Caitlin Clark, Lexie Hull on Aubrey Plaza’s visit to Indiana Fever practice
Aubrey Plaza stopped by Indiana Fever practice earlier this season for a special segment on the WNBA on NBC. Caitlin Clark and Lexie Hull share their memories from the taping.
INDIANAPOLIS — Aliyah Boston is active for Saturday’s Indiana Fever game vs. the New York Liberty. She was listed as questionable on the initial injury report with a right lower-leg injury after missing Friday’s 110-107 victory vs. Seattle.
Fever coach Stephanie White said Boston will have “some restrictions,” specifically in the first half when they plan to be more conservative with her minutes to make sure she’s “adjusting well to being back on the floor.”
“We’ll try to not have her log a long stretch of minutes,” White continued. “We’ll have a range, but relying on her and on our medical staff to communicate that in the moment to us — what it looks like, what it feels like. They’ve continued doing a great job with that.”
Makayla Timpson started in place of Boston, scoring eight points with nine rebounds against Seattle.
Boston has missed three games this season, including the front-end of a back-to-back earlier this month. She returned and played the following night..
White said Boston’s absence Friday was not related to “anything specifically” from Wednesday’s loss to Golden State, describing it as “the compilation of games, so to speak, and information.”
Boston, who is averaging 17.2 points and 8.7 rebounds through 22 games, first suffered the injury during Unrivaled in February and has been dealing with it through the WNBA season. She did not play in two of the three preseason games, then missed the first regular-season game of her professional career on May 17.
Caitlin Clark (back) was listed as probable on the injury report and will be active for Saturday’s game. She confirmed she will be on a minutes restriction, but it “won’t be a hard cap.”
Clark played 29 minutes in Friday’s dramatic win over the New York Liberty, her most since June 20 when she played 34 minutes in a 113-96 loss at Atlanta.
“Let’s get out there and see how I feel,” she said. “I woke up feeling probably as good as I could have. Sometimes it’s different as you get moving a little bit, but I feel good and I’m happy with that.”
This will be Clark’s first back-to-back since her rookie season and the third of her professional career.s
“It’s a little bit different for myself,” she said of playing on back-to-back nights for the first time in two years. “But I think it’s a great opportunity for us to continue the energy and the joy we played with , especially in that fourth quarter and bring that momentum into tonight and really build off of that.”
“Obviously everybody in this league plays back-to-backs. Somehow we we ended up with the most of them,” Clark smirked. “But it is what it is. You just step up to the challenge and I think our group’s ready for it.”
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