Leonie Fiebich is back! She’s been gone for 7 weeks, 16 games and for the Fever game, she was supposed to play restricted minutes. Fiebich played 33 minutes, 51 seconds and finished with 20 points, five rebounds and five assists.
In the end, Indiana FG 57.1% and, with that, they usually win. However, Liberty shot FG 57.8 percent. Both teams made 11 threes. The three Fever stars lit it up: Kelsey Mitchell with 25, Aliyah Boston with 22 points and 6 assists, and Caitlin Clark finished with 21 and 7. And they only turned over 8 times (Liberty turned over 14). However the Fever broke at the free-throw line at 11 for 22.
This was a great game, 6 lead changes, never exceeding five points differential. It was fun! Queen Latifah was there!
Everyone contributed: Jonquel with 17 points and seven rebounds by halftime, finishing with 19 points, 10 rebound double-double. Breanna Stewart dominated with 22 points, eight rebounds and seven assists. Han Xu scored 9 points in 11 minutes. Rebecca Allen made 3 threes. Sabrina seemed to be magnetic with the Fever putting all their energy on her to force 5 turnovers. New York was plus-16 in Marine Johannes’ 13 minutes. Astier made 4 late free throws. All 9 Liberty players who entered, scored.
Indiana started coming back. Kelsey Mitchell buried a 3 with 1:44 remaining that made it 100-100. Stewie hit a freethrow, Fiebich drove for two and-1, missed the bonus, grabbed her own rebound. Clark missed. Fiebich rebounded. Astier made two at the line. Clark missed again. Stewart finished the job.
The ShackBurger contains 12 grams of saturated fat and 1,250 mg of sodium. That works out to 60% and 54% of the daily value! Fans can redeem it only after the visiting team misses two consecutive free throws, and only with another purchase. The required add-on (especially if it’s a Loaded Chocolate Cookies & Cream shake) is not going to improve the nutritional math.
This promotion started at 2024 and it seems this promotion has actually made the visiting team better at their Free Throws! In 2024 the free throw miss rate by visiting teams was 33% when this promotion was not live. Now that the promotion is live, 2025 was 24% and 2026 is at 20%. The introduction of this promotion has actually made the visiting team miss less of their free throws! They were missing more free throws when the promotion wasn’t there and the Liberty fans weren’t offered 2 million calories (estimated with a 10% redemption rate of total crowd 17,000 = 1,700 * [500 calories for the burger + 500 calories for the drink + 500 calories for the fries]) as a reward.*
This all goes to say, this promotion should be abandoned for health reasons (unnecessary promotion of 50%+ daily value consumption in one burger), financial (Shake Shack is probably not making the cost of promotion back in direct sales), and for the game (visiting teams to Barclays missed more free throws before this promotion).
I don’t know what the empanadas nutritional numbers are, but to satiate my desire for Apple Pie I have decided to try out Rice & Beans and Beans empanadas and the winner is seemingly the Beans empanadas.
* These figures are descriptive and intended for illustration and entertainment only. They show an association, not causation; differences across seasons may reflect changes in teams, players, game context, and sample size.
