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Caitlin Clark will have home-court advantage if she makes the WNBA All-Star Game in 2025, with Indianapolis and Gainbridge Fieldhouse — where Clark’s Fever play their home games — set to host the league’s mid-season festivities, according to ESPN.
The city hasn’t hosted the All-Star Game before, but it was the site of the NBA All-Star Game in 2024.
Clark made the 2024 All-Star Game in Phoenix last month, and she helped Team WNBA topple Team USA — which went on to win an eighth consecutive gold medal at the Olympics — by collecting four points and 10 assists, with the latter total just one shy of matching Sue Bird’s All-Star Game record.
“I feel very lucky to be a part of this weekend,” Clark told “SportsCenter” during a segment following the game, “and I think Phoenix did a tremendous job of putting this weekend on. The fans were incredible. Obviously the game was really good, and then to walk away with a W, that’s not too bad either.”
Clark could also have the opportunity to participate in the league’s 3-point contest in front of her home fans after not being one of the contestants this year.
Indianapolis and Gainbridge Fieldhouse will be a fitting site for the All-Star Game, too, as the city — and the arena — has served as a microcosm of the sport’s rapid growth, with the Fever seeing an attendance spike of 264.6 percent and jersey sale boon of 1,193 percent, according to data released by the team’s public relations staff Tuesday.
Before their home opener in May, one local hotel in the city had a massive Gatorade banner tacked to the side, and plenty of Clark jerseys — for both the Fever and Iowa, where she starred in college — filled the arena.
But by the time the All-Star break arrived, Clark’s individual play had opened up plenty of opportunities for the Fever’s other players, and that allowed Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell to make the game in Phoenix, too.
After the month-long Olympics break, the WNBA season resumes Thursday, and the Fever open their final stretch Friday at home against the Mercury.
They currently sit in seventh place, clinging to one of the final playoff spots, but Clark, Boston, Mitchell, Smith and others have helped turn their season around following a dreadful 3-10 start.
Their 17-point loss to the Sun on June 10 was followed by an 8-5 stretch to enter the season’s pause, positioning Indiana for a chance to clinch its first postseason appearance since 2016.
