{"id":11107,"date":"2025-06-17T12:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/caitlin-clark-returns-rating-success-for-espn-and-the-fever-in-the-wnba\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:14:04","slug":"caitlin-clark-returns-rating-success-for-espn-and-the-fever-in-the-wnba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/caitlin-clark-returns-rating-success-for-espn-and-the-fever-in-the-wnba\/","title":{"rendered":"Caitlin Clark Returns: Rating Success for ESPN and the Fever in the WNBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Caitlin Clark Returns with a Spectacle in a Historic WNBA Game<\/h2>\n<p>Caitlin Clark&#8217;s return to the court on Saturday, after a five-game absence due to injury, marked a milestone for the WNBA, becoming the third most-watched game in ESPN history on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The Indiana Fever star, who had been sidelined since May 24 due to a left quadriceps strain, dazzled with an outstanding performance. Clark scored 32 points, her season high, including seven three-pointers. In addition, she grabbed eight rebounds and dished out nine assists, leading her team to a 102-88 victory against the previously undefeated New York Liberty in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The Fever&#8217;s victory against the current WNBA champions drew an average of 2.2 million viewers, with a peak of 2.8 million, according to Nielsen data released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This average represents a 76 percent increase compared to the previous season&#8217;s average viewership for WNBA games on ABC. So far in 2025, viewership has increased by 15 percent across all ESPN platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Clark, 23, averages 21.6 points, 9.2 assists, and 6.4 rebounds, with a 3-point shooting percentage of 36.7% in his five starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>The first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, coming from Iowa, was awarded All-Star, All-WNBA, and Rookie of the Year honors last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caitlin Clark Returns with a Spectacle in a Historic WNBA Game Caitlin Clark&#8217;s return to the court on Saturday, after a five-game absence due to injury, marked a milestone for the WNBA, becoming the third most-watched game in ESPN history on ABC. The Indiana Fever star, who had been sidelined since May 24 due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4196,383,780,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-11107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-audience","9":"tag-caitlin-clark","10":"tag-indiana-fever","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}