The Indiana Fever won their first playoff series since 2015 this season, and were five minutes away from making it back to the WNBA Finals for the first time since that same year, but fell in overtime in Game 5 of the semifinals to the Las Vegas Aces . Add in their first-ever Commissioner's Cup title and that was the type of campaign everyone in Indianapolis was expecting back in May. The route there was anything but.

The Fever's issues started during the preseason, when Caitlin Clark missed a game due to left quad tightness, and never subsided. Clark was limited to 13 games due to an array of lower-body injuries: left quad, left groin, right groin and left ankle. She never played more than five consecutive games, and didn't play after July 15. When she was on the floor, she rarely

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