The face of Wnba has retired for two decades, Diana Turasi. The new collective negotiation agreement between the league and the Federation of Players – which can bring higher salaries – is under negotiation. Although the WNBA finals in the past four years have appeared either in Las Vegas or Liberty in New York, this does not guarantee their grip on the league.
At the moment of the transition, it reaches a new season for WNBA, which starts on Friday without a shortage of exciting players. NBC news collapses of watching.
Ketlin Clark, Indiana fever
After getting the rising of the year and led Indiana to the post -season, Clark proved firmly to direct a high -energy crime. Now, Clark will not have a heavy burden on its second season, with additions outside the season for Dewanna Bonner, Sophie Cunningham and Natasha Hownd to a crime that was one of the best in the league during the last half. With the ball constantly in its hands, Clark will have to sort the best ways to involve her teammates while continuing to play her aggressive style.
Arik Oujunbo, Dallas Wings
The goalkeeper ended in the seventh year in the first ten positions of MVP every season of her career, but it was not on average less than 18 points for each game. Sometimes criticism as an ineffective scorer, the 39 % absolute is the highest option to create its own shot.
The challenge this season is to build chemistry with a new colleague in running after a season in which Dallas traded away from Sato Saybali and former Connecticut goalkeeper PAG Bougieraks in general. The background of Ogunbowale and Puckers is a theory. How will you work in practice?
Angel Rais, Chicago Sky
Reese, the leading league institution as a rising (13.1 per game), last season, has established its star appeal in the college could move to Wnba. For the sake of appearing, can Reese diversify the offensive threat it represents? Partially thanks for her offensive prowess for her attack, 55 % of all Reese shots came last season 3 feet from the basket. (It took only four players who played at least 100 minutes higher than their shots that are closed.
Satou Sably and Alyssa Thomas, Phoenix Mercury
For the first time since 2003, Phoenix Mercury will start a season without Torras, who retired, and Bretney Grener, who signed a free agency with Atlanta. How do you replace two franchise formulas? Make a wonderful trade outside and I hope it will bear fruit. Phoenix has directed its future about the new stars Sablyly and Alyssa Thomas, the former stars in Connecticut, who were brought to join Kahleah Copper as trio.
When Salally, who missed 25 injuries, was in good health last season, she joined Caitlin Clark as another league player with an average of 15.0 points, 5.0 rebounds and 5.0 decisive passes. Mercury hoped to remain effective while playing next to Thomas, a six -time member of the league defense team in the league while completing the first five positions of MVP in both the past three years.
Marine Johannes, New York Liberty
The WNBA champion Breanna Stewart and SABRINA IONESCU, concession columns that support the team’s repeated championship aspirations. However, do not ignore the re -signature of Johannes, his career 39 % of 3 points can make it difficult for opponents to defend freedom by spreading the land.
Johannes joined freedom as a rise in 2019 and played with the club in 2022 and 2023, but he did not play in WNBA last season with a focus on preparing for the Olympics, where it helped lead France to the silver medal. Now, it is back and makes freedom better.
Britney Grener, Atlanta Dream
An experiment in Atlanta occurs, where the dream rented a university trainer for a long time to carry out the Uptempo crime that emphasizes the movement to create a space. Interestingly, as part of that crime, said Greenner, which is 6 feet long, who tried only 44 drawings of 3 drawings in her entire career, she was gave “green light” to shoot more triple groups. In the pre-assumption period, 3- For-3 of Deep-Small Size but noticeable. If the 34 -year -old Griner is able to make deep shots, it opens a completely new aspect of her game late in her career, and with the possibility of her team.
Navisa Coller, Minnesota Linux
After losing a slight difference in the WNBA finals last year with Minnesota, Coller went unparalleled, and my role outside the season that she and New York Stewart participated in, and its average reached 25.7 points in the league for each game this winter. This must be created Coller, the runner -up last season and a defensive player per year, to start the season quickly.
