Caitlin Clark's Fever, Tyrese Haliburton's Pacers more than just Indy neighbors

Caitlin Clark’s Fever, Tyrese Haliburton’s Pacers more than just Indy neighbors

Caitlin Clark is twice disappointed how the NBA final is running. First, the Indiana Pacers lost game 4. Two, Clark cannot be there for game 6.

Clark and the Indiana fever have a good reason why they will be 3: 2 or 3: 2 with 3: 3 or 3: 2 on Thursday, as an Indiana die until then 3: 2 or 3: 2 for the Oklahoma City Thunder, depending on how game 5 on Monday evening with 3: 2.

The fever will be in the Golden State that night and the expansion -valcyries are playing.

“I was hoping that they would win it in five,” said Clark.

That can’t happen now. But somehow the fever will somehow pay attention to what is going on at home on Thursday evening. The Pacers and the fever are not just neighbors. They are basically basketball family. They have the same possession, play their games in the same building and constantly cross the paths.

And they rave about each other, with players from a team who almost always cheer the other.

“I think young children, when they look basketball, turn on and look at the pacers,” said Clark. “It is selfless. They play for each other. They play quickly. They play up. You do things right. No matter whether you are a starter or whether you come from the bank, you give your team everything you can. It’s really fun to see it.”

There was a lot about how a special time for basketball in basketball Mad-Indianapolis is, and the pacers and the fever are both indulge.

The Pacers hosted the NBA All-Star game 2024 and went to the Eastern Conference final last season. The fever turned over how many people think of the WNBA in Clarks Rookie Year last season, and swarms into their games -home and away -to see the former Iowa star. It is now the NBA final in progress. The WNBA All-Star game comes to Indy this summer, and it is not difficult to imagine Clark and the fever that makes a deep playoff run this year.

“She is an incredible player, someone I have a lot of respect for, also a good person,” said Pacers Guard TJ McConnell. “I followed her career, especially when she was collected by the fever. We are all happy to have her in Indy. It was fun to see her.”

Clark and Pacers, Tyrese Haliburton, are close friends, and that is just one of the many real and deep relationships between the franchise companies. It is not a big deal to see Pacers player at Fever Games. It always happens. It is not a big deal to see Pacers Games Fever player. You are always there.

“It was astonishing to watch the Pacers,” said Sophie Cunningham, Fever Guard. “It’s so much fun to see. I think we resemble your team a lot of how we move the ball and how we want to play.”

The fever trainer Stephanie White played her high school and college basketball in the state of Indiana and then spent most of her WNBA career with the fever. Nobody has to explain to her what the game means in the state.

“The last time I was here when the Pacers were in the final in 2000,” said White. “I remember that I was in the building and just felt all this energy. It is exciting. There is no better place, the epicenter of basketball in Indiana and Indianapolis.”

Caitlin Clark is a fever in her second WNBA season. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

She sees some parallels between the build -up of the Pacers an candidate and how the fever tries to become one again.

“The way you built and rebuilt with the squad, the patience you showed in the squad and in the squad movement, the adversities with which you were confronted at the beginning of the year,” said White. “A year ago, they were so fast, exciting offensive team, to be a solid defensive team that won regular games and playoff games for them when the offensive doesn’t really flow.”

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

Clark made it clear that the teams really have an advantage of being nearby.

“They are more good people more than anything,” said Clark. “You are good people. Well, I was really lucky enough to be here at that time.”

Reporting by the Associated Press.

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