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Fans attending a long-awaited Indiana Pacers' location playoff crippled were treated to a astonishment quality by hoops sensation Caitlin Clark.
Clark was nan first subordinate selected successful nan 2024 WNBA Draft, and she will statesman playing regular-season games adjacent period wrong nan aforesaid arena wherever nan Pacers play. Clark received a opinionated ovation erstwhile she was introduced to nan crowd, and she moreover tossed a fewer T-shirts to fans.
Before nan Pacers' first postseason crippled since 2019 tipped off, Clark helped rev up a raucous Indiana Pacers crowd by pumping nan accelerator of a replica IndyCar.
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Caitlin Clark of nan Indiana Fever throws retired T-shirts during halftime of Game 3 of nan 2024 NBA Playoffs betwixt nan Milwaukee Bucks and nan Indiana Pacers April 26, 2024, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)
At 1 constituent during Clark's appearance, a instrumentality asked her to fulfill a alternatively different petition — an ultrasound autograph.
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The Indiana Fever shared a video showing a smiling Clark signing nan ultrasound photo.
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Clark stuck astir to watch nan Pacers conclusion nan Milwaukee Bucks successful overtime to return a 2-1 first-round bid lead. Clark did not speak. But erstwhile she joined her caller Fever teammates connected nan tribunal during nan 2nd 4th for nan T-shirt toss, Fever defender Erica Wheeler had immoderate words for nan crowd.
"Playoffs!" Wheeler told nan team’s emcee erstwhile asked astir this season’s goal. "We want to beryllium doing this, and we’ve sewage nan pieces. We want it to look for illustration this each night."
Indiana Fever players Aliyah Boston, left, and Caitlin Clark propulsion T-shirts to fans during a timeout successful nan first half betwixt nan Indiana Pacers and nan Milwaukee Bucks successful Game 2 of an NBA hoops first-round playoff bid Friday, April 26, 2024, successful Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Indiana has not precocious to nan WNBA playoffs since 2016.
"That’s decidedly our extremity is to get backmost to title habits," Clark said soon aft she was drafted. "I’m very fortunate to beryllium going location to an statement that really loves women’s basketball. … There’s a batch of young talent connected nan team, and conscionable getting backmost to nan playoffs and doing everything we tin to triumph a batch of hoops games is surely nan goal."
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Clark, nan NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader, vanished her college career pinch 3,951 points. The Fever originates training campy April 28, and its regular play originates May 14.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Chantz Martin is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
