The Indiana Fever officially has its presumed No. 1 overall pick: Iowa basketball’s Caitlin Clark.
The Hawkeyes’ star senior guard announced on Thursday she will forgo her COVID-19 year of eligibility and declare for the 2024 WNBA Draft, marking Sunday’s Iowa game against Ohio State as her final regular-season game inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
And if there needed to be any reminder that Clark is the presumed top selection in April’s 2024 WNBA Draft, the Fever reminded the women’s basketball world who holds that pick (and to order their tickets for the upcoming season):
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It is the second straight year the Fever has the top overall pick, as the organization took South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston No. 1 overall last April. The idea of Clark and Boston teaming up in the WNBA for the Fever has been a storyline all season long and will continue to be leading up to the draft, given their history and that their styles of play complement each other.
They are the last two national players of the year, with Boston winning in 2021-22 and Clark in 2022-23, and played against each other just once in college. Clark and the Hawkeyes came out on top last year in the Final Four when Iowa took down Boston and South Carolina 77-73.
“Well, the Indiana Fever could have the first pick, so maybe we’ll have the duo,” Clark told Boston in October at the Big Ten Media Day. “I don’t know. Remains to be seen. But me and Aliyah might be teammates at some point, you never know.”
Clark added: “We were teammates before, so maybe we’ll have to reconnect.”
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Indeed they were, as both were teammates on the Team USA basketball circuit on the 2019 USA Women’s U19 team. For what it’s worth, Boston also seems to be aware of her and Clark’s potential reunion:
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When is the 2024 WNBA Draft?
Date: Monday, April 15
Location: New York City
The 2024 WNBA Draft will take place on Monday, April 15 with the Fever having the first overall pick.
ALLSTON, MASS. (WHDH) – Boston police are searching for a gunman who opened fire in Allston Thursday and left one person hurt.
Police responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of Brighton Avenue at approximately 6:46 p.m. When officers arrived, they said they found a male “juvenile” suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim’s age has not been released.
Boston police said the shooter fled the scene and remains at large. No arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Boston police.
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A State Police trooper who was allegedly found “slumped over” in his car at around 5 a.m. in the South End with an open container of High Noon vodka has been “relieved of duty.”
Mass State Police confirmed to the Herald Wednesday night that Trooper Donovan Preston, 31, arrested for alleged drunken driving in Boston this past weekend, “has been relieved of duty.” Preston’s base pay is listed as $80,213.
A Boston Police report states that police arrived at Herald Street on Saturday to see Preston “stopped in lane 2 of the road” with his brake lights on. The suspect was slumped over “with his eyes closed,” the report adds.
“The officer observed that the car was on and in drive. The officer observed an open container of alcohol (High Noon) in the cupholder,” according to the report. The BPD officer then knocked on the window “for approximately 10 seconds before the suspect lifted his head up.”
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Once he picked his head up, police said he appeared “confused and he looked around. The suspect’s vehicle began to roll to which the officer announced, ‘Boston Police. Open the Door.’ ”
Preston stopped on the three-lane, outbound road with his black BMW in the middle of two lanes.
A State Police spokesman said in an email: “Trooper Donovan Preston was relieved of duty and will be subject to a department discipline process.” All other comments were directed toward the police report.
That report, provided to the Herald Wednesday night, added that State Police were notified after Preston’s arrest.
The can of High Noon was logged into the evidence book.
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This latest OUI case comes as State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley is being investigated in an alleged drunken driving fatal crash in Woburn in 2023 that killed a disabled passenger in a van.
In the Quigley case, his blood alcohol level reportedly tested at a .114 at the hospital following the crash (the legal limit is .08). That detail came out in a wrongful death suit filed by the victim Angelo Schettino’s family.
‘Unless he’s s###-faced, I’m not worried’: Mass State Police dash cam catches aftermath of deadly cruiser crash [+video]
The smashed van at the Woburn crash scene. (MSP body camera video screengrab)
