Fever coach White eager to work with Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston - ESPN

INDIANAPOLIS — Stephanie White said she is thrilled about every aspect of returning to her home state for her second stint as Indiana Fever head coach. But the chance to work with the past two WNBA Rookie of the Year award winners, Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston, is an especially strong draw.

«You've got the point guard and the center… you have the bookends that you want to build around,» White said Monday at a news conference at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. «These two are the best. There's so many things they do well right now. And you saw the difference between the beginning of the season to the end of the season, and how much better they got with one another.

»When you think about the great point guards and post players that our game — not just our league — has seen, they are going to go down in history as the greatest. And I'm excited about the opportunity to work with them."

White, a star in high school in Indiana and in college at Purdue, played for the Fever for four seasons and was an assistant coach to Lin Dunn when they won the 2012 WNBA title. White was head coach of the Fever from 2015 to 2016. She has since coached in college at Vanderbilt and spent the past two seasons with the WNBA's Connecticut Sun.

White, who was initially announced as the Fever's new coach Friday, led Connecticut to a sweep of Indiana in the first round of the playoffs this year and went 3-1 against the Fever in the regular season.

«We know how much of a legend she is in Indiana,» Clark said Monday. «I think that's really cool. Playing against her, I would say I felt like her teams always had the best scouts against us. I think that just speaks to her knowledge of the game and her way to analyze, and she clearly was on to something.