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Caitlin Clark whitethorn person had immoderate bizarre requests since taking nan hoops segment by large wind but she sewage a peculiarly overseas 1 connected Friday night.
The 22-year-old was fixed a opinionated ovation by her caller location fans arsenic she turned retired to support nan Indiana Pacers successful their NBA playoff game.
The WNBA's No. 1 wide draught prime and Division I's profession scoring leader revved up a raucous crowd by pumping nan accelerator of a replica IndyCar earlier Game 3 against nan Milwaukee Bucks.
But arsenic she sat successful nan stands to watch nan crippled unfold, 1 instrumentality adjacent asked Clark to motion her ultrasound picture.
Laughing, Clark kindly obliged and scrawled her autograph onto nan image earlier handing it backmost to nan ecstatic fan.
Caitlin Clark was bizarrely asked to motion a fan's ultrasound image astatine a Pacers playoff game
Laughing, Clark obliged and scrawled her autograph onto nan image earlier handing it back
It was Clark's first nationalist quality connected nan Gainbridge Fieldhouse tribunal since nan Indiana Fever drafted her past week.
Naturally, nan astir 17,000 fans collapsed into large applause for nan city's newest superstar.
Clark did not speak but erstwhile she joined her caller Fever teammates midway done nan 2nd 4th to flip T-shirts into nan stands, seasoned defender Erica Wheeler did.
'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 conscionable mightiness make it look that measurement - if it makes its first playoff quality since 2016.
Aliyah Boston and Clark propulsion tee-shirts to fans during a clip retired during nan first half
It was Clark's first nationalist outing astatine nan Gainbridge Fieldhouse tribunal since Indiana drafted her
But Clark's beingness already has spurred a change. The Fever are already 1 of nan WNBA's hottest tickets - arsenic was nan lawsuit during her assemblage profession astatine Iowa erstwhile sellouts became nan norm and tv ratings deed grounds highs.
Ticket income successful Indiana already person spiked and earlier she's moreover played a pro game, immoderate teams including two-time defending WNBA champ Las Vegas person already moved location games to larger venues.
Clark arrived successful Indianapolis past Wednesday for an introductory news conference, past returned location pinch her family to Iowa.
She was backmost successful municipality Friday nighttime for nan Pacers first location playoff crippled since April 21, 2019, and will instrumentality astir for nan commencement of training campy Sunday.
