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Fever falter without Caitlin Clark as Liberty dominate heading into All-Star weekend
TheIndiana Fever fell to the New York Liberty in their final game before the All-Star break this weekend as star guard Caitlin Clark was sidelined with a groin injury.Breanna Stewart led the Liberty with 24 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists and Sabrina Ionescu added 15 points and nine assists in the 98-77 win over the Fever on Wednesday night.The Liberty controlled most of the game asClark was ruled out just before tip-off with a groin injury, marking her third absence of the season due to injury.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS"Look, weve faced adversity. Theres no doubt about it. But weve also grown through it and weve talked about it from day one no matter what keeps coming at us and every team in the league has faced some sort of adversity," Fever head coach Stephanie White said after the game."Weve got to stop talking about building consistency and weve got to start doing it. Weve got to understand that every single day were going to see opponents' best shots and weve got to be ready for it. And then weve got to find I think some sort of dog in us, right? We play hard and at times we can be disruptive and be really good on the defensive end, and at the end of the day, thats got to be consistent for us."White said the team is looking for a "reset" heading into theWNBA All-Star break which will be hosted by Indiana beginning on Friday. Clark is due to compete in the 3-point contest, alongside Ionescu, and was named a captain in Saturdays All-Star Game.FEVER COACH SAYS CAITLIN CLARK'S ALL-STAR GAME APPEARANCE UP IN THE AIR AS TEAM FOCUSES ON 'LONG-TERM' HEALTHBut her latest setback has raised questions about Clarks availability for the weekend."No discussion yet about this weekend," White told reporters before the game. "There was imaging done and obviously, we're ruling her out for tonight but there hasn't been any discussion beyond tonight."Clark is dealing with her second groin injury of the year. White said she does not believe that Clarks latest injury, which was sustained in the final minutes of Tuesday nights win over the Connecticut Sun, is the same as her previous injury. Clark has also missed five games early into the season because of a quad injury."I'm not really sure that it's a re-injury as much as a different kind of injury. I know oftentimes when you're working with injuries in the groin and the quad and the hamstring and all of those things, there's just they're all kind of tied together and it's not always just one thing."The Fever dropped to 4-6 in games without Clark after Wednesday night's loss. Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana with 16 points. The Fever will return from the All-Star break on Tuesday where they will facethe Liberty in Brooklyn again.The Associated Press contributed to this report.Follow Fox News Digitalssports coverage on X, and subscribe tothe Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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