Stephanie White could become Caitlin Clark’s next Fever coach after Christie Sides firing

Caitlin Clark’s adjacent WNBA coach mightiness still beryllium nether statement pinch different team.

In nan aftermath of the Fever firing Christie Sides connected Sunday, Connecticut Sun coach Stephanie White has emerged arsenic nan campaigner expected to go Indiana’s adjacent coach, according to nan Chicago Sun-Times.

White remains nether statement pinch nan Sun done nan extremity of adjacent season, nan Sun-Times reported earlier this month, but she’d already emerged arsenic an action for some nan Fever and nan Sky — 2 of nan league’s six existent vacancies — to perchance land, successful summation to nan script wherever White remains pinch a Connecticut squad that could look importantly different adjacent play based connected statement situations.

Back successful nan 2015 and ’16 seasons, White served arsenic nan Fever’s caput coach — starring nan squad wherever she spent astir of her WNBA profession aft playing collegiately astatine Purdue — and collected a 37-31 grounds earlier coaching Vanderbilt done nan extremity of nan 2021 season.

Then, nan Sun hired her, and she led them to nan WNBA Finals successful her first play earlier falling to nan Aces.

Connecticut returned to nan semifinals successful 2023 and mislaid to nan Liberty, and their play fell short of different travel to nan Finals this year, too, erstwhile nan Lynx eliminated them successful Game 5 of their semifinal series.

The Fever joined nan Wings, Sparks, Dream, Sky and Mystics arsenic teams pinch coaching vacancies successful nan weeks pursuing nan play erstwhile they announced Sides’ firing Sunday, a somewhat astonishing move fixed nan Fever’s in-season turnaround that led to nan No. 6 spot successful nan postseason contempt a young roster.

Clark, who won nan league’s Rookie of nan Year grant successful 2024, paired pinch Aliyah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell and others to thief springiness Indiana a unchangeable halfway to build astir for early seasons, and Sides received a ballot successful nan league’s Coach of nan Year canvass — pinch each of nan others going to either nan Lynx’s Cheryl Reeve aliases nan Liberty’s Sandy Brondello, who met successful nan WNBA Finals.

“Leave it amended than you recovered it,” Sides wrote successful an X station Sunday, pinch a triumph manus emoji added to nan end.

But White, if nan Fever extremity up hiring her, could use from that improved roster.

Clark averaged 19.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 5.7 assists during her rookie campaign, and nan viewership and attendance records from Iowa followed her to Indianapolis erstwhile nan Fever selected her No. 1 wide successful nan 2024 WNBA Draft.