Caitlin Clark And The Fever Vs. Angel Reese And The Sky Will Tip Off New Wnba Rivals Week In August

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever will face Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky in prime time to tip off the inaugural WNBA Rivals Week in August.

Other games will include two between New York and Minnesota in a WNBA Finals rematch a matchup of projected No. 1 draft pick Paige Bueckers and Dallas against Clark's Fever and Atlanta's Brittney Griner facing her old Phoenix squad.

The week will be sponsored by Ally Financial, a new partner for the league this season.

"You can have a great partnership, but you also have to have great activation," WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a Zoom interview. "There's going to be a full slate of games that week and that's going to be a cool part of the activation."

Rivalry week games will be broadcast on a variety of networks, starting with the prime-time game between the Fever and Sky on CBS on Aug. 9.