The Dallas Wings have added one other participant to their roster after a busy summer time of free company — guard McKenzie Forbes, who was chosen twenty eighth total by the Los Angeles Sparks final season.
Forbes is an elite three-point shooter whose collegiate profession included stints at UC Berkeley, Harvard, and USC. In her graduate season at USC, Forbes led the crew to a Pac-12 Event championship, scoring 26 factors within the title sport. That season, she averaged a career-high 14.3 factors, capturing 37.4% from three. She additionally averaged a career-high 3.3 assists and three.1 rebounds per sport.
Although she was drafted, she was in the end waived by the Sparks on the finish of coaching camp and has since performed professionally in Australia and New Zealand. She’s presently taking part in in Athletes Limitless, an expert girls’s basketball going down in Nashville, Tennessee. AU maintains a participant leaderboard and determines a person champion after the five-week season. Forbes presently ranks twenty fifth among the many 40 taking part gamers.
What McKenzie Forbes brings to the Dallas Wings
For Forbes, the signing is a reunion with two key figures in her previous: Curt Miller, who was the pinnacle coach of the Sparks final season and is now the Wings’ common supervisor, and Chris Koclanes. Koclanes is the Wings’ newly-hired head coach and was an assistant for USC final yr when Forbes performed a number of the greatest basketball of her profession. Koclanes, who labored underneath Miller for 8 years within the WNBA, was Forbes’ place coach at USC.
A coaching camp contract just isn’t a assure she could have a spot on the Wings’ roster. However, the 6’0 guard/ahead does get an opportunity to compete for one underneath the management of two people who’re intimately accustomed to her sport. Forbes has the makings of a probably stable function participant down the stretch — and he or she’ll get an opportunity to probably contribute to a revamped roster.
The Wings misplaced a number of key gamers this offseason, headlined by Satou Sabally (commerce) and Natasha Howard (free company). Jacy Sheldon was additionally traded to the Connecticut Solar.
Of their place, the Wings acquired DiJonai Carrington, Ty Harris, and NaLyssa Smith by way of commerce, and signed Myisha Hines-Allen in free company. In addition they have the No. 1 decide within the 2025 WNBA draft, which they’re extensively anticipated to pick out Paige Buckers with. Franchise participant Arike Ogunbowale is again for an additional season. It will likely be an uphill battle for Forbes get a contract, and in the end minutes, in Dallas — however it definitely helps that she has Koclanes and Miller operating the present.
