NEW YORK — The WNBA tips off the second half of its season on Tuesday night with 10 of the 13 teams playing.One player who won’t be competing for the immediate future is Caitlin Clark, who is recovering from a right groin injury she suffered last week. Clark missed Indiana’s final game before the All-Star break with an injured right groin and pulled out of Friday night’s 3-point contest as well as Saturday’s All-Star Game.Clark told reporters on Saturday night that she had been getting treatment during the festivities, which also took place in Indianapolis. While she is improving, Indiana coach Stephanie White said, the Fever intend to be cautious with Clark, who missed 10 games during the first half of the season with three different muscle injuries.Players weren’t thrilled having to play so soon after the All-Star break and hope to add more of a break in the next collective bargaining agreement that they are currently negotiating with the league.Atlanta has back-to-back games on Tuesday and Wednesday while New York and many other teams have three games this week.“It’s kind of the health and safety of it all,” New York’s Breanna Stewart said. “Players having time to rest and recover, but also if we want the product in the All-Star Game to be better we have to have time between games like there’s no way that you’re going to have a super competitive All-Star Game when we play Tuesday.”New York added some reinforcements for …
