In April, the Indiana Fever owned the highest general choice within the WNBA Draft for a second consecutive yr.
The franchise elected to make use of the extremely coveted choose on Caitlin Clark, which added the consectious prime propesct to its roster. Whereas WNBA Draft rookie playing cards have sometimes been manufactured yearly, Clark’s card was capable of command an uncommon charge.
The cardboard offered at an public sale for an estimated $84,000.
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Apr 15, 2024; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Caitlin Clark speaks in a press convention after she is chosen with the primary general choose to the Indiana Fever n the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports activities)
The one-of-a-kind card additionally featured Clark’s autograph.
Clark’s card surpassed the document for the priciest ladies’s basketball card on document, which was set earlier this yr when somebody handed over $78,000 for an autographed 2022 Bowman College Caitlin Clark Superfractor.
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Clark’s extremely wanted WNBA draft rookie card exhibits Clark standing on a stage and posing for a photograph as she held her Fever jersey, simply moments after her title was known as on the draft.
Apr 15, 2024; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Caitlin Clark poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after she is chosen with the primary general choose to the Indiana Fever within the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports activities)
The “Blue Viper” variation of Clark’s Panini Prompt branded card is the primary time she was featured on a card with a Fever jersey.
The cardboard is now the second-highest promoting in ladies’s sports activities historical past. Greater than twenty years in the past, tennis icon Serena Williams’ NetPro autograph patch card offered for $266,400. The sale occurred in 2022. The cardboard included a chunk of one among Williams’ match-worn tennis outfits.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) indicators mini basketballs for followers following in a WNBA basketball sport in opposition to the Dallas Wings in Indianapolis, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photograph/Michael Conroy)
After ending the 2023 season with 13 wins and failing to qualify for the postseason, Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, and final yr’s prime draft choose Aliyah Boston helped revere the franchise’s fortunes. Indiana ended the 2024 common season with a 20-20 document.
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Clark completed the common season averaging 19.2 factors, 8.4 assists, and 5.7 rebounds per sport. Her assists common was the very best within the league in 2024. Connecticut Solar Alyssa Thomas averaged 7.9 assists per sport, which was the second finest within the WNBA this season.
Clark and the Fever not too long ago clinched a playoff berth. Recreation 1 of Indiana’s first spherical sequence in opposition to the Solar begins on September 22.
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