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Fever's Caitlin Clark sets all-time WNBA record that may never be broken originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Caitlin Clark now officially stands alone in WNBA history, and she's so far in a different stratosphere that the Indiana Fever superstar will be tough to catch.
She became the league's all-time assists per game leader on Thursday night. Good luck running her down in a category she dominates like no one else.
Clark already had the best average in league history, but to go on the official leaderboard, she needed to reach 500 career assists.
She entered Thursday's matchup with the Golden State Valkyries at 497 assists. When Clark had three assists in the first half, she could join the charts, and she's the highest average there now.
Clark entered the contest averaging 8.6 assists per game across her three-year career so far.
So why might this record never be broken? It's about the other averages.
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WNBA career leader assists per game
The previous leader in this category before Clark was Courtney Vandersloot.
Vandersloot averaged 6.62 assists per game in her career, about 2.0 less than Clark has averaged so far.
Second place is an active player, Sabrina Ionescu, but at just 5.90 assists per game.
Clark is averaging assists at a rate more than 20% higher than anyone in the history of the WNBA.
To think that someone else can come along and do that in these 10-minute quarters is quite the radical thought.
The only way Clark comes back to earth here is if in the latter stages of her career she has a different role or plays much fewer minutes.
Otherwise, this could be Clark's record forever.
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