Clark, Mitchell set WNBA record as Fever top Tempo despite Mitchell's early exit

In the ongoing story of what sustained excellence looks like, the Indiana Fever offered Tuesday night a quiet kind of proof — two guards, Kelsey Mitchell and Caitlin Clark, rewriting the WNBA record books together in Toronto while carrying the weight of a season that has become something larger than basketball. Mitchell's early exit due to overheating was a reminder that record-chasing is a human endeavor, bounded by the body's limits even as the spirit presses forward. The Fever's 101-95 victory extended their winning streak to five, and positioned them as a team that has found, in this late