Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark is nearing the end of her remarkable WNBA rookie season, with just one regular season game remaining. Indiana is locked into the sixth playoff seed and could face the Las Vegas Aces, Connecticut Sun, or Minnesota Lynx in the first round. Clark is averaging 19.5 points, 8.4 assists, and 5.7 rebounds per game—numbers no player in WNBA history has ever achieved over an entire season. This is just one of the many records she has set during her debut year. Ahead of Indiana’s final regular season game, Clark shared seven photos on Instagram, which quickly garnered over 210,000 likes and 1,500 comments in less than 24 hours. Among the comments was a message from LSU Women’s Basketball star Flau’jae Johnson, who wrote, “Indy on the map.”\
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— playoff cc akgae (@clrkszn) September 17, 2024
Johnson played alongside Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese at LSU, where the duo won a national championship in 2023. Johnson, a standout player at LSU, was named the 2022-23 SEC Rookie of the Year and followed up with an even more impressive sophomore season. The pair’s team triumphed over Caitlin Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes in the 2023 championship, a game remembered for Reese’s viral “you can’t see me” gesture directed at Clark.
Recently, on her “Unapologetically Angel” podcast, Reese shared that her relationship with Johnson has cooled over time, though there’s no animosity between them. “I still support Flau’jae,” Reese said. “We aren’t as close as we used to be. And there’s no hard feelings or anything, but we aren’t as close.”
