Indiana Fever stars Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston are clearly very aware of each other on the court docket. Boston was the No. 1 decide by the Fever within the 2023 WNBA Draft and was joined by Clark who was the No. 1 decide in 2024. They now make up two thirds of the Fever’s All-Star trio together with Kelsey Mitchell.
The FIBA World Cup will mark the primary time the 2 have taken the ground as teammates for the senior nationwide workforce. Clark and Boston had been each members of the roster for the qualifying event in March, however Boston was pressured to overlook the motion from San Juan, Puerto Rico as a result of damage. Clark wound up profitable event MVP honors.
Each gamers are at present in Berlin, Germany for the World Cup in what can be their first high-stakes worldwide event (the U.S. had already certified for the World Cup previous to the Puerto Rico qualifiers). Nonetheless, it is not their first time as USA teammates.
In reality, Clark and Boston gained gold collectively earlier than both even performed in school, for Iowa and South Carolina respectively.
That is as a result of each had been a part of youth nationwide groups previously. Clark and Boston had been teammates in 2017 for the FIBA beneath 16 Ladies’s Americas Championship and once more in 2019 for the U19 Ladies’s Basketball World Cup. The U.S. gained each tournaments.
Boston additionally performed on the U17 World Cup squad in 2018, whereas Clark took half within the 2021 U19 World Cup, the place she captured event MVP.
Clark and Boston’s Position for Crew USA in World Cup
It stays to be seen precisely what function every will play for Crew USA within the 2026 World Cup, however count on them to be fixtures on the ground.
Boston’s workload could enhance as a result of A’ja Wilson bowing out previous to the event. In the meantime, USA coach Kara Lawson just lately gave excessive reward to Clark.
“She’s locked in and able to go,” Lawson stated of Clark. She went on to debate the influence that the Fever guard can have in drawing defensive consideration as a result of her gravity as a shooter and her playmaking capability.
We’ll discover out who begins for Crew USA come its opener towards China on Friday, however count on to see Clark and Boston in motion collectively lots—one thing they’re clearly aware of as Fever teammates, but in addition from their days collectively in a USA uniform previously.
