Is Caitlin Clark playing tonight? Fever star's injury status vs Mercury
Once again, the Fever will do so without star guard Caitlin Clark. Per WISH-TV's Angela Moryan, the second-year pro has officially been ruled out of her ninth straight regular season contest with her right groin injury.
That now means Clark has missed 18 regular season games in 2025 with various injury ailments and 19 contests overall, including the WNBA Commissioner's Cup final.
Clark's injury woes date to the preseason when she missed the Fever's opening preseason contest with a left leg injury. A subsequent left quadriceps injury cost Clark five games from May 28-June 10. Then a left groin injury sidelined Clark for four regular-season games and the WNBA Commissioner's Cup final.
Limited to just 13 games thus far in 2025, Clark is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists, 5 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game on 36.7% field goal shooting and 27.9% 3-point accuracy.
While fans won't see Clark return just yet on Thursday night, it does sound like Clark is making positive progress. On Sunday, ESPN reporter Holly Rowe said that Clark has begun to ramp up her conditioning work with the team.
"Well, Stephanie White did give us a small update on Caitlin that she has started some full-court running, full-speed running the last four or five days. Still not doing full basketball activities, but there has been some progress made recently," Rowe reported.
In a recent "NBA Today" appearance, Fever head coach Stephanie White commented on Clark's status and indicated the franchise will continue to practice precaution.
"Yeah, I mean, it's day-to-day right now. We're really just putting no timetable on it, going through the rehab process and then we want to reintegrate her from a strength and conditioning standpoint and then get her back to basketball activities.
"So, we're taking it one day at a time, really slow-rolling it, slow playing it this time. She tried to come back a couple of times and just had setbacks along the way, so the most important thing for us is Caitlin's long-term health, getting her back to 100 percent before we put her back on the floor," White said.
Indiana is trying to rediscover the win column after the Los Angeles Sparks snapped a five-game winning streak on Tuesday night in a 100-91 Fever loss. The Sparks moved their season series tally against the Fever to 3-0, all in games where Clark was absent with injury.
Tipoff between the Fever and Mercury is set for 9 p.m. CT with the game set to stream on Amazon Prime.
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