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 identical: 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 towards 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 stated 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 identical to a day-by-day, legit form 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 stated. “Like, nobody’s mendacity. Right here’s the factor. While you’re an elite stage participant, you not with the ability to play is the toughest half, mentally, bodily, emotionally. You already know 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 folks say stuff like that, I’m identical to ‘Shut up.’”
For Clark, the largest hurdle now isn’t well being, however conditioning, Cunningham says.
“However such as you even have to recollect she could possibly be taking part in if it wasn’t within the WNBA by now, however at this stage, 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. “You need to be on prime of your sport. And so, simply making an attempt to get her again in sport form, I believe, is what they’re making an attempt to do. It’s actually a day-to-day factor. I’m not withholding any info. I simply actually don’t know.”
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