As Caitlin Clark’s rivalry with Angel Reese took an angry new twist on Saturday, Clark’s Indiana Fever teammate Aliyah Boston was stunned to learn she got fined $200 for her own involvement in the clash.
Clark shoved Chicago Sky rival Reese to the ground in the third quarter of their opening game of the 2025 season in a late attempt to try and stop her from shooting. As a furious Reese picked herself off the floor and marched towards Clark, Boston stepped between the two to stop them coming to blows.
But Boston was left bewildered when reporters told her in the post-game press conference with Clark that the referees gave her a technical foul for her involvement, where she appeared to push both Clark and Reese in different directions to keep them apart.
Players get fined $200 by the WNBA for their first three technical fouls of the season but Boston won’t have to pay the money for hers – Clark insisted she’ll cover the cost.
‘I got the tech?’ Boston asked reporters, visibly shocked, before slapping the table. ‘Oh no.’
As Clark continued answering questions, Boston was visibly fuming with the news before Clark turned to her and said: ‘I’ll pay that fine.
Aliyah Boston: “I got the tech?”
Caitlin Clark: “Let’s not make it anything that it’s not.”
Clark explains her flagrant foul on Angel Reese in the third quarter of the Fever’s win in the season opener. pic.twitter.com/qgNbw5EdzP
— WISH-TV News (@WISHNews8) May 17, 2025
Aliyah Boston was lost for words when she was told she got a technical foul
Boston intervened when it looked like Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark could come to blows
Boston asked if she could pay half and Clark said: ‘I got it for you, don’t worry.’
Clark said of her teammate: ‘I appreciate AB having my back I guess. I don’t know what she did, I didn’t see that.’
Boston is on a salary of $83,371 for the 2025 season with Fever. Clark technically earns a bit less on the second year of her rookie contract on $78,066 but has multiple lucrative endorsements that have made her worth millions.
One thing Boston will have to be careful with, however, is how many technicals she accumulates across the season. After the first three, the cost of the fine rises to $400. When a player gets to seven, they get a one-game ban and an $800 fine.
Clark then dismissed claims she was targeting Reese in the game – their rivalry is well documented and stretches back into their college days.
‘Let’s not make it anything that it’s not,’ Clark said. ‘I wasn’t trying to do anything malicious.
‘That’s not the type of player I am. I went for the ball, and that’s clear as day in the replay.
‘You watch it… it shouldn’t have been upgraded (to a flagrant foul). But that’s up the ref’s discretion.’
Clark was issued with a flagrant foul for the Reese incident in their first WNBA game of 2025
Clark said she’ll cover the $200 fine Boston will get for her technical foul from the clash
Clark ended the game with 20 points to her name as Fever recorded an emphatic 93-58 win over their rivals. Reese, meanwhile, scored 12 points.
After the game, Reese issued a blunt eight-word verdict on the bust-up, insisting the referees got it right and urging people to ‘move on.’
When asked for her thoughts on Clark’s foul, she simply said: ‘Basketball play, refs got it right, move on.’
Fever return to action on Tuesday night against Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.
Things don’t get easier for Reese and Sky – they host reigning WNBA champions New York Liberty Thursday night.
The next clash between Clark and Reese is Saturday, June 7 in Chicago.
