INDIANAPOLIS >> Caitlin Clark is out but most of the WNBA’s best are in for the league’s All-Star Game.

The Indiana Fever’s injured superstar won’t be able to play Saturday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse when the team she drafted, Team Clark, faces Team Collier, picked by opposing captain Napheesa Collier.

The events started Friday night with the 3-point contest, headlined by event record-holder Sabrina Ionescu, and the skills challenge. Clark had also been scheduled to compete in the 3-point contest.

Here are a few things to note heading into the busy weekend.

Injuries bog down Team Clark >> Clark, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year, will be sitting out after sustaining a groin injury in the Fever’s game against the Connecticut Sun on Tuesday.

As the player who received the most fan votes and the captain of Team Clark, Clark said she is “looking forward to helping (coach Sandy Brondello) coach our team to a win” in Thursday’s announcement of her withdrawal.

“I will give the coaching hat to her as much as she wants, to be quite honest,” Brondello said. “You’ve seen it with the Fever, she’s been very active on the sideline when she wasn’t playing.”

Phoenix’s Satou Sabally, a fellow starter on Team Clark, will also be sidelined. She announced Wednesday that she will be sitting out this weekend with an injured ankle. A’ja Wilson, a third Team Clark starter, said Friday afternoon that it’s still to be determined if she will play in Saturday’s game, after sustaining a wrist injury against the New York Liberty last week.

The absence of two members of Team Clark led the league to appoint two replacements for the All-Star Game, bringing Washington’s Brittney Sykes and Atlanta’s Brionna Jones onto the roster Thursday afternoon. The Fever’s Lexie Hull will be replacing Clark in the 3-point contest.

Rookies on the roster >> It’s a young All-Star Game this year, with rookies Paige Bueckers, Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen making up the largest rookie contingent at the game since 2011. Citron and Iriafen are on Team Clark, and Bueckers is a starter for Team Collier.