Miles had 21 points and six assists in the Lynx's 101-89 win over the Sun
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Top-seeded Lynx break Clark's scoring record, suffer worst loss of the season to Clark three days later.
Hot Mic Moment
This reporter will say what he cannot say on air: the same outlets that spent years treating women's basketball as filler between football windows are suddenly running "statement win" the instant the box score reads like a heavyweight bout — Fox News, this very morning, on Clark alone. Bill the accounting department for the audience that was already there; somebody get the political desk on this call, because this is a revenue story wearing sneakers, not a novelty item.
Gushis side
This reporter watched the Indiana Fever send the ladies of Minnesota home early Tuesday night, laying the league-best Lynx flat in Caitlin Clark's final game on her home floor.
This reporter is reliably informed the humbling comes on the heels of Lynx rookie Olivia Miles lifting Clark's own rookie scoring record back in June, in some midseason tilt against the Sun.
This reporter would also note that only ten days before that, Clark and her sometime rival Angel Reese linked arms overseas at the Summer Olympics to insist, as they always do, that there's no real feud between them.
Put simply: the rookie record now lives in Minneapolis, the manufactured rivalry lives on Instagram, and the standings, this reporter submits, still run straight through the guard who just handed the league's best team its worst outing of the season, three days after they took her crown.
Trudyher side
Nobody's headed home yet, sugar — the Lynx are the one seed with plenty of season left. What Fox News actually clocked was the widest margin of defeat Minnesota's taken all year, delivered in the building Clark is about to leave for good.
Wrong month by a country mile. Miles broke that record September 20th — three days before this game, not three months — with 21 points and six assists in a 101-89 win over the Sun, per CBS Sports. Buy a calendar.
It was the FIBA World Cup, not the Olympics — nobody's chasing rings in Paris this year. Clark and Reese made their peace September 10th, per the Morning Star. Different tournament, different continent, same five rings you're imagining.
Lord, Gus, that's the closest to right you've been all night — but check the calendar before you start diagnosing capitalism from a courtside seat. The line you're circling is real: Fox's own headline reads "statement win" this morning, word for word. You're not wrong. You are, however, overdue for a nap.
“They spent years insisting women's hoops didn't sell — then a rookie snaps Clark's scoring record, Clark's team turns around and hands that same rookie's squad the season's worst loss, and Fox News calls it a "statement win." That's not a rivalry, that's a receipt: the audience was there the whole time, the money just noticed once the box score got loud enough. Nobody built this league for the players out of charity; the players built it in spite of everyone who kept insisting nobody was watching.”
“This is just good coverage of good basketball — Fox ran the "statement win" line because the box score earned it, nothing more to read into that. Did I say nothing more to read into that? Because there's also nothing here about the league finally investing in its stars, this is organic interest, always was — okay, "always" might be doing some work there. Forget I said that.”
The receipts
Caitlin Clark flirted with a triple-double as the Indiana Fever handed the league-best Minnesota Lynx their largest deficit of the season so far.
· Clark and Reese unite during World Cup to silence rivalry talk from the morgue, 10 Sep 2026
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