Regulation ended the way these Fever-Dream games always seem to end: tied, chaotic, and with Angel Reese in the middle of it. Indiana and Atlanta were knotted at 81 apiece when Reese got a clean look right at the rim to win it outright, and it rimmed out. Naz Hillmon couldn't scoop up the putback attempt either, and the two sides headed to overtime instead of a walk-off.
The broadcast catches the tied scoreboard at the horn and the handshake line that followed as regulation expired at 81-81.
Dave Portnoy was locked in for the whole sequence, firing off a caption that made it look like Reese had already buried the winner before the ball even dropped. It didn't go in — the clip everyone's since sorted through shows the game still tied and headed to an extra period, not a celebration. Classic in-the-moment Twitter whiplash, not a factual claim.
The clip shows the 81-81 scoreboard at the final horn with Caitlin Clark walking off the court as both benches gather at midcourt.
Once overtime actually started, Indiana took over. The Fever had trailed by as many as nine points entering the fourth quarter before locking Atlanta down to force the extra session, then outscored the Dream in the extra frame to close it out 95-91. Caitlin Clark finished with 26 points and 9 assists, Kelsey Mitchell added 20, and Aliyah Boston notched a double-double with 18 points and 14 rebounds, according to Yahoo Sports' recap of the win.
Reese still had a real night statistically — a double-double with 15 points and 14 rebounds — even with the shot that would've won it not falling. Allisha Gray was the one who actually torched Indiana, dropping a game-high 32 for Atlanta in the loss. None of it was enough to keep the Dream from falling to 21-13 while the Fever pushed their winning streak to four games and improved to 23-12.
Big win for the Fever and Mvp Caitlin Clark
This is the version of the Clark-Reese rivalry that keeps drawing eyeballs — not a blowout, but a coin-flip game that came down to a shot a Barstool account was ready to declare a walk-off before it even landed. Reese gets the highlight reel of a near-winner and a strong box score; Clark gets the box score that actually says 'W' next to it. Expect this exact script — Reese balling out, Clark's team finding a way — to keep running every time these two teams meet.