The Indiana Fever just earned a playoff berth for the first time in eight years, an impressive feat that most players on the team stated as their goal for the 2024 WNBA season.
But not Caitlin Clark.
On Wednesday, the Fever social team unveiled on Instagram what each player wrote as their season goals back in May, and Clark’s answer was hilariously different from the rest.
The rookie wrote “Smile” and added a drawn-out smiley face for good measure.
everyone else wrote “playoffs” as their goal but this psycho wrote “smile :)” 😭😭😭 like this is some real serial killer type shit pic.twitter.com/xxtxm5tTAA
— snoopy (@snoozingsnoopy) September 4, 2024
Caitlin was asked to write down her goals for the 2024 wnba season and she wrote down smile :)…. And now she’s going to the playoffs 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 I am unbelievably proud of her pic.twitter.com/in3f7DPqrb
— kaytee ♡⋆*ೃ:. (@caitlinclarks) September 4, 2024
Caitlin Clark saying her goal was to smile in 2024 got me like 😭😭🥹🥹🫶 pic.twitter.com/mxUo5kzAwK
— LeLakers 2️⃣3️⃣ 👑 (@LeLaker) September 4, 2024
The Fever have won six of their last seven games coming out of the Olympic break to improve to 17-16 despite starting 0-5. The last time Indiana finished with a record above .500 was in 2015, when the team lost to the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA finals.
With Clark heating up at the perfect time, the Fever could potentially clinch their first WNBA title since 2012, though they enter the playoff field as underdogs compared to the two-time defending champion Las Vegas Aces and the currently No. 1-ranked New York Liberty.
Regardless of how deep Indiana goes in the postseason, Fever players could take a page out of Clark’s book and simply “smile,” knowing that they got this far against unlikely odds.
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Caitlin Clark’s One-Word Answer to Season Goals Resurfaces After Fever Clinch Playoffs.
