Sunday’s WNBA motion noticed rookies Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese placed on standout performances.
Clark led the Indiana Fever to a 92-75 win over the Seattle Storm and set a brand new league report.
The 22-year-old—now the all-time chief in assists for a rookie in a single season with 232—broke the report in simply her twenty eighth sport within the league. The earlier report holder, Ticha Penicheiro, set the report 25 years in the past in 1998.
“Ticha has been an enormous fan of mine ever since I used to be in faculty and any person that has all the time been proper there to congratulate me or simply be any person that gives recommendation,” Clark stated postgame. “So to cross any person like her, I’m simply without end grateful. She’s been a legend in our sport. It’s tremendous cool, however hopefully, there’s much more of these.”
The historic second got here within the second quarter of the sport and was acknowledged by Penicheiro, who nonetheless ranks third all-time with 2,599 profession assists.
“Information are supposed to be damaged…it reveals development and evolution. Can’t consider a greater participant to interrupt it,” Penicheiro wrote in a submit on X.
Along with the report, the 22-year-old Clark completed with 23 factors, 9 assists, 5 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 1 steal within the victory over the Storm.
In the meantime, Chicago Sky star Reese continued to make her mark within the WNBA.
Though the 22-year-old’s group got here away with a loss on Sunday night time, Reese delivered a formidable efficiency with 19 factors and 20 rebounds, turning into the quickest participant in league historical past to achieve 20 double-doubles in a single season.
Reese achieved this milestone after simply 27 video games and is now solely two double-doubles shy of matching Tina Charles’ report for many double-doubles in a rookie season, set in 2010, in accordance with ESPN.
Earlier this season, Reese additionally broke the report for probably the most consecutive double-doubles in WNBA historical past.
The Sky are 1-2 for the reason that Olympic break and maintain a 1.5-game lead for the eighth and last playoff spot. Regardless of Chicago’s inconsistency, Reese continues to showcase that she’s probably the greatest younger gamers within the sport.
Reese has been dominant in her rookie marketing campaign and can doubtless battle it out with Clark for Rookie of the Yr honors. She’s averaging 13.4 factors, 12.0 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.4 steals per sport.
