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The Herald Scotland
15-06-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
Fever vs. Liberty live: Updates, score for Caitlin Clark's return
The unbeaten Liberty carry a nine-game winning streak into the game. Sabrina Ionescu had 23 points and seven assists for the defending champions in an 85-66 victory over the Chicago Sky on June 10. Breanna Stewart added 18 points, seven defensive rebounds and five assists for New York. Here's what to know for the Fever-Liberty game on Saturday, June 14, including start time and how to watch: More: WNBA TV ratings down more than 50% since Caitlin Clark injury The Indiana Fever maintain an 80-71 lead over the New York Liberty as they enter the fourth quarter. Caitlin Clark is having an outstanding game, contributing 32 points, seven rebounds, and seven assists. For the Liberty, Sabrina Ionescu is the leading scorer with 28 points. The Indiana Fever has taken a commanding 72-59 lead after a 17-0 run against the New York Liberty. Caitlin Clark has dazzled for the Fever with 32 points with 3:28 left in the third quarter. The Indiana Fever have taken a 53-50 lead into halftime after an impressive performance by Caitlin Clark. Clark had her best first-half performance of her WNBA career, scoring 25 points in the first half, including six three-pointers. SIX THREES IN THE FIRST HALF ???? Caitlin Clark has 25 points in 13 minutes of action. — Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) June 14, 2025 Caitlin Clark has contributed 20 of the team's 41 points in her first game back after a quad strain that had sidelined her for 18 days and caused her to miss five games. Caitlin Clark appeared to be back in form after hitting consecutive three-pointers in the first quarter, giving Indiana the much-needed boost to reduce the Liberty's lead to two points. CAITLIN'S THIRD TRIPLE IN THE 1Q ???? WNBA Commissioner's Cup presented by @coinbase — WNBA (@WNBA) June 14, 2025 The New York Liberty have taken a slim early lead of 26-24 against the Indiana Fever. Sabrina Ionescu is leading the Liberty in scoring with seven points, while Nyara Sabally has contributed six points. The Fever's Caitlin Clark is back on the court after spending 19 days recovering from an injury and has recorded 14 points in the first quarter. What time is Fever vs. Liberty? The WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty -- which will count in both the regular season standings and in the Commissioner's Cup -- is set for a 3 p.m. ET tip-off at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. WNBA: The WNBA's 'Line 'Em Up' program is banking on the 3-ball How to watch Fever vs. Liberty WNBA game: TV, stream Time: 3 p.m. ET/ Noon PT 3 p.m. ET/ Noon PT Location: Gainbridge Fieldhouse (Indianapolis, Indiana) Gainbridge Fieldhouse (Indianapolis, Indiana) TV: ABC ABC Stream: ESPN+ Yes. The Fever announced Clark will play in Indiana's matchup against the New York Liberty following a five-game absence due to a left quad injury. Clark is sure she suffered the left quad strain during the Fever's loss to the Liberty on May 24 -- where she recorded a double-double with 18 points and 10 assists -- but she can't pinpoint a specific play that caused her injury. She only knows that it happened early on in the contest. "Obviously, adrenaline covers up a lot of stuff when you're in the heat of battle," Clark said on Thursday. "And after the game, I had some pain, and then we got an MRI, and that kind of gave me the result that I didn't want to see. But, you know, those types of things don't lie." USA TODAY Sports' Cydney Henderson has more on Caitlin Clark's recent injury and return. The starting lineup for the Indiana Fever against the New York Liberty consists of Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, Natasha Howard, and Aliyah Boston. Caitlin Clark is back in the starting lineup. — Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) June 14, 2025 The starting lineup for the New York Liberty against the Indiana Fever consists of Natasha Cloud, Sabrina Ionescu, Kennedy Burke, Breanna Steward and Nyara Sabally.
USA Today
14-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Indiana Fever vs. New York Liberty: TV channel, time, how to watch Caitlin Clark return
Indiana Fever vs. New York Liberty: TV channel, time, how to watch Caitlin Clark return Show Caption Hide Caption Phoenix's Satou Sabally questions league's commitment to player health Mercury forward Satou Sabally put the WNBA on blast, saying Commissioner Cathy Engelbert isn't considering players' health when it comes to scheduling Sports Seriously The Indiana Fever will host the New York Liberty on Saturday as part of the Commissioner's Cup, an in-season tournament within the WNBA. The Fever will also have Caitlin Clark back. She hasn't played since a May 24 game against the Liberty due to a quadriceps strain. Head coach Stephanie White told reporters on June 9 that Clark would participate in more practice during the week and on June 13 the team announced Clark's return. The unbeaten Liberty carry a nine-game winning streak into the game. Sabrina Ionescu had 23 points and seven assists for the defending champions in an 85-66 victory over the Chicago Sky on June 10. Breanna Stewart added 18 points, seven defensive rebounds and five assists for New York. Here's what to know for the Fever-Liberty game on Saturday, June 14, including start time and how to watch: More: WNBA TV ratings down more than 50% since Caitlin Clark injury What time is Fever vs. Liberty? The WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty — which will count in both the regular season standings and in the Commissioner's Cup — is set for a 3 p.m. ET tip-off at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. WNBA: The WNBA's 'Line 'Em Up' program is banking on the 3-ball How to watch Fever vs. Liberty WNBA game: TV, stream
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
WNBA encourages girls to ‘get buckets' with new ‘Line Em Up' campaign
The post WNBA encourages girls to 'get buckets' with new 'Line Em Up' campaign appeared first on ClutchPoints. In an effort to increase accessibility for young women interested in basketball and the WNBA, the league has announced an initiative to bring its official three-point line to courts in parks nationwide. Advertisement The initiative, dubbed 'Line 'Em Up,' will also include donations from the league to each participating park, according to a press release. 'The park has always been at the heart of basketball,' the Line 'Em Up website reads. 'The ultimate proving ground where anyone can step up and make a name for themselves. Well, almost anyone. For too long, park courts have been dominated by men, leaving women to have to fight for every inch of space on the court. While some broke through, too many have been left on the sidelines. 'And we're not about that.' The site adds that Line 'Em Up will 'give girls and women undeniable equity at the park by painting the Fire Orange WNBA 3-point line on park courts across the country.' Advertisement The color orange has been synonymous with the WNBA's branding for years, seen everywhere from the iconic orange WNBA hoodies to the panels on the official basketballs. Seeing the orange on the three-point line in the park will give young women a clear signal that they are welcome. 'When a young girl walks onto that basketball court and sees the WNBA orange 3-point line, they know that they're being represented in a democratic community space where they once were not,' WNBA CMO Phil Cook told USA Today. The WNBA three-point line is currently 22 feet and 1.75 inches from the basket — the same distance used in college and internationally. But many parks still use only the old college line (19 feet, 9 inches or more recently 20 feet, 9 inches) and the NBA line (23 feet, 9 inches). As Cook explained, that's what makes it more than just an upgrade for local parks. Advertisement 'The entire WNBA was not represented in this space,' he said. 'Dropping that line down now represents an entire league's identity and can drive participation and authenticity in this space.' Related: Aces' Becky Hammon drops truth bomb on Natalie Nakase's departure for Valkyries Related: Cowboys 2025 Draft pick shows WNBA support at Wings-Sparks
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
WNBA's 'Line ‘Em Up" initiative has league's three-point line installed at outdoor courts around the country
Bethany Donaphin, a former player and now the head of league operations for the WNBA, remembers what it was like to grow up in New York City in the 1990s loving basketball. As a tween she would make it a point during recess to play basketball out on the blacktop. Donaphin was always the only girl playing, something that looking back was a bold choice. It was a decision that took a ton of confidence and a boat load of risk to participate in a situation where she was the only girl. It took a lot of guts for a 12-year-old Donaphin to want to set herself apart, especially at a time when most girls are looking to fit in. Advertisement Donaphin's early memories resonate for many former and current WNBA players. This idea that young girls always had something to prove and were underestimated when they stepped onto an outdoor court in a park or blacktop at school has been the inescapable reality, the status quo. This summer the WNBA is looking to challenge that common experience with the launch of their new nationwide initiative 'Line 'Em Up,' which will paint the official WNBA three-point line on outdoor park basketball courts across the United States. The league will launch this officially in New York on Thursday at the outdoor courts of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and later in July the league will take the campaign to Indianapolis for WNBA All-Star Weekend. 'This is so necessary in order to represent the league in spaces that are iconic,' WNBA Chief Marketing Officer Phil Cook told NBC Sports about the initiative. 'There's not a basketball player in the world who hasn't spent some time dribbling on an outdoor space, and we, [the WNBA] belong in that space. And women, young women, have been going to the park for as long as park basketball has been happening. They just haven't had their representation in that space.' The program has been teased by WNBA players including Atlanta Dream star Allisha Gray, Lynx point guard Courtney Williams, Phoenix Mercury point-forward Alyssa Thomas and Sparks sophomore wing Rickea Jackson in addition to personalities associated with the league including GMA's Robin Roberts and ESPN's Arielle Chambers. Last week on Instagram the teases included photos of a mysterious looking blue background which included a bright orange curved line. Advertisement Last July at WNBA All-Star in Phoenix was when Cook and his team began having conversations about how the WNBA could lay down its legacy in a tangible and more vibrant way. How could the league create something that's representative and 'replicable' but also represents the work the league has done to grow the game of basketball for women, girls and nonbinary people on a larger scale? Over breakfast in Phoenix, Cook and his staff discussed how the league could pursue a project that wouldn't just last during tentpole events including the WNBA Draft, the WNBA All-Star Game, the Commisioner's Cup, the playoffs and WNBA Finals. The league was looking for something permanent. The league enlisted the independent creative marketing company JOAN to come up with a campaign that could represent the ways in which the WNBA has attempted to challenge the status quo, grow the game and encourage empowerment of girls and young people everywhere. Representatives from the marketing agency came back to Cook and his team with the idea to paint a WNBA three-point line on outdoor courts at parks across the country working in conjunction with different cities and parks and recreation departments. Advertisement 'It's a very simple replicable idea that we hope every single outdoor park across the country, and every driveway across the country chalks up their three point line in orange chalk,' Cook said. Beyond New York City and Indianapolis as the first two major places to get these new orange three-point lines, Cook sees a huge opportunity for the league's two upcoming expansion cities in Toronto and Portland to get involved in the campaign. All of the league's current 13 teams including the newest in the Golden State Valkyries have been briefed on the campaign and how they can look to execute painting orange three-point lines in parks within their local communities. As part of the campaign, the league will make a donation to each park that participates in painting an orange three-point line on their courts. To accompany the WNBA's launch of the 'Line 'Em Up' campaign, the league enlisted Korean-Canadian director Iris Kim to create a film that would introduce the program and illustrate the need for orange WNBA three-point lines across the country. The nearly four-minute video includes shots of some of the most famous outdoor parks in the country including Rucker Park in Harlem, Venice Beach in Los Angeles, and two other New York City parks in Dykman and The Cage. Later the film introduces former players Epiphanny Prince, Chamique Holdsclaw and Sue Bird in addition to current Connecticut Sun center Tina Charles, who traveled to New York during Sun training camp to be a part of the film. The four native New Yorkers explain what it was like growing up and playing on outdoor courts and the challenges that came with often being some of only young women. Advertisement 'Growing up in Queens, NY at that time, it was really hard to be a female to get on the court,' Charles said in the film. 'I know I had something to prove. We've all been through it. All the greats, all the ones that you're fans of.' And that includes Holdsclaw who told the story of how she used to hustle all the guys who underestimated her. The film also features two New York community leaders in Sharon Bond and Alex Taylor who have both founded and led organizations that try to encourage participation in basketball for women and girls. Both Bond and Taylor explain that having the new orange three-point line painted on outdoor courts is boon for representation and it sends the message that women and girls are wanted in these spaces. Bird ends the film by stating the mission statement of the entire campaign, which is that the next generation of players won't know a world without a WNBA orange three-point line painted across America. The campaign represents the very fact that the WNBA has become more mainstream and more accessible in the past few years. The league isn't distant and it's much easier now more than ever to understand that the WNBA isn't going anywhere and will be an institution that stands the test of time. Advertisement Donaphin thinks about what it would have been like if she had an orange three-point line to accompany her during those days when she was working hard on her game and often the only girl out there doing it. 'If I had had an orange line while I was going through that process, I think it would have given not just me, but the other kids around me, an understanding that, yeah, what I was doing was completely part of of what any person would do if they if they love something,' Donaphin told NBC Sports. 'And that there was a place for me there.' Check out the new 'Line 'Em Up' website and see if the WNBA's three-point line is coming to a court near you.
NBC Sports
09-06-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
WNBA's 'Line ‘Em Up" initiative has league's three-point line installed at outdoor courts around the country
Bethany Donaphin, a former player and now the head of league operations for the WNBA, remembers what it was like to grow up in New York City in the 1990s loving basketball. As a tween she would make it a point during recess to play basketball out on the blacktop. Donaphin was always the only girl playing, something that looking back was a bold choice. It was a decision that took a ton of confidence and a boat load of risk to participate in a situation where she was the only girl. It took a lot of guts for a 12-year-old Donaphin to want to set herself apart, especially at a time when most girls are looking to fit in. Donaphin's early memories resonate for many former and current WNBA players. This idea that young girls always had something to prove and were underestimated when they stepped onto an outdoor court in a park or blacktop at school has been the inescapable reality, the status quo. This summer the WNBA is looking to challenge that common experience with the launch of their new nationwide initiative 'Line 'Em Up,' which will paint the official WNBA three-point line on outdoor park basketball courts across the United States. The league will launch this officially in New York on Thursday at the outdoor courts of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and later in July the league will take the campaign to Indianapolis for WNBA All-Star Weekend. 'This is so necessary in order to represent the league in spaces that are iconic,' WNBA Chief Marketing Officer Phil Cook told NBC Sports about the initiative. 'There's not a basketball player in the world who hasn't spent some time dribbling on an outdoor space, and we, [the WNBA] belong in that space. And women, young women, have been going to the park for as long as park basketball has been happening. They just haven't had their representation in that space.' The program has been teased by WNBA players including Atlanta Dream star Allisha Gray, Lynx point guard Courtney Williams, Phoenix Mercury point-forward Alyssa Thomas and Sparks sophomore wing Rickea Jackson in addition to personalities associated with the league including GMA's Robin Roberts and ESPN's Arielle Chambers. Last week on Instagram the teases included photos of a mysterious looking blue background which included a bright orange curved line. Last July at WNBA All-Star in Phoenix was when Cook and his team began having conversations about how the WNBA could lay down its legacy in a tangible and more vibrant way. How could the league create something that's representative and 'replicable' but also represents the work the league has done to grow the game of basketball for women, girls and nonbinary people on a larger scale? Over breakfast in Phoenix, Cook and his staff discussed how the league could pursue a project that wouldn't just last during tentpole events including the WNBA Draft, the WNBA All-Star Game, the Commisioner's Cup, the playoffs and WNBA Finals. The league was looking for something permanent. The league enlisted the independent creative marketing company JOAN to come up with a campaign that could represent the ways in which the WNBA has attempted to challenge the status quo, grow the game and encourage empowerment of girls and young people everywhere. Representatives from the marketing agency came back to Cook and his team with the idea to paint a WNBA three-point line on outdoor courts at parks across the country working in conjunction with different cities and parks and recreation departments. 'It's a very simple replicable idea that we hope every single outdoor park across the country, and every driveway across the country chalks up their three point line in orange chalk,' Cook said. Beyond New York City and Indianapolis as the first two major places to get these new orange three-point lines, Cook sees a huge opportunity for the league's two upcoming expansion cities in Toronto and Portland to get involved in the campaign. All of the league's current 13 teams including the newest in the Golden State Valkyries have been briefed on the campaign and how they can look to execute painting orange three-point lines in parks within their local communities. As part of the campaign, the league will make a donation to each park that participates in painting an orange three-point line on their courts. To accompany the WNBA's launch of the 'Line 'Em Up' campaign, the league enlisted Korean-Canadian director Iris Kim to create a film that would introduce the program and illustrate the need for orange WNBA three-point lines across the country. The nearly four-minute video includes shots of some of the most famous outdoor parks in the country including Rucker Park in Harlem, Venice Beach in Los Angeles, and two other New York City parks in Dykman and The Cage. Later the film introduces former players Epiphanny Prince, Chamique Holdsclaw and Sue Bird in addition to current Connecticut Sun center Tina Charles, who traveled to New York during Sun training camp to be a part of the film. The four native New Yorkers explain what it was like growing up and playing on outdoor courts and the challenges that came with often being some of only young women. 'Growing up in Queens, NY at that time, it was really hard to be a female to get on the court,' Charles said in the film. 'I know I had something to prove. We've all been through it. All the greats, all the ones that you're fans of.' And that includes Holdsclaw who told the story of how she used to hustle all the guys who underestimated her. The film also features two New York community leaders in Sharon Bond and Alex Taylor who have both founded and led organizations that try to encourage participation in basketball for women and girls. Both Bond and Taylor explain that having the new orange three-point line painted on outdoor courts is boon for representation and it sends the message that women and girls are wanted in these spaces. Bird ends the film by stating the mission statement of the entire campaign, which is that the next generation of players won't know a world without a WNBA orange three-point line painted across America. The campaign represents the very fact that the WNBA has become more mainstream and more accessible in the past few years. The league isn't distant and it's much easier now more than ever to understand that the WNBA isn't going anywhere and will be an institution that stands the test of time. Donaphin thinks about what it would have been like if she had an orange three-point line to accompany her during those days when she was working hard on her game and often the only girl out there doing it. 'If I had had an orange line while I was going through that process, I think it would have given not just me, but the other kids around me, an understanding that, yeah, what I was doing was completely part of of what any person would do if they if they love something,' Donaphin told NBC Sports. 'And that there was a place for me there.'
