Earlier this week, the Indiana Fever beat the Connecticut Sun 88-71. While this final score wouldn't generally make major headlines, controversy entered Caitlin Clark's personal space, so this story's news cycle has grown legs.

On Friday, the WNBA released the first update on fan voting, and Clark led the way with a league-high 515,993 votes. She wasn’t the only Fever player on the list of top 40 leaders in the first fan returns, as Aliyah Boston, Kelsey Mitchell, Lexie Hull, Natasha Howard, Sophie Cunningham, Damiris Dantas and DeWanna Bonner were also included.