Groups didn’t wait lengthy to start out making strikes in free company. Beneath is a breakdown of all of the updates and roster strikes within the WNBA.
Skylar Diggins-Smith will keep within the west signing with the Seattle Storm. Diggins-Smith was one of the vital anticipated free brokers after a season off for maternity depart and ongoing rigidity with the Mercury group. Diggins-Smith is a 4x All-WNBA first-team veteran with a great deal of expertise below her belt. She is prepared for the change and already posted a exercise video on her Instagram sporting a Seattle Storm shirt.
The Los Angeles Sparks have acquired guard Aari McDonald and the Atlanta Dream’s No. 8 total choose within the 2024 draft for guard Jordin Canada and the Sparks’ No. 12 total choose. Aari Mcdonald is coming into her fourth season within the WNBA from Arizona. She is scoring 8.6 factors and meting out 2.5 assists on common over her profession. McDonald is an vitality participant who will look to make an affect in LA, whereas Canada is coming off the very best season of her profession. In her 2023 marketing campaign she had a profession excessive in common minutes, factors, rebounds, assists and free throw share and tied her common steals profession excessive. Canada completed runner up for Most Improved Participant final 12 months and goes to be seeking to take her improved dominance over to the east.
The Minnesota Lynx misplaced three unrestricted free brokers; guards Lindsay Allen, Rachel Banham and Aerial Powers. Allen signed with the Chicago Sky and dished out a profession excessive 4.5 assists final 12 months. Banham returns to the Connecticut Solar after 4 years in Minnesota. She performed her first 4 seasons in Connecticut earlier than the Lynx. Banham is a pointy shooter capturing a lifetime common of 37.1% from three-point land. She needs to be a robust function participant for the Solar. Powers goes to the Atlanta Dream after averaging a profession low in minutes this previous season. Powers said publicly final 12 months that she can be leaving the group and there was quite a lot of hypothesis on-line about what was happening in Minnesota. Powers went from getting 26.9 minutes in 2022 to 9.8 minutes in 2023. Her scoring decreased from 14.4 to five.2, rebounding from 4.7 to 1.8 and assists from 2.9 to 0.8. Powers is unquestionably prepared for a brand new group and a brand new begin in Atlanta.
Tina Charles can also be headed for Atlanta after not being signed by any crew final season. Charles has bounced round a number of groups throughout her run within the WNBA. She performed 4 seasons in Connecticut, then six seasons in New York, one stint in Washington, after which cut up the 2022 season in Phoenix and Seattle. Charles is almost averaging a double-double for her profession with 18.2 factors and 9.3 rebounds. She is a 5x All-WNBA first crew, the 2012 MVP and 3x Olympic Gold Medalist. She was additionally named to W25 in 2021, which named the highest 25 greatest and most influential gamers within the first 25 years of the WNBA. Nonetheless Charles is on the tail finish of her profession and nobody is aware of what she seems to be like after a 12 months off. An fascinating notice that Charles performed with the Dream coach, Tanisha Wright, in New York which may clarify why she was picked up.
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