The Indiana Fever needed to make some upgrades to the roster in order to vie for a WNBA championship and give Caitlin Clark extra firepower on both sides of the ball.

The team has done just that.

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The Fever re-signed Kelsey Mitchell, acquired Sophie Cunningham from the Phoenix Mercury and added Natasha Howard, DeWanna Bonner and Sydney Colson. In an offseason that saw the Las Vegas Aces trade Kelsey Plum to the Los Angeles Sparks, the Fever may have made some of the shrewdest moves that have gone under the radar.

"I got to work out with DB. As some offseason leagues and overseas stuff kinda wraps up, a lot of them will start getting back and I think it will be a lot of fun to get in the gym and be with my teammates and just starting putting the pieces together and see what works or what doesn't," Clark said at Bonner’s introductory press conference, via CBS Sports. "But I think we're going to have a lot of different options to do a lot of different things. I think that's what's super exciting."

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Clark, Mitchell and Aliyah Boston shined bright in the 2024 season. Clark won the Rookie of the Year award and received some MVP votes. Mitchell was an All-Star for the second straight season. Boston was also an All-Star for the second time and built momentum after her rookie year.

Add players with playoff experience and a coach in Stephanie White, who coached the Connecticut Sun the last two seasons to at least 27 wins, and the Fever have turned into formidable contenders for the WNBA title in 2025.

Bonner is a six-time All-Star and two-time WNBA champion in her own right. She is also not one to be intimidated or messed around with, as she has proven to back up her teammates no matter which team she is playing for. She proved that in the playoffs last season when she and Clark had an in-game spat.

"I think it's just two competitive players that want to win and push their team to get over the finish line. It was the playoffs, so emotions are high, tensions are high," she recalled, via the Indy Star.

Bonner added she and Clark had a good workout to build chemistry with Clark.

"I'm just here to hopefully give my leadership advice," Bonner added. "I don't think I need to push her to be any type of player that she isn't already is, and I'm just happy to be here, and I hope I can give her some knowledge to bring her game to a different level."

Expectations will be high for Clark and the Fever in her second WNBA season.

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Caitlin Clark has become one of the most polarizing figures in all of sports over the last year-plus.

Her popularity reached a peak nearly two years ago when she and Angel Reese duked it out in the national championship – and then, she became a household name.

Clark set numerous records in her senior year, including becoming the NCAA's all-time leading scorer, and parlayed it all into becoming the No. 1 overall pick.

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But then came the culture wars that she found herself in the middle of, with many, including WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson, saying that her race played a role in her popularity.

Clark was the victim of some hard fouls and trash talk throughout her rookie season, but it didn't seem to faze her, as she set plenty of records in Year One.

Clark returned to Iowa on Sunday to see her No. 22 go into the rafters, and she was asked about the criticism she's received recently.

"I think it’s just life. Everybody goes through some of the things that I’ve gone through, a lot of people go through a lot worse. I just try to remind myself every single day how grateful I am to be in the position I am, I want to treat everyone the same way that I would want to be treated. It speaks to the way I was raised and my parents raised me. There’s gonna be good days, there’s gonna be bad days. But it’s just, you go with the flow. I think having a good circle around me, a small circle around me of people that I really trust that I can always count on and lean on is what’s been so important for me over this past year," Clark told reporters on Sunday.

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"But also, I’ve said this before, I feel like one of my greatest skills is I really don’t care. Like, I don’t. I don’t care. I believe in myself, I’m confident in myself, I’m confident in my teammates, I try to instill that in them, I’m confident in the coaching staff of whatever team I was on, whether that was [at Iowa], whether that’s at the Fever now. You just rely on those people. Nobody gets to step inside your locker room… Everybody thinks they know everything and have an answer, but that’s just not reality. That goes for all of professional sports, that goes for all of you as well and people in life."

As Clark's rookie season progressed, there were allegations of racism from both Fever and Iowa fans, a claim made by the aforementioned Reese.

But Clark's appearances in games brought historic viewership to both the college and pro levels. The final three games of her college career were the most-watched women's college basketball games ever. She also had several of her regular-season games draw more viewers than WNBA playoff games, and her WNBA matchups with Reese were some of the most-viewed WNBA games ever.

WNBA teams even had to move to larger arenas simply because of the ticket demand Clark drew; the Fever sold 90 times more tickets this past year than in 2023.

Clark was named the Rookie of the Year for her historic campaign during which she set the record for the most assists in one season in league history. She carried the Fever to a playoff appearance after a slow start, and she quickly became a double-double machine. She even set a single-game record with 19 assists. She also became the first rookie to record a triple-double, registering two of them.

She received the most votes for the All-Star Game and was just the fifth rookie in league history to make the All-WNBA first-team. 

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Caitlin Clark's surprise appearance alongside Taylor Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs' playoff game excited many fans Saturday, but some dreaded the sight. 

The initial sight of Clark and Swift in a suite together after the pop star previously extended an invitation to Clark months ago provided a joyful dose of fan service for some. 

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However, many fans have lamented the constant broadcast shots of Swift during Chiefs games dating back to last season, when the pop star first started showing up to support Travis Kelce. But now with Clark there too, it's double trouble for some. 

In her recent Time magazine Athlete of The Year Interview, Clark said, "As a White person, there is privilege."

The comment provoked backlash against the WNBA phenom. And some fans who tuned in Saturday expressed their displeasure, taking issue with Swift's past endorsement of Kamala Harris and other Democrats. 

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Clark, a lifelong Chiefs fan, said in her interview with Time that Swift and Kelce extended an invitation to Clark when she attended a Swift Eras Tour concert at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in early November. 

Clark was also recently pictured next to Swift on the cover of Time magazine's Inspiring Women special edition issue at the end of October.

Clark has said she is a lifelong Kansas City Chiefs fan. She congratulated Swift after the pop star went public with her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Travis Kelce in September 2023. 

"Taylor Swift welcome to the good side," Clark wrote Sept. 24, 2023, in a post on X with the hashtag "Chiefs Kingdom."

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A Texas man was arrested for allegedly stalking and sending sexually violent messages to Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark.

Michael Thomas Lewis, 55, was charged with stalking threatening sexual battery or death, FOX 59 reported, citing court documents. The charge is considered to be a Level 5 felony.

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Lewis allegedly sent Clark sexually violent messages through his X account. One message said he had been driving around her house multiple times and encouraged her "not to call the law just yet." He also allegedly spoke of going to a Fever game and sitting behind the bench.

Authorities talked to Lewis about the messages on Jan. 8, according to the station. He reportedly told authorities he was going to Indianapolis for vacation and downplayed the number of messages he sent to the WNBA sharpshooter.

Thomas told authorities the messages weren’t threatening and called it a "fantasy-type thing" and a "joke."

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Clark reportedly alerted authorities to the messages and said she had become fearful over the words sent to her.

"t takes a lot of courage for women to come forward in these cases, which is why many don’t," Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said, via FOX 59. "In doing so, the victim is setting an example for all women who deserve to live and work in Indy without the threat of sexual violence."

The arrest of Lewis came nearly a month after an Oregon man pleaded guilty to stalking UConn Huskies women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers.

Robert Cole Parmalee, 40, was arrested in August and was found with an engagement ring and lingerie while walking near Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. He said he intended to marry Bueckers.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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Caitlin Clark’s WNBA rookie season was one for the record books, but she also remembers the moment when she knew she was in pro ball. 

Her "welcome to the WNBA" moment. 

Clark appeared on the latest "New Heights" podcast with Travis and Jason Kelce and was asked about the moment when she was welcomed by fellow WNBA players. 

She knew the answer right away. 

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"Somebody set a screen on me, and I hit my ear just perfect on the girl where my eardrum popped. And it ruptured," Clark said of her Fever game against the New York Liberty June 2. "I knew it right away because I’ve done it before [while tubing in a lake]. It hurts so bad. … That was my welcome to the W moment."

Clark said while her ear didn’t bleed, her hearing wasn’t the same for a few weeks. 

"It takes months to heal," Clark added. "So, after the season, the doctor had to go back and forth and see if it closed. And if it doesn’t close, you have to have a minor procedure. But, lucky enough, it did close. So, I was fine." 

The 104-68 beatdown by the Liberty against the Fever was Clark’s 11th game of her rookie season.

The injury occurred in the fourth quarter of the blowout, and Clark got attention from trainers on the bench before needing to walk back to the locker room at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. 

Clark missed the rest of the game. 

"I don’t wanna explain it. It’d probably be pretty gross. But, no, I feel fine," Clark told reporters at the time of the injury. "I can’t hear great out of one of my ears."

The injury didn't prevent Clark from breaking a number of records, including most assists in a season. 

Clark was named Time's Athlete of the Year and the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year. She was also named a WNBA All-Star for the first time. 

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From being a senior in college and the star of the Iowa women’s basketball team that went to the national championship, to then being drafted right after and jumping into the WNBA season, a lot has happened in the life of Caitlin Clark in the past year.

The Indiana Fever star was left off the Olympic women’s basketball roster this past summer, a decision that sparked a lot of debate, but Clark said the break during the WNBA season due to the 2024 Paris Games was needed.

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"We had the Olympic break, so I got a month off in the middle of the season because we had to pause the WNBA season because, you know, the 12 girls go and play in the Olympics. And everybody else, you’re not doing much, so [I] got like a month off, which I really needed, obviously, because I’ve been playing basketball for just a year straight," Clark said during a recent appearance on "New Heights."

The Fever started out 1-8 but rallied to finish 20-20 to make the playoffs. A big reason for the Fever’s late-season push was the improved play of Clark after the break.

Prior to the Olympic break, she was averaging 17.1 points per game. Following the break, she looked rejuvenated, averaging 23.1 points per game down the stretch. 

Jason Kelce asked how Clark would define her whirlwind of a year in just two words.  

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"I would say, like, I don’t know, life-changing maybe? All in a good way, like, I mean, things just change really fast, as you guys know. That’s just how the world works and, especially with social media, people see a lot of your life, but that’s what makes it fun and why I’ve had so many cool opportunities, too. So, it’s crazy, like looking back at a year ago today or around this time, like, I was just beginning my senior year at college," Clark said.

"And obviously, you know, people knew who we were, and people attended our games, but it’s obviously not on the magnitude that it is now. So, like, life just changes fast, but that’s what makes it fun and cool and, you know, quickly started a new chapter of my life, too. Like moving here to Indianapolis, and feel lucky I’m still in the Midwest. I know you [Jason and Travis Kelce] like the Midwest."

Clark said she is looking forward to being able to have more of a routine in her second season with the Fever after the quick transition from college basketball in the WNBA.

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"Yeah, for sure, I mean it’s just so unlike any other professional sport, really, from the standpoint of, so I played in the national championship, and I basically went to the draft right after, got picked, and then you basically pack up and move. Like, you’re moving in April, you don’t even finish senior year of college," Clark said.

"And I guess for you guys, what was it, you go to the [NFL] combine, how long do you have to prepare for the combine, two months? And then you get drafted, and you still got a little time to get acclimated to the new city, you have camp, whatever. It’s not like that, like camp for us is like a week and a half."

But Clark also said there was a benefit to things moving so quickly.

"I think it was good a little bit, too, like you don’t have time to overthink things, like it’s just like, boom, boom, boom, boom, like you’re just onto the next. But at the same time, you don’t, like, I feel like I never really ended the chapter of college. It was just like you up and left, but maybe that’s good. You don’t have a lot of time to think about it, so I think that’s definitely the weirdest part of, you know, women’s professional basketball and obviously college basketball, too, is just that change," Clark said.

Despite the quick transition into the WNBA, Clark still excelled. 

She won the WNBA Rookie of the Year, was named an All-Star and led the WNBA in assists while also setting a record for most assists in a season with 337.

Clark set the rookie record for most total points scored in a season with 769, and she drained 122 3-pointers in her season, which is the second most in a single season in WNBA history.

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