Caitlin Clark's teammate sports two black eyes after collision with WNBA opponent

Indiana Fever prima Lexie Hull and Seattle Storm guardant Gabby Williams collided erstwhile the 2 WNBA teams met Tuesday.

In the days since, Hull has developed a brace of achromatic eyes. 

Fever coach Stephanie White said the marks underscored Hull's grit. 

"Every clip I spot her, I'm like, 'Oh, mediocre Lexie,'" White said Friday. "But, you know, I deliberation it truly epitomizes Lexie's toughness erstwhile you look astatine her, and you spot those 2 achromatic eyes. I mean, she's pugnacious arsenic nails, you know.

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"She plays each retired each possession, each the time, and sometimes the effect is 2 achromatic eyes, and truthful I grin each clip I spot her. But it decidedly is simply a picture-perfect viewpoint of the toughness that she brings."

In the archetypal 4th of Tuesday's game, Hull and Williams some fell to the level successful disposable symptom moments aft knocking heads. Trainers tended to the athletes, who were some capable to yet get up and locomotion without assistance. Williams checked backmost into the crippled aboriginal successful the opening quarter. 

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Hull made her mode backmost to the Fever's seat aft spending immoderate clip successful the locker country area. Hull appeared to person a knot connected her forehead erstwhile she reentered the game.

She finished the crippled with 5 points and 9 rebounds successful 23 minutes. The Fever cruised to a 95-75 win.

While the swelling did yet subside, Hull was near with contusions nether her eyes. Hull said she rapidly got comfy with the information that the information would beryllium thing she would person to woody with for the clip being.

"I enactment a spot (on the knot), slept with it. The adjacent day, woke up, and I was like, ‘OK, the bump is astir gone, but present I person 2 achromatic eyes,’ truthful that was tragic," Hull said. "But, I mean, it's astatine this constituent that, unfortunately, I won't beryllium capable to fell it. People know, truthful conscionable rolling with it."

Hull said trainers did their owed diligence to marque definite she did not prolong a facial fracture oregon immoderate different superior injury. She confirmed she had "been afloat checked out" earlier she checked backmost into Tuesday's game.

"Honestly, erstwhile it happened, I was relieved, due to the fact that I could consciousness myself, similar I was bully to go, similar I felt wholly with it," Hull said. "They did each the tests they needed to bash and enactment crystal connected it close distant effort to support the swelling down, but I felt bully knowing that, like, obviously, it could person been a batch worse. And I'm grateful for the radical online wanting to cheque connected maine and marque definite that I'm OK, but I americium OK, I've been afloat checked out."

After Tuesday's 20-point triumph implicit the Storm, the Fever held connected for a one-point triumph implicit the Los Angeles Sparks Friday. Next up, the Golden State Valkyries are scheduled to big Indiana Sunday.

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