Kelsey Mitchell landing spots: Three title contenders that make sense if WNBA scoring champion leaves Fever

Could Mitchell leave the Fever and backcourt mate Caitlin Clark? It’s on the table this offseason

Could Mitchell leave the Fever and backcourt mate Caitlin Clark? It For the second consecutive season, Kelsey Mitchell and the Indiana Fever were eliminated from the playoffs after losing a winner-take-all first-round game to the Las Vegas Aces. And once again, Mitchell will be a free agent and have to decide whether she wants to return to the only franchise she's ever known. Mitchell, after signing a one-year deal to return to Indiana last offseason, had the best scoring season we've ever seen from a guard. She averaged 24.7 points, the fifth-highest single-season scoring average in WNBA history, scoring a league-record 1,086 total points while leading the league in 3-point percentage (45%).

Her 64.5% true shooting was 8.4% above league average and the third-highest ever by a 20-point scorer. Despite Mitchell posting those historic numbers while forming an elite backcourt with Caitlin Clark, the Fever endured another early playoff exit and now enter a pivotal offseason. Fever general manager Amber Cox said after the season that re-signing Mitchell will be a "major priority." Clark, meanwhile, said at her exit interview on Thursday that "there's nobody I would want to share the backcourt with other than" Mitchell, and that the organization will "recruit her as hard as we can" because "we need her, we love her." The Fever paid Mitchell, 30,