Caitlin Clark reveals her ‘welcome to the W’ moment when she injured herself early in the 2024 season.
Caitlin Clark The WNBA rookie season was a record-setting season, but she also remembers the moment she knew she was in the professional game.
Her “welcome to the WNBA” moment.
Clark appeared on the latest “New Heights” podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce and was asked about the moment she was greeted by her colleagues WNBA players.
She knew the answer immediately.
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“Somebody set a screen on me, and I hit the girl perfectly by the ear where my eardrum popped. And it popped,” Clark said of her Fever game against the New York Liberty on June 2. “I knew it immediately because I had already done it myself [while tubing in a lake]. It hurts a lot. … That was my welcome to the W moment.”
Clark said her ear wasn’t bleeding, but her hearing wasn’t the same for several weeks.
“It takes months to heal,” Clark added. “So after the season, the doctor had to go back and forth and see if it would close. And if it doesn’t close, you have to have a minor procedure. But luckily, it closed. So I was fine.”
The Liberty’s 104-68 loss against the Fever was Clark’s 11th game of her rookie season.
The injury occurred in the fourth quarter of the offense, and Clark received the attention of the trainers on the bench before having to return to the locker room at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Clark missed the rest of the game.
“I don’t want to explain it. It would probably be pretty nasty. But, no, I feel good,” Clark told reporters at the time of the injury. “I can’t hear well in one ear.”
The injury did not stop Clark from breaking numerous records, including most assists in a season.
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Clark was named Time’s Athlete of the Year and 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year. She was also named a WNBA All-Star for the first time.
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