Lexie Hull reveals most rewarding part about playing for Fever during Caitlin Clark era

Lexie Hull led the Indiana Fever to the brink of the WNBA Finals past season. 

She did it without Caitlin Clark connected the level aft the superstar was injured.

Now, with Clark returning successful 2026, Hull believes and expects they tin triumph a title and beforehand the crippled for the adjacent procreation of fans and aspiring players.

Indiana Fever defender Lexie Hull (10), defender Caitlin Clark (22) and defender Sophie Cunningham (8) laughter adjacent the squad seat June 3, 2025, during a crippled against the Washington Mystics astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (IMAGN)

"Seeing girls, seeing boys amusement up each time and being capable to springiness them aspirations and amusement them what they tin bash and amusement them the possibilities," Hull told Fox News Digital of the rewards of playing successful the WNBA.

"Growing up, I didn't needfully ticker the WNBA arsenic much, didn't person dreams of playing successful the league astatine a young age. And present girls person the quality to ticker us, spot us, imagination astir being nonrecreational athletes. And that's what's been the astir rewarding portion astir it.

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"I emotion the game, and I emotion erstwhile [the fans] amusement up. And that's portion of the crushed wherefore I emotion doing what I do, is to spot fans successful the stands, spot small girls and being capable to beryllium a relation exemplary for them connected and disconnected the court. I deliberation that's truly what drives maine and fuels me."

Hull, who was drafted by the Fever successful 2022, played her archetypal 2 WNBA seasons without the monolithic spotlight that Clark brought successful 2024.

They got the Fever to the playoffs unneurotic for the archetypal clip since 2016 that twelvemonth earlier Hull led the squad connected a playoff tally portion Clark and teammate Sophie Cunningham were connected the seat with injuries successful 2026.

In a career-best twelvemonth successful 2025, Hull averaged vocation highs successful points (7.2), rebounds (4.3) and assists (1.8) portion shooting 36.7% from 3-point scope and appearing successful each 44 games.

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Lexie Hull of the Indiana Fever during a crippled against the Washington Mystics astatine CFG Bank successful Baltimore Sept. 7, 2025. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

In the playoffs, she averaged 10.3 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists successful 8 games. It each came to an extremity successful a 107-98 overtime nonaccomplishment to the Las Vegas Aces successful Game 5 of the WNBA semifinals.

But Hull says she believes the 2026 team, successful twelvemonth 3 of the Clark era, volition beryllium a antithetic amusement and 1 that is gunning for the title.

"I deliberation it's due to the fact that we made it wherever we made it past twelvemonth without immoderate of our cardinal pieces, and with a batch of injuries, and a batch of, like, this adversity. … Our seat was longer than each different bench. We had much radical successful the grooming country getting attraction than immoderate different team, and we inactive astir made it to the Finals," Hull said.

"Tasting that and being truthful adjacent and feeling similar we person truthful overmuch much to give, I deliberation that conscionable changes our mindset a small bit. And it's not needfully overconfident, but assured successful the information that we truly bash person a chance. And we should beryllium playing similar each crippled matters, and we're preparing for that past one.

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The Indiana Fevers' Lexie Hull, Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham ticker arsenic the Golden State Valkyries observe their 88-77 triumph successful a WNBA crippled astatine Chase Center successful San Francisco June 19, 2025. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

"I deliberation it's precise achievable with what we're going to beryllium capable to bash with escaped agency."

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