Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark has been ruled out for the remainder of the 2025 WNBA season. She has spent the majority of the season injured and going through a tumultuous rehab process coupled with failed attempts to return. She hasn't played since July 15 . 

Clark, the 2024 No. 1 pick, had been limited to 13 games this season when she suffered a right groin injury in the final minute of the Fever's win over the Connecticut Sun.

Caitlin Clark announced on social media Thursday night…

"I had hoped to share a better update, but I will not be returning to play this season," Clark posted. "I spent hours in the gym every day with the singular goal of getting back out there, disappointed isn't a big enough word to describe how I am feeling."

“This has been incredibly frustrating, but even in the bad, there is good. The way the fans continued to show up for me, and for the Fever, brought me so much joy and important perspective. I am so proud of how this team has only gotten stronger through adversity this year. Now it’s time to close out the season and claim our spot in the playoffs.”

This brought a swift reaction from many of the Caitlin Clark mob.

Here are the facts that not surprisingly, only actual WNBA fans will acknowledge, it would’ve been very foolish for Caitlin Clark to risk further injury. In fact, if the Indiana Fever elected to treat Caitlin Clark with the same level of medical malpractice that the Indiana Pacers did with Tyrese Haliburton, and she came back and played and injured herself worst like Tyrese Haliburton did, and would have to miss the entire season next year like Tyrese Haliburton will, that would’ve been even more of a catastrophe……as it is for Tyrese Haliburton. 

Of course CC wants to play, just as Tyrese Haliburton wanted to play in the NBA finals but it’s not up to them. Any player is going to want to play that’s the way Athletes are wired no matter what age or level. If you ask a middle school basketball player if they wanted to try a play in a big game even though they’re injured nine times out of 10 they’re going to say yes. It’s ingrained in athletes to throw caution to the side, and sacrifice your body and health for the good of the team. 

On the walls of many high school weight rooms, coaches love to put quotes like,

 “Pain Is Weakness Leaving Your Body” 

Or 

The Pain You Feel Today Will Be The Strength You Feel Tomorrow” 

Or 

“You Either Quit Or You Keep Going. They Both Hurt” 

Or 

“That which does not kill us will only make us stronger”

(Attributed to 2Pac or Nietzche whichever will drive home the gladiator, ignore your body and sacrifice for the team message) 

That’s why it’s such a ridiculous argument that people make when they say Tyrese Haliburton said he wanted to play or RG III said he wanted to play or Jayson Tatum or Kevin Durant said he wanted to play. Of course they are going to want to play. That’s what athletes have been programmed to do. 

But in every case, the medical team should have never cleared any of them to play. They are the doctors, the trainers, the medical professionals and they didn’t do their job and they should all be held accountable just as when any profession doesn’t do their job and catastrophe happens because of their negligence.

If someone goes to a doctor, and tells the doctor that they don’t like taking medicine, and the doctor signs off on them not taking the medicine, and the person dies as a result of it, would it be ok because the patient said they didn’t like taking medicine ? No. It’s the doctor’s job to give their medical, professional, diagnosis and recommendation, what they went to years of medical school and are being paid to do. Only in sports do people say, “The athlete wanted to play”  It’s your job to say, “It doesn’t matter what you want, you are not cleared to play” 

When Caitlin Clark came back in July and played in that game against the Connitcuit Sun, and re injured herself, it appeared as though they were trying to get her back for the big game against the NY Liberty, and you had all star wknd coming up, and they had the TV ratings to be concerned about. But she didn’t look right even before she re injured herself. 

But real Caitlin Clark fans should be relieved that the Fever  aren’t risking her long term health for a short sighted goal of the current playoff position. Especially when even if they did somehow squeak into the playoffs would be facing one of the best if not the best teams in the WNBA, the Minnesota Lynx and, let’s be honest……their chances of making it past them are slim to none. Maybe even less than that 

Caitlin Clark fans should breathe a sigh of relief that the Indiana Fever aren’t electing to treat their franchise player as dispensable. We have seen that script before with RG3 and it ruined his entire career. 

However, the Caitlin Clark mob doesn’t care about her actual health or about her as a person. If they did they would’ve listened to her multiple pleas with them to not use her to promote racism, hate, or bigotry. But just like her health, her opinion doesn’t matter to them. Their only concern and desire is to be able to weaponize her as the symbol of white grievance, white supremacy, the great white hope, as the white damsel in distress who needs protection from all of the Black WNBA players who want to harm her because they hate her so much and are jealous of her. Now, they can’t run with any of those narratives anymore. At least not until next season.