Caitlin Clark opens up on conversations with referees as she looks to avoid suspension for technical fouls

Caitlin Clark says she has adopted a new approach to her conversations with WNBA referees as she attempts to avoid a suspension during the Indiana Fever’s final stretch of the regular season.

Clark has accumulated seven technical fouls, leaving her one away from an automatic one-game suspension.

With four regular-season games remaining, the Fever star said she now tries to remind officials that she wants to work with them when discussing calls.

"I feel like the refs might also know I have seven technical fouls, so I always try to warn them," Clark said.

"Like, ‘I’m working with you.

I’m working with you.

Like, let’s have a conversation.’" CAITLIN CLARK DROPS F-BOMBS AT OFFICIAL WHILE ARGUING FEVER WEREN'T GETTING THE SAME WHISTLE AS VALKYRIES The adjustment, Clark said, has changed her interaction with with referees.

"I think it’s made my conversations with them more positive and more conversational in both ways for them and for me," she said.

"I mean, I think it’s certainly been, like, a conscious effort about it, and I think it’s helped me play better basketball.

It’s just, like, focus on what I need to focus on, and let the last play go.

Like, you can’t go back in time and change things." Under WNBA rules, a player or coach receives an automatic one-game suspension after being assessed an eighth technical foul during the regular season.

An additional suspension is imposed for every two technical fouls after that, while the totals reset for the playoffs.

Clark briefly appeared to reach the eight-technical threshold during an Aug.

8 victory over the Chicago Sky .