Golden State Valkyries select Fever’s Temi Fagbenle in WNBA expansion draft
At 6-foot-4, the 32-year-old Fagbenle averaged 6.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 0.9 assists over 19 minutes per game for the Indiana Fever in the 2024 season.
At 6-foot-4, the 32-year-old Fagbenle averaged 6.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 0.9 assists over 19 minutes per game for the Indiana Fever in the 2024 season.
Unrivaled Basketball, a 3-on-3 league co-founded by two WNBA stars, announced the rosters for its six teams on Wednesday without Clark taking any of the 36 available spots. ESPN reported that the Indiana Fever star does not intend to play.
Clark played 18 holes Wednesday in what was by all accounts the most watched pro-am round in LPGA Tour history.
New Indiana Fever coach Stephanie White and members of the team’s front office expressed their thoughts on White’s return to the franchise during a Monday afternoon introductory news conference.
The hiring returns White to Indianapolis, where she was the Fever head coach from 2015 to 2016, before she left to run Vanderbilt University’s women’s basketball program.
If the Indiana Fever are interested in hiring Stephanie White as head coach, as media sources have reported, the WNBA team’s path is now much clearer.
Media speculation after Sunday’s announcement landed solidly on Connecticut Sun Coach Stephanie White as a likely candidate to replace Sides.
The Women’s National Basketball Players Association said it has a handful of priorities for negotiations, including getting a cut of revenue, higher salaries, and improving benefits for retirees and pregnancy.
The Indiana Fever star became the first rookie to make the team since Candace Parker did it in 2008. She’s the fifth rookie ever to have the honor.
If the union does opt out, the current CBA, which was set to expire in 2027, will still be in effect next season, so the two sides have a year to come to an agreement.
The league also will change the opening-round format in the playoffs to ensure the lower seeded team plays a home game.
The move comes just two weeks after the team announced longtime executive Kelly Krauskopf would return in the role of president of business and basketball operations.
The loss prevents the Fever from returning home for a sold-out game Friday night in Indianapolis, where tickets on the secondary market were priced at hundreds to thousands of dollars.
Kelly Krauskopf led the Indiana Fever from 2000 to 2018 and built the team into one of the league’s most successful franchises, with 13 postseason appearances and three WNBA finals berths in seven years.
Todd Taylor explains how the Indiana Fever and Pacers are using rapidly advancing technology to build customer profiles of attendees, customize the communication and offers they receive and adjust ticket pricing.
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark missed 10 of her first 11 shots after getting poked in the eye in the team’s 93-69 loss to the host Connecticut Sun on Sunday.
More than five months after the Indiana Fever drafted Caitlin Clark at No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft, local sports and tourism leaders are eager to further grow the state’s role in women’s sports.
The Indiana Fever rested their starters for most of their final regular-season game Thursday night in Washington, D.C., allowing the host Mystics to pull out a 92-91 victory before a crowd of 20,711, the largest in WNBA regular-season history.
The NCAA’s all-time leading scorer added another scoring title to her résumé during a 110-109 victory Sunday over the Dallas Wings at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
Caitlin Clark is up to 321 assists in her first year in the WNBA, breaking the mark of 316 set last season by Alyssa Thomas of the Connecticut Sun.