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00:00WNBA is certainly heating up. We had a good, good schedule yesterday. Four games on the
00:07card. Now, record-wise, this game we're going to talk about, maybe not the best one, but
00:11if you want to talk about anticipation-wise, the people were ready to go. It was the Sky
00:15Fever yesterday, and it did not disappoint. 88-87, Sky over the Fever, with a big comeback.
00:22Superstar performances by Angel Rees, 25 points, 16 rebounds. Katelyn Clark-Chipton with 17
00:27points, 13 assists, and 6 rebounds in that game. We saw everything we wanted, including
00:33an atmosphere that was charged and ready to go, and the superstars didn't disappoint.
00:37The WNBA, that rookie class, Ben, really giving it to us now.
00:43Really giving it, and that's really the candy I'll ask, because so much expectation was
00:47paid into these rookies entering. Katelyn Clark, Angel Rees, unfortunate for Tam Brink
00:52that her season has come to a close, but across the league, also in Chicago, Camila
00:58Cardoso, Nika Mule now with the Seattle Storm. So many rookies on display, and they have
01:03all risen to the occasion. Let's focus on what happened yesterday in Chicago. Indiana,
01:10after playing 11 games in the first 20 days of the WNBA season, often against the Sun,
01:17the Liberty, the Aces, it was a grueling gauntlet for Katelyn Clark, Leah Boston, and the rest
01:22of the Fever to get their feet wet here in 2024. They were 2-9, but starting to find
01:28their footing. They entered yesterday on a 4-game win streak, victorious in 5 of their
01:33last 6, as they have had some more time to develop, and seemed as though they would make
01:38it 5 straight wins, up by 11 at the start of the 4th, up by as many as 12, but enter
01:45Angel Rees, who Katelyn Clark is doing historic things, as expected. Angel Rees, matching
01:52those words as well. 25 points, 16 rebounds yesterday. The first rookie, Donnie, since
01:59Asia Wilson, during her rookie campaign back in 2018, to post a 25-point, 15-rebound performance.
02:07Angel Rees, 8 consecutive double-doubles. That is a record for a WNBA rookie in the
02:13history of the league for the most consecutive double-doubles. Nobody's had more than 6 in
02:18a row. Rees has 8, and Katelyn Clark, not bad on the other side. 5 triples, 17 points,
02:2513 dimes. Chicago came all the way back for a victory. Indiana does cover as a slight
02:312.5-point underdog, but you look at the 3 games between these 2 that have dueled both
02:37in college basketball, LSU and Iowa, the national championship game in 2023, of course an Elite
02:448 matchup in the 2024. Big dance now 3 times here in their WNBA careers. All 3 games decided
02:52by 8 points or less. 2 of the 3 decided by just a single point. And Donnie, as you well
02:58know, because you were tuned in for the final 4th quarter last week in the matchup between
03:03these 2 clubs in Indianapolis, it might have been 8 points at the end, but it was much
03:08tighter throughout the final few minutes of regulation. It is a rivalry between Katelyn
03:14Clark and Angel Rees, and although the discourse has gotten out of hand at times, the actual
03:20basketball played between these 2 and their teams has been sensational. And again, you
03:26set high expectations for things and people in your life, often they do not match said
03:32expectations. Both Clark and Rees are rising above the expectations that were already a
03:38very high bar to clear.
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