One other season-ending damage has impacted the WNBA. After lacking a number of weeks because of a knee damage, the Dallas Wings introduced Tuesday morning that guard Ty Harris underwent a process and can be out for the remainder of the yr.
The crew didn’t verify what sort of process Harris underwent, solely that it was on that left knee that has saved her out of play. Harris performed in 5 video games in 2025, after being traded to Phoenix from Connecticut after which to Dallas from Phoenix earlier than the season. She was initially drafted by Dallas in 2020 out of South Carolina, taking part in three seasons for the Wings earlier than being moved to Connecticut.
This information comes simply days after Courtney Vandersloot suffered a season-ending ACL damage, and Harris is the fourth WNBA participant to be dominated out for the season because of a knee since coaching camps began. Georgia Amoore and Katie Lous Samuelson suffered ACL accidents throughout camp, adopted by these two more moderen accidents.
Lucas Seehafer of The Subsequent, who did his PHD on the epidemiology of the WNBA, has reported 77 accidents to this point within the 2025 WNBA season alone. His findings additionally report 20 knee accidents whole in 2025, the best fee of damage when categorizing by physique half. Gamers who sit with knee accidents in 2025 miss 15.2 video games per damage on common, in accordance with Seehafer’s findings. The following commonest accidents in 2025 have been common leg accidents (14) and ankle accidents (11).
The Wings have struggled this season, beginning 1-9 of their first 10 video games. Paige Bueckers has missed the previous 4 video games — three because of a concussion and an extra sport because of sickness. Wings coach Chris Koclanes confirmed on Monday that Bueckers can be accessible to play within the crew’s Wednesday sport. They at present sit in thirteenth place (final total) within the standings.
The Harris damage means the Wings are down one skilled level guard, necessary on condition that their starter is often Bueckers, a rookie. Arike Ogunbowale had a tough begin to her season, however is slowly getting her factors per sport common again to a quantity that appears extra like her normal. She is at present scoring 19.1 factors per sport, barely beneath her profession common of 20.4 factors per sport. It is going to be attention-grabbing to see how having Bueckers again within the lineup impacts that.
For now, the query stays if the Wings will blow up their crew throughout the season, or take the loss and head again to the draft subsequent yr. With the mass exodus of free brokers developing on this offseason, there’s an argument for buying and selling a number of the Wings’ older gamers in trade for younger expertise already locked in for subsequent season. There have additionally been questions in regards to the Wings’ teaching employees, with each followers and analysts questioning in the event that they could possibly be fired midseason, and now this newest damage simply provides one other adverse to the Wings’ already unhealthy season.
