For the first time since joining the WNBA, All-Star Aliyah Boston will not suit up for a game.
The Indiana Fever ruled Boston out with lower-leg injury for Sunday’s game against the Seattle Storm. She was previously listed as questionable with the injury that sidelined her late in Friday’s loss to the Washington Mystics.
Boston’s game absence will mark her first since she joined the WNBA, snapping a streak of 124 consecutive games played. Boston joined Indiana as the first pick of the 2023 WNBA Draft and started every Fever game for three-plus seasons until Sunday’s.
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Per the Athletic, Boston’s games-played streak stretched back to seven-plus seasons and 275 games when considering her entire four-season college career at South Carolina in which she did not miss a game.
The injury is a blow to a Fever team that’s disappointed with a 1-2 start. The Fever will look to get on track without Boston, who’s made an All-Star team in each of her first three WNBA seasons. Fellow All-Stars Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell will be asked to carry an increased load as long as Boston remains sidelined.
The Fever haven’t revealed the precise nature of Boston’s leg injury. Boston sustained a lower-leg injury while playing in the offseason league, Unrivaled. That injury sidelined Boston for two Fever preseason game. It’s not clear if the injury she sustained Friday is an aggravation of that same injury.
For her WNBA career, Boston has averaged 14.4 points, 8.4 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.1 blocks per game while shooting 54.6% from the field.