Nurse, who re-signed with the team on a one-year deal last season, did not return to the court following an ACL injury suffered during the 2021 WNBA Semifinals. Mercury guard Kia Nurse will not be returning to the team this season as announced Thursday via her personal Twitter. Sophie Cunningham returns on two-year deal The home opener is set against the Chicago Sky on Sunday, May 21 at 1 p.m. The Mercury currently have 14 players on the roster. The WNBA Draft is scheduled for April 10, ahead of the April 30 start date for training camp. The Mercury will return to host the Los Angeles Sparks at Footprint Center on Friday, May 12 at 7 p.m. The Mercury will begin at the Seattle Storm on Tuesday, May 9 at 7 p.m.
The Phoenix Mercury will play two preseason games ahead of the 2023 season. DeShields was traded this offseason to the Dallas Wings in a four-team trade for forward Michaela Onyenwere, a 2024 third-round pick and a 2025 second-round pick. The Mercury have not selected in the first two rounds since 2020 and traded this year’s first and second-round picks last year to acquire Diamond DeShields from the Chicago Sky. Sissoko was voted All-Pac-12 at USC after averaging a team-high 15.4 points on 45.5 percent shooting and 6.2 rebounds. Harden stepped up for the Hurricanes in the second round of the NCAA Tournament when she hit the game-winning shot to upset Indiana. Harden averaged 11.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per game at Miami last season and made All-ACC second team. The Phoenix Mercury selected forwards Destiny Harden and Kadi Sissoko at 27 th and 29 th overall in the 2023 WNBA Draft on Monday. We’ll find the right time to comment on it when she signs with a team.”īrittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury during the first half in Game Four of the 2021 WNBA semifinals at Footprint Center on Octoin Phoenix, Arizona.Watch Video: WNBA legend Lisa Leslie shares her message to Brittney Griner as she returns to the court “We’ve been planning and we’ve been thinking it through with security experts, BG’s side, our side.
“We are very cognizant of BG’s unique situation,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told the AP earlier this month. The WNBA has said it will address getting Griner special travel accommodations, such as charter flights, after she signed. She skipped a USA Basketball training camp earlier this month, but the organization made it clear she could take all the time she needed to decide if she wanted to play for the U.S. To know BG is to love and appreciate BG, and we can’t wait to show her that in person with thousands and thousands of her biggest supporters exactly three months from today at our Welcome Home Opener.” “And I know none of us will ever forget what it will feel like to welcome her back onto her home floor on May 21. 15 when she announced she intended not only to play basketball in 2023 but that it would be for the Mercury,” Mercury President of Business Operations Vince Kozar said. 8 when we heard BG was coming home or on Dec. “I do not think any of us will forget where we were on Dec. Since returning home from Russia, Griner has been out of the public spotlight, with the exception of appearances at the Super Bowl, the Phoenix Open and an MLK Day event in Phoenix, where she lives.
1 in 2013 by the Mercury, was listed Saturday on Phoenix’s roster on the WNBA website. WATCH: ‘I cried tears of joy’ - Griner’s former coach discusses WNBA star’s newfound freedom She averaged 20.5 points and 9.5 rebounds that season. The 6-foot-9 center last played for the Mercury in 2021 and helped the team reach the WNBA Finals. This is a special signing and today is a special day for all of us.” “We will continue to use the resources of our organization to support her, on and off the floor, and we are thrilled for her that she gets to return to basketball, which she loves so dearly. “We missed BG every day that she was gone and, while basketball was not our primary concern, her presence on the floor, in our locker room, around our organization, and within our community was greatly missed,” Mercury GM Jim Pitman said. Griner had been arrested at an airport just outside of Moscow on drug possession charges a year ago and was brought home in a dramatic high-level prisoner exchange in December. The 32-year-old Griner had said she would return to Phoenix in a social media post in December, after she returned home from her 10-month detainment in Russia.
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Griner, who was a free agent, re-signed with the team Tuesday. Brittney Griner will be back in the WNBA this season, once again playing with the Phoenix Mercury.
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