2025 degrees of the deadline of WNBA: Reports cards for each deal
With WNBA’s deadline on Thursday, the competitors began seriously to upgrade their lists within the narrow boundaries that the roof of the solid salary in the league is allowed.
On Sunday, Minnesota Linux took a major step in the league, as it occupied the most improved player, Diego Carrington, from Dallas Wings, against Diamond Miller, and Carly Samuelson was wounded and the second round 2027 was chosen.
Carrington, who did not find the success that she expected after joining Dallas via the sign and trade of a free free agent, should provide a greater batch of Minnesota with the defensive skills she gained by the title of “seat belt” because of her ability to slow the opposition stars.
Meanwhile, the wings look forward to the future because they are built around the number 1, Big Bokerz. Miller, who ranked second in 2022, has the opportunity to play more time than she got the Lynx team, which focuses more on the winning prizes than developing young talents.
We dismantle what the Sunday trade means for both teams.
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Dijonai Carrington wanders through defenders for 2
Dijonai Carrington wanders through defenders for 2
Lynx Get:
G Dijonai Carrington
Wings get:
F diamond miller
G Karlie Samuelson
2027 Choose the second round draft
Minnesota degree: a-
With the exception of the absence extending from the first candidate of the MVP NAPHESA Collier, who left a record on Saturday on Las Vegas due to ankle injury, Minnesota must wander in the upper comprehensive seed with a six -game pillow on the rest of WNBA.
This gives Lynx to take advantage of the focus on how they match the qualifiers, especially in a possible finishing match against the defense champion in New York Liberty. Carrington can play a major role with her defense of the ball if this series comes.
Carrington’s time in Dallas was a useful reminder that defensive plots tend to do more to improve the defense ceiling more than his land. The addition of Carrington was not enough to raise the wings beyond the tenth in WNBA in the defensive classification, which is part of the reason for losing its function after 12 games and witnessed the decrease in the time of play.
In Minnesota, Carrington joins a rocky system like the pioneer system in the league, and Connecticut Sun was when I got a defensive player per year and got the first honorary rank of defense on its way to win that I am more improved for the player last season. In fact, the Lynx 95.1 defensive rating is approximately three points per 100 properties from any other team in WNBA.
Secondly, in the state of Contecticut in the defensive classification last season, Minnesota completed that without benefiting from a real ocean plug. Kayla McBride got the defensive task on Sabrina Ionescu in the finals of last year, a role that played more than the capabilities. But getting rid of this from the McBraide plate can help it in the attack.
Depending on the way the matches are going, I can see Carrington starting in the qualifiers alongside McBridide. In addition to that things went to Lynx this season, the little striker Bridge Carlton was not as effective as she ranked third in the most improved vote behind Carrington last year. Carlton manufactures 36 % of 3S, decreased from 44 % in 2024.
This shooting is still better than Carrington, who shoots 26 % on 3s this season, putting it at the bottom of 10 in Wnba between players with at least 50 attempts. Maintaining the divergence was a key to the crime of Minnesota, which witnessed at least the average of all five beginners for each game. It will be interesting to see how Carrington fits in this regard.
Even if Carrington is completely backup for Lynx, it fills the need. After a newly obtained Samuelson suffered from an infection that required surgery at the end of the season, Sherrill Reef was a short player who trusted him. Minnesota includes two WNBA’s best reserves in Natisha Hadman and Jessica Shipbard, but there is a local gap between 5 feet, 8 Hydman and Shepard 6-FIK-4.
Miller, the second option in 2023, was unable to gain a countryside’s confidence. After Miller underwent knee surgery last May, she fell from rotation and played only 456 minutes over the past two seasons. Miller had some best efforts, but Wednesday’s match against New York was a decisive inspection in terms of playing time. Miller played four minutes as the countryside tightened its role mainly to seven players. With the finals expanding the best seven this season, Lynx may have been a short player.
Besides Miller, the long -term cost here was minimal for Minnesota. The team’s choice is likely to come in the second round of 2027 at the end of the round, and Samuelson will be a free, unrestricted agent in their season. With the exception of an unexpected change of the Group negotiation agreement in WNBA, the Lynx had no advantage in re -signing Samuelson by keeping it in the list of the rest of the season.
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Diamond Miller calls the smooth bird
Diamond Miller calls the smooth bird
Dallas row: b
We will eventually look back at the time of Carrington and with wings as a bad seizure for both sides. Carrington did not get the expanded round that he might have contemplated after playing with a competitive team, and Dallas did not get the improvement he was looking for. As Carrington went to an unrestricted free agency and the wings that went back to the lottery, anything that Dallas can get positive.
After trade, Miller can show more skills that America has made in Maryland. It was effective at the time of intermittent play this season, as it achieved 43 % of 2S and 14 out of 26 compared to 37 % on 2S and 5 out of 26 by 3s in 2024. Miller Minnesota gave an important elevator last Sunday in a loss in Atlanta, and scored eight points in 16 minutes to help Linux to return in the game.
Miller mixture of size (6 feet -3) and ocean skills fit well with the wings team with one of the smallest rear areas in WNBA. 6 feet observers were the longest team of no more than 5 to 11 of the season, as the 5-8 dualism of Eric Ogonpoal, JJ Quinerly appeared at the beginning of beginners and 5-10 rising aziaha james off the seat.
In the future, I am curious about how the Dallas Protected List rises in the upcoming expansion draft. Assuming that the league follows the same rules as in the expansion of Golden State Valkyries last year, the wings have six locations available. The seeds and Maddy Siegrist are the most obvious options for Dallas. This leaves four points between Arike Ogunbowale – an unrestricted free agent that can be chosen as a basic player – Miller, three beginners (Quinerly, Luisa Geiselsoder, Li Yueru) and Key Reserve James.
Indeed, the wings had to waive the veteran center Tira Macan to make room for two new arrivals in their list. Although Dallas may not keep Samuelson on the list due to her injury, there must be a place for her at the time of trade. The average march of the McCan was 12.9 miles per gallon and appears to be part of the wings plans in the long run.