WNBA world reacts after Caitlin Clark decides she is done playing

The 2025 season ended on a positive note for the Indiana Fever, considering everything the team had to go through. Despite a host of season-ending injuries to the Fever’s key players, including phenom Caitlin Clark, the Fever forced the eventual champions, the Las Vegas Aces, to a winner-take-all Game 5 in the semifinals.

Clark in particular, missed most of the regular season due to injury, the most notable of which was a groin injury she suffered just before the All-Star break that kept her off the floor for the remainder of the campaign.

As excited as Fever fans have to be about where things are trending as a franchise, they were still hoping to get their Calrk fix in before next summer, when the WNBA (hopefully) returns.

There was a chance that the fix came via the Unrivaled League, a women’s three-on-three league founded by Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier and New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart, that serves as an alternative to players having to play abroad in the offseason to supplement their WNBA salaries.

Previous reports indicated that Clark had no interest in Unrivaled this season, but with three more players set to be announced on Thursday, there was hope that clark would change her mind.

Unfortunately for fans, Clark has stuck with her original decision. The players named on Thursday were Aari McDonald, Rebecca Allen, and Dominique Malonga as its final three roster spots.

Fans reacted to the selections on social media.

“Couldn’t be more excited for unrivaled,” one fan wrote on Twitter.

“Now we’ve got AB, Lex, Kelsey, and Aari in this godforsaken league I may actually have to watch like for reals Turns out my love for the Fever girls is greater than my disdain for this gimmicky league,” someone else added.

“I know those loser mentality fans so mad that another fever player has joined lol,” another fan added.

It’ll be interesting to see if Clark ever comes around on competing in a three-on-three format.