WNBA Tripleheader Thursday: Key Games & Betting Preview

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00:00triple header Thursday in the WNBA and some marquee games that we will see unfold and it's

00:07an important time second half of the WNBA season now fully underway after the all-star break here

00:14are the three games on this Thursday the Connecticut Sun and the LA Sparks two teams not in playoff

00:20contention at this moment the Sparks six-point road favorite the big one that we hope was a

00:26little bit bigger the Indiana Fever at home a two and a half point dog back in Indianapolis against

00:32the Las Vegas Aces Caitlin Clark has already been ruled out now missing yet another game with that

00:38groin injury the Seattle Storm hefty favorite in Chicago DRS as we look at the standings and we

00:45look at everything that is happening right now in the WNBA of course it's a 44 game season it's the

00:53longest we have ever seen most teams have played more than 22 at the all-star break and now beyond

01:00but still only the top eight of a 13 team league make the playoffs it makes your games that you're

01:05playing right now even more important in the fever aren't even 500 against an Aces team starting to

01:12play better looking like the version we had seen in Sin City the last few years led by the reigning

01:17WNBA MVP in Asia Wilson yeah both of those teams have 12 wins so this is a really big game for the

01:24middle of those standings here and making the playoffs which we probably won't see Caitlin

01:27Clark by the way is there a prognosis do they have like a time like say back two to three weeks or we

01:32expect back for this game are we even hearing that yet from her team or no just taking it day by day

01:36day by day really DRS it's really been an update each and every time they go to the practice floor they

01:42asked Steph White the head coach in Indy and she basically says that that they're evaluating it

01:48they're working through it all that stuff but again the idea of soft tissue being first the groin or

01:54first the quad and now the groin not a great sign that Caitlin Clark is fully going to be probably ever

02:00healthy throughout the entirety of this season how many games do they play during the regular season

02:05because the fever 12 and 12 obviously that's 24 games it's a four so a grant we have 20 which is fine

02:11there's 20 more games left to go even if she sits out 10 games and the fever don't even tread water

02:16but they're right around that playoff spot if she's back let's just say with 10 games to go

02:20you estimate they'll go worst case scenario six and four and probably get in the playoffs that's how

02:25you have to play it out and also as much as the WNBA players don't want to see the fever in the

02:30playoffs not because they're a good team because they don't want to see Caitlin Clark have any like you

02:33know national stature there the WNBA should be tilting the scales on their way for saying you know what

02:39they got to get in like like even if we have to limit the COVID like oh well some team's going to

02:44forfeit this week like no no no no just replay this game two weeks down the line so everybody's

02:48healthy and ready to go they need her in the playoffs but you can't afford the slow plate at

02:52this point it's not a disaster if the season ends today they still be in the playoffs they're a decent

02:57team outside of Caitlin Clark but what good are the Indiana fever to themselves if Caitlin Clark comes

03:01back a little bit too early and she only plays at 70 percent of her capacity throughout the playoff run

03:06here rest her up you have plenty of time they'll probably take another loss today and I know it

03:10sucks losing basketball games but look at the bigger picture not the short term