Caitlin Clark timeline of fights, from scuffle with Angel Reese to altercation involving Sun

Daniel Chavkin

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Caitlin Clark timeline of fights, from scuffle with Angel Reese to altercation involving Sun image

Caitlin Clark's season has been an eventful one. It's included an extended stay on the sideline with an injury, and, in games she's played, Clark has been at the center of several altercations with opponents.

The Fever have been dealing with physical play all season as other teams try and find ways to prevent Clark from heating up. As a result, Indiana and some of its opponents have produced a few scuffles in games, mainly centering around Clark.

Here's a timeline of Clark's altercations so far in the 2025 season.

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Caitlin Clark timeline of fights 2025

Clark assessed flagrant foul on Angel Reese -- May 17

In the season opener against the Sky, Clark and Angel Reese got into a scuffle over a hard foul that Clark committed on Reese. The foul came in the middle of the third quarter, as Clark fouled Reese to prevent her from getting a shot up under the basket, sending the Sky forward to the ground.

Immediately after, Reese chased after Clark, as she was upset by the foul, and the forward needed to be held back initially as Clark walked away.

Clark was given a flagrant 1 on the play, while Reese and Aaliyah Boston received offsetting technical fouls. After the game, Clark said there was no intent on the foul besides preventing Reese from getting a shot off.

"Let's not make it anything that it's not," Clark said. "We watch a lot of basketball, you know, it's a take foul to put them at the free throw line. … I wasn't trying to do anything malicious, that's not the type of player I am, so it wasn't anything like that."

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Clark and Rhyne Howard get into shouting match -- May 22

Less than a week later, Clark and Dream guard Rhyne Howard had to be separated after they exchanged words when Clark bumped Howard after a whistle. Howard didn't appreciate the extra contact and confronted Clark, who walked away speaking to Howard.

"I'm not scared of you," Clark appeared to say to the Dream guard.

After the game, Fever head coach Stephanie White told the press that Indiana has to be able to handle opponents' physicality.

"They're going to push us, they're going to shove us, they're going to hold us," White said. "They're going to do whatever they're allowed to get away with, and we have to figure out how to use that physicality against them."

Fever and Sun have multiple altercations -- June 18

In her second game since returning from injury, Clark was at the center of a third incident this year, this time involving the Connecticut Sun.

First, with the Fever up 10 in the second half, Jacy Sheldon inadvertently hit Clark in the face, resulting in a whistle and a dead ball. After Clark gave Sheldon a shove to retaliate, Sun players Tina Charles and Marina Mabrey quickly approached her, with Mabrey pushing her to the ground.

This came after Clark and Sheldon had a minor argument in the first quarter that led to whistles.

However, the biggest altercation in this game came from Sophie Cunningham, who retaliated on Sheldon late in the fourth quarter with a hard foul of her own. Sheldon immediately went after Cunningham, producing a scrum between the two teams.

Cunningham received a flagrant 2 on the play, while Sheldon and Lindsay Allen both got technicals. All three players were ejected from the game.

After the game, Stephanie White once again expressed her frustration with the physicality.

"It's been happening all season long. ... It's not just this game," White said. "When you allow them to play physical, and you allow these things to happen, they're going to compete. And they're going to have their teammates' backs. It's exactly what you expect out of fierce competition. ... [The officials] gotta be better."

Daniel Chavkin

Daniel Chavkin is a Digital Content Producer for The Sporting News. A 2018 graduate from the University of Maryland, he has previously written for Sports Illustrated, NBC Sports and NFLTradeRumors.com.