The Atlanta Dream concluded their preseason Saturday when they welcomed Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever to College Park, a matchup that the WNBA will see once more in just 10 days.
The Dream (1-1) opens the season in Washington D.C. against the Mystics before traveling to Indiana to face the Fever (3-0) on May 20, a series that’ll continue on to Atlanta on May 22, the Dream’s home opener.
But Dream fans caught a glimpse of the biggest phenomena in sports in an 81-76 loss, a loss in which Clark scored 13 points on 5-for-11 shooting alongside six rebounds and seven assists in 23 minutes.
Clark received a technical foul in the second quarter, her first of the preseason. She believed a foul should have been called on a bounce pass that was intercepted and turned into a layup by Atlanta’s Bri Jones. She threw the ball against the hoop’s stanchion after the basket, prompting the referee to immediately turn and give her a technical foul.
She’d received six during her rookie season in 2024, coming just one away from getting suspended without pay for a game. Preseason technicals don’t count toward the regular season limit of seven.
Prized free agent signing Brittney Griner showed out in her Dream debut (16 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists) against the Mystics on May 7, but played just two minutes Saturday, sinking a 3-pointer in her lone action of the day.
Free agent-signing Brionna Jones scored 11 points while 2022 first overall pick Rhyne Howard struggled, shooting 2 for 11 from beyond the arc.
Te-Hina Paopao, whom the Dream selected with the No. 18 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft out of South Carolina, was 5 for 6 with 14 points in 21 minutes.
