Caitlin Clark in Maya Moore’s Shadow for One Night Amid Fever Loss

Caitlin Clark (22) of the Indiana Fever signs autographs before the game against the Minnesota Lynx at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Aug. 24, 2024. Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

MINNEAPOLIS–Amid Caitlin Clark’s rising superstardom, she couldn’t eclipse her favorite player, Maya Moore, on Aug. 24.

The Minnesota Lynx honored Moore, a retired four-time champion, with a jersey retirement ceremony, and her former team delivered a 90-80 victory over Clark’s Indiana Fever. Clark, who met Moore once in 2014 as a 12-year-old girl coming to a Lynx game, expressed the meaning of playing on the night Moore’s No. 23 went into the Target Center rafters.