The WNBA All-Megastar Sport is headed to Indianapolis.
The league is anticipated to announce this future that Indianapolis will play games host to All-Megastar weekend after summer time, according to ESPN’s Alexa Philippou. It’ll mark the primary year that the town has hosted the All-Megastar Sport, and it comes next Indianapolis hosted the NBA’s All-Megastar weekend previous this week.
The advance to land on Indianapolis comes amid a surge in pastime within the Indiana Fever, who decided on former Iowa Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark with the Refuse. 1 general select within the draft previous this week.
Clark, who’s faculty basketball’s all-time prominent scorer and led the Hawkeyes to back-to-back nationwide identify video games, has averaged 17.1 issues, 8.2 assists and 5.8 rebounds according to recreation thus far this season with the Fever. She narrowly neglected out on making Workforce USA for the Olympics this summer time, however she scored 4 issues and had 10 assists in Workforce WNBA’s win over Workforce USA within the All-Megastar Sport previous this summer time ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Due to Clark, and alternative younger stars Aliyah Boston and NaLyssa Smith, the Fever have prepared a number of WNBA viewership information and feature 38 in their 40 ordinary season video games on nationwide tv. They top the league in attendance in each house and away video games, too, and feature obvious a 265% build up in attendance from ultimate season, according to ESPN.
The Fever reserve an 11-15 report, which has them in 7th within the league standings and 3rd within the Japanese Convention. They’ll resume their season on Friday in opposition to the Phoenix Mercury.
The ultimate WNBA All-Megastar Sport used to be held in Phoenix previous this summer time. Las Vegas has hosted it thrice within the year six years, and Chicago hosted it in 2022. Indianapolis can even host the boys’s Ultimate 4 in 2026 and the ladies’s Ultimate 4 in 2028.
