Kaitlin Clark's Fever, Tires Haliburton's Pacers more than just Indian neighbors

Caitlin Clark is twice as disappointed because of how NBA The finals are now going now. One, the Indiana Pacers Lost game 4. Two, Clark cannot be there for the game 6.

Clark and The Indiana fever A good reason why it will not be on the last house of the starting house of the Paisera on Thursday, when it will indiana – be or rise 3-2 or down 3-2 Oklahoma City Thunder Until then, depending on how it plays 5 on Monday night, the game host in the game 6 of the NBA finals.

The fever will be in the golden state that evening, playing expansion Walkiries.

“I was hoping he would get it in five,” Clark said.

It can’t happen now. But somehow, in a way, fever will pay some attention to what happens at home on Thursday night. Paces and fever are not only neighbors. They are basically basketball family. They have the same ownership, play their games in the same building, crossing each other all the time.

And they look forward to each other, with players from one team almost always cheering on another.

“I think young children, if you look at basketball, turn on and watch the pacer,” Clark said. “It is selfless. They play for each other. They play quickly. They play things in the right way, are you a starter, or will you go out of the bench, whether you give everything you can do in your team.” You can really look. “

It is much made of how this is a special time for basketball in basketball-Mad Indianapolis, and Pagers and fever are in it.

The pacers played the host in the game of all 2024 NBA and went to Eastern Conferences last season. Fever overturned how many people think about Vnba Last season in Clark’s legs of the year, with swarms that dress on their games – home and further – to see the former Iowa Star game. Now they happen in the NBA final. The Game of VNBA All-Star comes in Inde this summer and it is not difficult to imagine Clark and fever to play deeply this year.

“She’s an amazing player, someone I have a ton of respect, also a good person”, the guard Pacers TJ McConnell said. “I’m following her career, especially when she made a fever. We’re all happy to have it in Ind. It was fun to watch.”

Clark and pacers keep Tires Haliburton are close friends and it is just one of many real and deep links between franchises. It is not a big thing to see the players of Peigre in the matches on the fever; It always happens. It is not a big thing to see the fever players on pacers games; And they are always there.

“It was an incredible watching of the secrobe,” Garbel Guard Sophie Cunningham said. “They are so much fun to watch. I think pretty little looks like their team in the way we move the ball and the way we try to play.”

Frover Trainer Stephanie White played his secondary school and a basketball at the Faculty in the state of Indiana, and then took the majority of her VNBA playing career with a fever. No one needs to explain what the game means in the state.

“I was here the last time the pacers were in the final, back 2000. years,” said white. “I remember I was in the building and just feel all that energy. It’s exciting. There’s no better place, the epicenter of basketball in Indiana and Indianapolis.”

Caitlin Clark is VNBA season with fever in his second season. (PHOTO MADDIE MEER / GETTI IMAGES)

She sees some parallels between the ways in which the secrets built the candidate and how the fever tries to become again.

“The way they have built and restored with a list, patience they showed in the list and in the Movement of Rosters,” White said in early. “White said. “They were a fast, exciting offensive team a year ago to be a solid defense team that won the plays of regular season and playing games for them when the offense really did not flow.”

Soon the fever will be the only game in the city again. The NBA season is almost over. The others are two or three games. And then the pagers will take their places in the crowd to watch the fever for the next few weeks.

Clark said clearly: Teams really benefit from the others.

“More than anything, they are just really good people,” Clark said. “They’re good guys. So I really was lucky to be here for that time.”

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