Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark just did something nobody in WNBA history has ever done in the same box score — and Indiana still almost gave the game away. If you're just joining: Indiana's ceiling was never the mystery — the floor was. Before Sunday, Stephanie White's group kept turning comfortable leads into white-knuckle finishes, so here's the test: can a team with title ambitions manage possessions, fouls, and spacing once opponents punch back? That's what hangs over every late fourth quarter. This is the Indiana Fever Daily Podcast — a history-making night, an overtime survival, and four players on the injury report heading to New York. Let's get into it. Start here: Boston's 30-point double-double in the same game as Clark's 32 and 10 — that pairing is a certified WNBA first. The Boston story I've been building all week just got its receipt. Thirty and ten from Boston! People kept calling this Clark's team — now you've got two engines, not one. And yet they needed overtime to put away Chicago. That's three straight games where they've given back double-digit leads — we're past wondering if it's a problem. Now connect the dots: four players were listed out before the Liberty game. The Step Back had late-game execution first on the list of things that crack when a roster gets thin, and Indiana's already been cracking late even at full strength. Four out? Against New York? That's the best team in the league, and we're showing up with a skeleton crew in the exact area we're already shaky. So now the pressure point is simple — who does White trust in the last four minutes when she's got fewer bodies to rotate? That was a philosophical question Friday. Now it's math. And you can't lean on Clark for 40 hard minutes and then ask her to close cold. Something has to give in that rotation. The eyeballs keep arriving, too — record numbers tuning in to watch Indiana make it interesting in the worst possible way late. Great theater, terrible blood pressure. The Liberty matchup is the first real stress test of whether this lead problem gets worse or finally breaks the right way. We're staying on Fever contender consistency test — follow the show and you won't miss what comes next. Here's TSN:
Aliyah Boston had 34 points and 12 rebounds and Caitlin Clark added 32 points and 10 assists to become the the first pair of teammates in WNBA history to have 30-point double-doubles in the same game, leading the Indiana Fever past the Chicago Sky 114-106 in overtime Thursday night.
Boston goes 34 and 12, Clark 32 and 10 — the first WNBA teammates to each put up a 30-point double-double in the same game. That's a certified first, and it reframes everything I've been saying about this Boston-Clark pairing all week. Thirty-four for Boston! People wanted to know if she could be a number-one option next to Clark — she just answered it with the loudest game of her career. And yet — they coughed up a 19-point lead before surviving in overtime. Three straight games giving back double digits now. The duo made history; the team made it interesting in the wrong direction late. A nineteen-point lead, Cera! You don't get to hang a historic banner and a third-quarter collapse on the same night and call it clean. You don't. This contender-consistency story didn't exactly get cleaner tonight — they won, the historic box score screams elite, but holding a lead is starting to look built-in instead of like a one-off. The Fever just gutted out an overtime win over Chicago, but now they're heading to New York four players short. When a WNBA team is that thin, where does it usually crack first — and how does that line up with what the Liberty do to you? The short answer is late-game execution — and Indiana was already shaky there before the injury report hit. Per SI, the Fever have squandered a double-digit lead in three straight games, including a blown 19-point cushion against Chicago before they barely survived in overtime. When the bench is depleted, you lean harder on starters in the fourth, and tired legs are when those unforced errors show up — like Kelsey Mitchell fumbling the ball out of bounds with five seconds left in regulation, which let Chicago tie it and force OT. Against New York, that's especially risky because the Liberty are built to punish those moments. In the June 6 matchup, per SI, Clark picked up her fifth foul with 6:26 left in the fourth while Indiana was actually up three. She sat, and the Liberty pulled away 83-75 behind late buckets from Breanna Stewart and Pauline Astier. CBS Sports also flagged that Clark is guarding on-ball more this season, which pushes her foul rate up, and a short-handed rotation makes those rest windows harder to find. Per CBS Sports, Clark, Mitchell, and Boston already account for 63 percent of Indiana's points and assists, so when you lose bodies around them, even more lands on those three. So if Clark's foul trouble is what lit the fire last time, can Indiana's coaching staff actually protect her better with even fewer rotation options? That's the live question — and Stephanie White knows it. After the June 6 loss, she acknowledged the team didn't protect Clark, even while Clark was putting the blame on herself, per MARCA. So tonight, watch whether White can get creative enough with a short bench to manage Clark's minutes and foul exposure into the fourth. That's the exact window where New York already showed it knows how to strike. If you like keeping up with the Fever every day, check out Angel City Daily Podcast — a daily ACFC supporter briefing with match reaction, NWSL standings, roster moves, women’s soccer in Los Angeles, and supporter buzz. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts.
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