Aliyah Boston was ruled out of Sunday’s Fever game against the Seattle Storm with a lower right leg injury, ending the 24-year-old center’s streak of 275 straight games across her college and WNBA careers. Indiana announced her absence roughly two hours before tip-off, and Boston missed a game for the first time in eight years.
The injury leaves the Fever without the player who had started every game she played at South Carolina and with Indiana, a run that included 138 games in college and 137 with the Fever. Boston suffered the lower-leg problem in Friday’s loss to the Washington Mystics, leaving in the third quarter after finishing with nine points and four rebounds in 21 minutes.
Her absence matters now because the Fever entered Sunday at 1-2 and had been counting on Boston as the anchor of a post rotation that now leans more heavily on Mo Billings, Myisha Hines-Allen, Damiris Dantas and Makayla Timpson. Seattle arrived with the same 1-2 record, turning a routine early-season matchup into a test of how Indiana holds up without its most established interior presence.
Boston’s latest setback also adds uncertainty because she previously dealt with a lower-leg injury in February while playing in Unrivaled, and it is not yet clear whether Sunday’s issue is related to that problem or something new. The Fever had already been cautious with her this season, holding her out of the first two preseason games and starting the year with a minutes restriction.
That caution stood in contrast to the role Boston has already claimed in Indiana. The 2025 No. 2 draft pick has become a centerpiece for a team that signed her to a four-year, $6.3 million contract extension last month, the richest deal in WNBA history by total value, after three straight WNBA All-Star appearances. For now, the team has to manage a much smaller margin without her in the middle, and Sunday showed how quickly that can change the look of the Fever’s season.
