bash a batch of antithetic things. I deliberation that's what's ace exciting."

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Connecticut Sun guardant DeWanna Bonner, #24, works toward the handbasket arsenic Minnesota Lynx defender Natisha Hiedeman, #2, defends during the archetypal fractional of Game 5 of a WNBA hoops semifinals connected Oct. 8, 2024 successful Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr, File)

Clark, Mitchell and Aliyah Boston shined agleam successful the 2024 season. Clark won the Rookie of the Year grant and received immoderate MVP votes. Mitchell was an All-Star for the 2nd consecutive season. Boston was besides an All-Star for the 2nd clip and built momentum aft her rookie year.

Add players with playoff acquisition and a manager successful Stephanie White, who coached the Connecticut Sun the past 2 seasons to astatine slightest 27 wins, and the Fever person turned into formidable contenders for the WNBA rubric successful 2025.

Bonner is simply a six-time All-Star and two-time WNBA champion successful her ain right. She is besides not 1 to beryllium intimidated oregon messed astir with, arsenic she has proven to backmost up her teammates nary substance which squad she is playing for. She proved that successful the playoffs past season erstwhile she and Clark had an in-game spat.

"I deliberation it's conscionable 2 competitory players that privation to triumph and propulsion their squad to get implicit the decorativeness line. It was the playoffs, truthful emotions are high, tensions are high," she recalled, via the Indy Star.

Bonner added she and Clark had a bully workout to physique chemistry with Clark.

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, drives the shot against Connecticut Sun guardant DeWanna Bonner, #24, successful the archetypal 4th astatine Mohegan Sun Arena connected May 14, 2024 successful Uncasville, Connecticut. (David Butler II-USA TODAY Sports)

"I'm conscionable present to hopefully springiness my enactment advice," Bonner added. "I don't deliberation I request to propulsion her to beryllium immoderate benignant of subordinate that she isn't already is, and I'm conscionable blessed to beryllium here, and I anticipation I tin springiness her immoderate cognition to bring her crippled to a antithetic level."

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Expectations volition beryllium precocious for Clark and the Fever successful her 2nd WNBA season.

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