{"id":244626,"date":"2026-05-22T05:04:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/wnba-decides-on-potential-punishment-for-fever-over-caitlin-clark-situation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T05:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:04:02","slug":"wnba-decides-on-potential-punishment-for-fever-over-caitlin-clark-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/wnba-decides-on-potential-punishment-for-fever-over-caitlin-clark-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA decides on potential punishment for Fever over Caitlin Clark situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/indiana_fever\/17260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Fever<\/a> could have faced punishment for waiting to announce guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/players\/caitlin_clark\/911444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caitlin Clark<\/a> (back) would miss Wednesday&#8217;s home game against the Portland Fire minutes before tip-off. However, the team is getting off with just a warning.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Sports shared Thursday morning that the Fever may have violated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WNBA<\/a> rules on Wednesday night. Per league rules, player availability must be submitted by 5 p.m. local time the day before a game, except during back-to-backs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clark didn&#8217;t practice on Tuesday but wasn&#8217;t listed on the injury report. The Fever waited 100 minutes until Wednesday&#8217;s tip-off at 7 p.m. ET to reveal the guard was out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Alexa Philippou noted that the league could &#8220;take a look at&#8221; this, given there was no indication that Clark wouldn&#8217;t play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/wnba_decides_on_potential_punishment_for_fever_over_caitlin_clark_situation\/s1_13132_43867821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indiana Fever could have faced punishment for waiting to announce guard Caitlin Clark (back) would miss Wednesday&#8217;s home game against the Portland Fire minutes before tip-off. However, the team is getting off with just a warning. Yahoo Sports shared Thursday morning that the Fever may have violated WNBA rules on Wednesday night. Per league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-244626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}