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Caitlin Clark leads the WNBA in assists on and off the court.
Not only did Clark return to Gainbridge Fieldhouse to support the Indiana Pacers at their first playoff game against the Milwaukee Bucks on April 19, but she also lent a hand to Indiana Fever’s new coach Stephanie White, who was busy calling the game for ESPN.
In a sweet moment shared by the NBA, Clark was seen entertaining two of White’s sons, bringing them into frame to wave at the camera when she was captured on the Jumbotron. While one of White’s boys matched the point guard in Pacers merch, the other repped the Indiana Fever in a Caitlin Clark jersey.
“Caitlin Clark, the babysitter,” one fan commented on B/R W Sports’s Instagram post about the moment, while another joked, “Caitlin is the babysitter that would be trying to shoot a 3 from the next room and knock over a lamp lol.” A third fan got more sentimental on social media platform X, writing, “Caitlin always makes it about someone else…so nice of her to include the kiddos.”
Beyond keeping her coach’s kids occupied, Clark may have also served as a good luck charm for the Pacers, who beat the Bucks by 19 points with a score of 117—98.
This is not the first time Clark has served as the Indiana Fever’s unofficial child wrangler. Former teammate Katie Lou Samuelson—who will play for the Seattle Storm during the 2025 WNBA season—was known to put the 2024 Rookie of the Year on “babysitting duty” in between games.
Obviously, Caitlin Clark is a certified superstar in every sense of the word, drawing record crowds and scoring the most points by a rookie in WNBA history (you can see more of her accomplishments here because the list is too long). And yet, Clark says she still manages to keep life pretty normal outside of work.… When she’s not sitting with Taylor Swift at the NFL playoffs or making appearances on Saturday Night Live.
“I still go to the grocery store, I still buy my own groceries, I still do all of that,” Clark said during an interview at the Masters golf tournament earlier this month. “And I don’t think people always realize that.”
Of course, Clark fans are currently gearing up to cheer for the 23-year-old point guard when the 2025 preseason kicks off in May—and Clark isn’t taking their excitement for granted.
“I always had big dreams and big aspirations,” she continued. “I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I don’t think I could have ever imagined it to be on the level that it is, and to see where women’s sports is going is absolutely incredible. I don’t think a lot of people imagined and believed in it, to get to this point. But I feel like we really are just scratching the surface. The amount of people that have never watched women’s basketball before, and now really enjoy it, is the coolest part. But I don’t think you ever get used to that, by any means.”
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