Former Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon will be spending her second season in the WNBA with a new team after being traded from Dallas Wings to Connecticut Sun on Sunday. The trade was included in a four-team transaction that involved Dallas, Connecticut, Phoenix and Indiana. The deal included 13 players and five draft picks. Sheldon was selected by the Wings with the No. 5 pick in the 2024 WNBA draft. Sheldon earned a starting spot and appeared in all 40 games, averaging 5.4 points and 2.5 assists. The 24-year-old was...

Just hours after losing six-time WNBA All-Star DeWanna Bonner in free agency to the Indiana Fever, the Connecticut Sun made a splash of their own, bringing back eight-time WNBA All-Star Tina Charles on a one-year deal. Charles, 36, spent the first four years of her career with the Sun, who selected her No. 1 overall in the 2010 draft out of UConn. The New York City native was named Rookie of the Year in 2010 and MVP in 2012, when she helped the Sun reach the conference finals. “Today marks...

Eight-time WNBA All-Star and three-time Olympian Tina Charles is signing a one-year deal with the Connecticut Sun as a free agent, sources told ESPN on Sunday. With the move, Charles returns to the franchise that initially drafted her No. 1 overall in 2010, where she spent the first four seasons of her career and won league MVP in 2012. Charles, a nine-time All-WNBA selection and three-time all-defensive team pick, has averaged 17.9 points and 9.3 rebounds across her storied career. She tops the league's all-time rebounding list with 4,014 boards...

Six-time WNBA All-Star DeWanna Bonner is signing a one-year deal with the Indiana Fever, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Bonner has spent the past five seasons with the Sun, helping Connecticut to semifinal appearances each of those years and a WNBA Finals berth in 2022. The 6-foot-4 Bonner averaged 15.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game in 2024 and earned her third All-Star selection in four years. A two-time all-WNBA selection and 15-year veteran, Bonner brings championship pedigree to Indiana from her first 10 seasons in the league...

The last significant domino of the 2025 WNBA offseason has fallen. The Phoenix Mercury are acquiring two-time WNBA All-Star Satou Sabally from the Dallas Wings in a three-team deal that also involves the Indiana Fever, according to ESPN. The agreement will send Sabally, center Kalani Brown and guard Sevgi Uzun to the Mercury. The Wings are receiving guard Tyasha Harris (who Phoenix acquired earlier this week in a trade with the Connecticut Sun) and the rights to forward Mikiah Herbert Harrigan from the Mercury as well as forward NaLyssa Smith...

The news hit Friday that Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores is leading a powerful investment group that is looking to bring a WNBA franchise back to Detroit, and the ensuing reaction showed that there's still some sentiment for women's basketball in the city. Of course, the nostalgia gravitated to the Detroit Shock, the women's basketball franchise that won three WNBA championships during its heyday and won championships in 2003, '06 and '08. The Shock were popular, but in the early years of the league, they didn't flourish and moved to...

Detroit wants to bring the WNBA back to the Motor City, backed by an investor group led by the owner of the NBA's Pistons and NFL's Lions. Pistons owner Tom Gores submitted the bid Thursday, and it was announced Friday. The group includes Sheila Ford Hamp and her husband, the principal owners of the Lions; the CEO and chair of General Motors; Hall of Famer Grant Hill; Lions quarterback Jared Goff and his wife; and others. "For the WNBA this is home, and our bid represents an unprecedented opportunity for...

Angel Reese pulled off the ultimate surprise for her mom's birthday: She paid off her mortgage. The WNBA rookie, 22, revealed the news to her mom, Angel Webb Reese, about an hour into the Jan. 30 episode of her YouTube show, "Unapologetically Angel." "Well it’s your birthday today,” Reese said as someone handed her mom a birthday cake. “You said that if your mortgage was paid off that you would retire ... or you can pick if you want to work still. So your mortgage today has been paid," Reese...

The logo for the Tennessee Summitt WNBA team Bill and Crissy Haslam have submitted a bid for has been released. The colors may look a little familiar. The primary color selections are Predators gold and a light blue similar to Summitt blue, which is worn by the Lady Vols. The color selection was suggested by the Haslams. Using Summitt blue specifically hadn't been in discussions, the shade of blue came from watching the Lady Vols. The team, which will play at Bridgestone Arena if the bid is accepted, is named...

Connecticut Sun player DiJonai Carrington incited fierce backlash by wearing an anti-Trump shirt last weekend, and now she's taking that message even further. During a press conference before an "Unrivaled" league game Thursday, Carrington declared it's time for WNBA players to "take action" in response to President Donald Trump's policies."We see that some of the policies are already going into action, and, of course, that means that as the WNBA and being at the forefront of a lot of these movements, it's time for us to also take action," Carrington...