Caitlin Clark preparing for Team USA debut, feels ‘even better’ than start of last season

Almost eight months have passed since Caitlin Clark played in a basketball game. But after shutting down her WNBA sophomore season in mid-July due to nagging injuries, she will return to the floor on Wednesday to make her Team USA senior national team debut in the World Cup qualifiers. Wearing “USA” on her jersey will induce some nerves, Clark said, which is something she’s unaccustomed to feeling on the court. But Clark said she’s worked to rehabilitate so she’s in better form than she was entering last WNBA season. “It’ll probably take me a second to knock a little bit of the rust off,” she said Saturday morning on a Team USA video news conference. “I’m sure after the first minute of...