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Caitlin Clark is back, and the WNBA is on notice. After months of grueling rehab, secret pickup games, and what she's called a real mental battle, the Indiana Fever star is healthy, hungry, and ready to remind everyone exactly why she changed the game. The timing could not be better.
Which brings us to the bigger question hanging over the entire league this season — can anybody actually stop Las Vegas? A'ja Wilson is a force of nature, the Aces are built to repeat, and right now the rest of the WNBA is essentially competing for the right to say they came closest. Clark's return makes Indiana the most compelling threat, but Vegas remains the team to beat until someone proves otherwise.
Shifting to the NBA front office, Dallas is getting serious about rebuilding the right way. The Mavericks have hired Mike Schmitz, former assistant GM in Portland, to lead basketball operations under president Masai Ujiri. Schmitz is a respected evaluator with deep scouting roots, and pairing his eye for talent with Ujiri's vision gives Dallas a front office that suddenly looks like one of the sharper operations in the Western Conference.
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