INDIANAPOLIS — Kelsey Mitchell scored 20 points, Natasha Howard added 18 and the Indiana Fever moved closer to securing a playoff berth with a 97-77 win over the Chicago Sky on Friday night in a matchup that was missing both teams’ marquee players.

The Fever announced Thursday that Caitlin Clark would miss the rest of the season with a groin injury. She hasn’t played since July 15. The Sky were without Angel Reese, the league’s leading rebounder, after she picked up her eighth technical foul in her last game, meaning an automatic one-game suspension .

Then on Friday, the Sky suspended Reese for the first half of Sunday’s game for comments detrimental to the club. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune earlier in the week, Reese complained about losing and hinted she would be wi

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