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Caitlin Clark Boos Sabrina Ionescu's Four-Point Fail Amid WNBA All-Star Coach Display

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark had a hilarious reaction to her perfectly drawn-up play going awry during the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game.
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New York Liberty's Sabrina Ionescu (20) and Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark (22) talk during warmups Saturday, July 19, 2025, ahead of the WNBA All-Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
New York Liberty's Sabrina Ionescu (20) and Indiana Fever's Caitlin Clark (22) talk during warmups Saturday, July 19, 2025, ahead of the WNBA All-Star Game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. | Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Caitlin Clark's WNBA All-Star roster didn't produce the performance she was surely hoping for, as they lost to Napheesa Collier's squad in the 2025 WNBA All-Star Game in the Indiana Fever's Gainbridge Fieldhouse Arena by 20 points on Saturday night.

It would have been interesting to see whether the game would have been closer if Clark could have competed, given that she was constrained to the sidelines due to a groin injury. Therefore, Clark was relegated to a coaching role.

And Clark seemed to take this role (somewhat) seriously, which was conveyed by one clip of her on the game's ESPN broadcast, where she drew up a play for her team to execute during one timeout. Clark was mic'd up, and after she explained the play to her team (which ended with Liberty star Sabreina Ionescu getting a four-point shot), she went over to ESPN play-by-play man Ryan Ruocco to tell him, "I diagrammed this play!"

The play then happened exactly as Clark drew it up. Alas, Ionescu wasn't able to make the shot, thus rendering it a wasted effort from Clark.

And No. 22 made it very clear she wasn't happy with this outcome, as the broadcast cameras caught her booing Ionescu after missing the shot.

Bleacher Report's X account posted a video of this entire sequence (concluding with the boo) with the caption, "Caitlin drew up a play then booed her team when they missed the shot 🤣".

Clark was clearly joking and was in great spirits on the sidelines throughout the game, despite her surely lamenting not being able to compete.

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Grant Young covers Women’s Basketball, the New York Yankees, and the New York Mets for Sports Illustrated’s ‘On SI’ sites. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing from the University of San Francisco (USF), where he also graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing and played on USF’s Division I baseball team for five years. However, he now prefers Angel Reese to Angels in the Outfield.

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