Caitlin Clark is barely into her third WNBA season, and she’s rewriting record books. The Indiana Fever phenom is stacking points, assists, and sellouts at a pace nobody in the league has matched.
Now, another milestone sits just at an arm’s reach, one currently held by four-time WNBA champion and one of the greatest point guards in the league, Sue Bird.
Caitlin Clark Nears Sue Bird’s Record for Fastest to 1,000 Points and 500 Assists
Clark could rewrite WNBA history on May 28 against the Golden State Valkyries, if things go well. As per the Indiana Fever, Clark only needs a handful more assists to inch ahead of Sue Bird and become the fastest to reach 1,000 points and 500 assists.
Bird set the record at 82 games; Clark could get there in only 59.
She currently sits at 497 career assists, needing only 3 more to cross the line. She added 22 points on 7-of-15 shooting across 32 minutes. The 1,000-point bar was cleared long ago, so the assist total is the only thing gating the record now.
There’s also another layer attached to all of this.
The league requires 500 career assists before a player qualifies for the career assists-per-game record, and Clark averages 8.57 a night.
The moment she hits 500, she vaults straight to the top of that leaderboard, well clear of the current leader, Courtney Vandersloot, at 6.62.
Clark has tallied at least 3 assists in all but one game of her career, so the milestone isn’t really in doubt.
Clark is currently leading the league in assists per game (8.6), a rookie record she set in 2024 (8.4). She would have contested for the 2025 crown as well, but her injuries held her to 13 games last season, falling short of qualifying.
Overall, in three seasons, she has averaged 19.0 points, 8.6 assists, and 5.4 rebounds in 58 games.
On Friday, her dominance was evident against Golden State. She returned from a one-game absence, engineering a great third-quarter run, recording 22 points, 9 assists, and 2 rebounds.
That 90-82 win pushed Indiana to a 4-2 record so far, the franchise’s best six-game start since 2012.
She is not just setting records and winning games, but also trading the hardwood floor for the Victory Podium on Sunday as she served as the grand marshal of the 110th Indianapolis 500, delivering the command for drivers to report to their cars.
