Quiet Aliyah Boston happy to stack up numbers for Fever as Caitlin Clark gets headlines originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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Is Aliyah Boston actually the Indiana Fever‘s best player?
While explosive scoring guards Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell continue to generate the most attention, it is Boston who remains the Fever’s fulcrum, the steady heartbeat of a team with WNBA championship ambitions this season.
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After signing the richest contract in WNBA history by total value, Boston is eyeing her fourth All-Star appearance in as many professional seasons. Though she started a little slowly — and missed the first game of her pro career with a lower leg injury — Boston has roared into gear over the Fever’s past two games.
Boston scored 24 points and added eight rebounds in the Fever’s 90-73 win over the Portland Fire without Clark, who missed the game with a back injury. In Friday’s 90-82 win against the Golden State Valkyries, Boston recorded a 20-point, 16-rebound double-double. In the two games, Boston showed off her expanding range as she hit on three 3-pointers.
After back-to-back games scoring fewer than 10 points, Aliyah Boston bounced back in a big way last week, helping guide Indiana to a (2-0) week.
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Boston had scored a combined 13 points in the previous two games against the Los Angeles Sparks and the Washington Mystics, and her bounce back has put her season averages in line with what had become the expectation for her.
Now averaging 16.0 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.4 stocks per game, Boston is thriving while the spotlight shines elsewhere in Indiana. That suits her just fine.