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 usually been manufactured yearly, Clark’s card was in a position to command an uncommon charge.
The cardboard bought 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 girls’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 reveals Clark standing on a stage and posing for a photograph as she held her Fever jersey, simply moments after her identify 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 Instantaneous 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 girls’s sports activities historical past. Greater than twenty years in the past, tennis icon Serena Williams‘ NetPro autograph patch card bought for $266,400. The sale occurred in 2022. The cardboard included a chunk of certainly one of 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 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 lately 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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