A carnival atmosphere descended on Climate Pledge Arena Thursday night as the Seattle Storm hosted rookie phenom Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever for the second time this season. Clark’s inaugural WNBA season is being trumpeted as a turning point for professional women’s basketball. ESPN viewership numbers confirm as much, as did Thursday’s sellout crowd, the Storm’s third ever full house after Clark’s Seattle debut this May and Sue Bird’s last regular season home game in 2022.
Winners of four championships—tied for the most in league history—the Storm, one of the WNBA’s premier franchises, are in the midst of a turning-point season themselves. They posted the second-worst winning percentage in
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