It’s safe to say Indiana Fever head coach Christie Sides doesn’t want to talk about what's floating to the front of fans’ minds of late.
“We can talk about championships in three or four years,” Sides told Yahoo Sports last summer while still months away from winning the draft lottery and half a year before drafting generational talent Caitlin Clark. Aliyah Boston, their 2023 No. 1 pick, had not even lifted her Rookie of the Year trophy yet.
At the time, the Fever were deep into Year 2 of general manager Lin Dunn’s three-year plan to rebuild the league’s decades-long basement dweller — a plan that has finally come to fruition this season.