One other recreation, one other milestone reached by first-year WNBA star Caitlin Clark.
Clark surpassed the 500-point mark on Saturday. Having already topped the 200-assist plateau, the unimaginable rookie grew to become the quickest participant to do each, doing so in solely 29 video games.
Unsurprisingly, Clark’s record-making achievement got here in a standout efficiency. She scored 23 factors (8-of-18), with three three-pointers, eight assists and 5 rebounds — although it wasn’t sufficient to get previous the Minnesota Lynx, who defeated the Indiana Fever, 90-80.
For Clark, the trouble marked her eighth recreation this 12 months with no less than 20 factors, eight assists and 5 rebounds. That is essentially the most in WNBA historical past, rookie or in any other case, and three greater than the second-most (Alyssa Thomas), per Stathead.
Saturday additionally noticed Clark’s thirteenth 20-point recreation of the season. Solely two rookies have multiple this season, together with Angel Reese (3) and Rickea Jackson (2), according to StatMamba.
Etching her identify into the document books is turning into very, quite common for Clark. Her most up-to-date brush with historical past previous to this weekend got here on Aug. 18, when the previous Iowa star set the mark for the most assists by a rookie, which now stands at 240 and counting.
Clark might make much more historical past if she stays constant by way of the ultimate 11 video games of the common season. She’s solely 76 assists away from the league’s all-time document (316) and with 517 factors and a 17.8 factors per recreation common on the 12 months, she might develop into simply the twentieth participant in WNBA historical past to surpass 700 factors in a single season.
Clark is the front-runner to earn Rookie of the 12 months honors, however has even slowly crept into the MVP dialog. According to the latest odds from BetMGM, she’s second (+8000) behind two-time winner A’Ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces.