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The Minnesota Lynx and the Connecticut Sun have completed a trade during the WNBA’s free agency period, exchanging guards Tiffany Mitchell and Natasha Hiedeman on Wednesday. The Lynx have also re-signed forward Bridget Carleton, securing an important piece for their team’s composition. The Connecticut Sun will get Tiffany Mitchell and the No. 19 pick in […]

When Connecticut Sun star DeWanna Bonner retires from the WNBA, she’s going to be remembered as one of the greatest players in history and a sure-fire Hall of Famer. But before she was drafted into the WNBA, she was a star at Auburn becoming the school’s all-time leading scorer. The 2009 SEC Player of the […]

The WNBA Free Agency period is set to begin this weekend with teams being allowed to negotiate with free agents. While they cannot sign official contracts until Feb. 1, Jan. 21 marks the day they can begin negotiations and deals will likely be announced shortly after. The Connecticut Sun had a decision to make on […]

Tiffany Hayes may be putting the WNBA behind her after announcing her retirement from the league in December, but she is not ready to stop playing professional basketball any time soon. “Honestly, I don’t know,” the former guard for the Atlanta Dream and Connecticut Sun told the Lakeland Ledger’s Roy Fuoco. “I have a lot […]

Tiffany Hayes, a veteran of the WNBA for 11 years and a 2017 All-Star, has declared her retirement from the league. Hayes made the announcement on the “Counted Me Out” podcast on Wednesday, stating, “It’s the end.” “You can still catch me overseas. WNBA – this right here with the Connecticut Sun was my last […]

Could Boston welcome its first WNBA team soon? The Connecticut Sun hosting a home game at the Boston Celtics’ TD Garden fueled that speculation on Tuesday. The Sun will play a home game at TD Garden sometime next summer, per their official X account. Connecticut ramped up the hype with its catchy “The Sun Will […]

The Connecticut Sun saw its season come to an end at the hands of the New York Liberty. With that, the WNBA Finals are set: The Liberty will face the Las Vegas Aces, which is what everybody expected. Alyssa Thomas, who has been the heart and soul of the Sun and arguably should’ve been the […]

Heading into Sunday’s crucial Game 4 of the second round of the WNBA Playoffs, the Connecticut Sun were looking to avoid elimination and force a deciding Game 5 against the New York Liberty. The Sun have been a regular in the WNBA Finals over the last couple of seasons with appearances in 2019 and 2022. […]

The WNBA Playoffs are in full swing, and so far, they have provided a lot of excitement. It is currently the semi-final stage of the postseason, and the four teams remaining are the Connecticut Sun, New York Liberty, Dallas Wings and Las Vegas Aces. After the Sun took game one on Sunday over the two […]

The WNBA Playoffs are in full swing, and there is an exciting slate on Tuesday night with two critical matchups. Head on to our WNBA series to see the odds for the top WNBA playoffs prop picks! First, the New York Liberty host the Connecticut Sun in Game 2 of the series, as they look […]

Connecticut and New York face off in Game 2 of the WNBA Playoffs Semifinals on Tuesday. Head on to our WNBA series with this Sun-Liberty odds, prediction, pick, and how to watch. The Connecticut Sun handed the Liberty their first loss of the postseason on Sunday and the first loss against the Sun in the […]

The New York Liberty looked far from the juggernaut team that dominated the regular season in Game 1 of their best-of-five WNBA semi-finals series against the Connecticut Sun. Connecticut, who went winless against New York during their season series, shocked the Liberty with a 78-63 beatdown of the No. 2 seed team. The Sun set […]

The New York Liberty have made it a point over the past few weeks to explicitly state that their goal is to cement their status as the best team in New York, or, at the very least, take care of business to set up a likely WNBA Finals matchup against the Las Vegas Aces. However, […]

The WNBA Playoffs continued this weekend with the first of the semifinals matchups between the No. 2 seed New York Liberty and the No. 3 seed Connecticut Sun. The Sun struck first with a 78-63 win in Game 1, stealing homecourt advantage away from the Liberty. It’s a significant win considering the fact that the […]

With the Connecticut Sun’s WNBA Playoffs series agains the New York Liberty set to tip-off on Sunday, everyone will be watching to see if they can knock off the team heralded as the biggest threat to the Las Vegas Aces crown. Ahead of their semifinal matchup, we’ll be making our Sun WNBA Playoffs prediction. Throughout […]

Connecticut Sun shooting guard Tiffany Hayes is reflecting on her first postseason appearance with the Sun after spending the first ten years of her career with the Atlanta Dream. Hayes, who has been plagues with injuries the past couple seasons, is excited to return to the playoffs for the first time in five years. “To […]

We’re only at the semi-finals portion of the 2023 WNBA Playoffs, yet it seems like the stage is already set for a colossal Finals showdown between the defending champion Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty. There are a lot of reasons to believe an Aces-Liberty finale is a certainty. They were, in fact, […]

With the New York Liberty’s 2023 WNBA Playoffs series coming up against the Connecticut Sun, the world will be watching to see if the Liberty can live up to their preseason billing as the biggest threat to the Las Vegas Aces’ throne. Ahead of that series, we’ll be making our Liberty predictions. It was a […]

As expected, the four top seeds in the WNBA Playoffs advanced from the first round of action. Only one of the four series in the first round went to game three, but things are bound to get more interesting in the semifinals. The Las Vegas Aces, Dallas Wings, New York Liberty, and Connecticut Sun have […]

The Connecticut Sun advanced to a fifth straight WNBA semifinal on Wednesday night following a 15-point triumph over the Minnesota Lynx. Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner each had double-doubles in the deciding Game 3 matchup in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. They combined for 53 of the Sun’s 90 points. The win sets […]

The Minnesota Lynx had their season come to an end after losing to the Connecticut Sun by the score of 90-75 in Game 3 of the first round of the WNBA Playoffs, and Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve gave a lot of praise to Sun star Alyssa Thomas after the loss. “The common denominator in all […]

Connecituc Sun power forward Alyssa Thomas chose the perfect time to have a career night. Thomas scored a career-high 28 points as the Sun beat the Minnesota Lynx 90-75 in Game 3 of their best-of-three round one playoff series on Wednesday. Thomas scored or assisted on 58 of the Sun’s 90 points in Game 3. […]

Getting buckets in the WNBA playoffs is a hard feat. Not only are the games shorter compared to the NBA but the defenses and tactics are a bit tougher to circumvent. This is why reaching over a thousand points in the postseason is a coveted feat that most players want but rarely get. There is […]

Connecticut and Minnesota face off in Game 3 of the first round of the WNBA playoffs! Head on to our WNBA series with this Sun-Lynx odds, prediction, pick, and how to watch. The Connecticut Sun are looking to avoid an upset as the third seed, heading on the road to Minneapolis for a must-win Game […]

Stephanie White, head coach of the Connecticut Sun, has been named the 2023 WNBA Coach of the Year in her first season with the franchise. White received 36 of 60 possible votes, with Dallas Wings coach Latricia Trammell coming in second with 11 votes and Sandy Brondello of the New York Liberty earning third place with […]

The WNBA Playoffs are officially underway. While the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty have been the two consensus favorites to win the WNBA championship, the Connecticut Sun have quietly established themselves as a contender in their own right. As the third seed in the WNBA standings, the Sun have drawn the No. 6 […]

The Minnesota Lynx will face off against the Connecticut Sun in the first round of the 2023 WNBA playoffs. The Lynx recovered from a 0-6 start to their season and finished with a 19-21 record. They locked their spot in the playoffs when they defeated the Phoenix Mercury on Sept. 3, becoming the second team ever to […]

The 2023 WNBA regular season that saw historic campaigns from the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty has come to a close. With that, an epic month of women’s hoops should be on the docket until the third week of October as the WNBA Playoffs commence on September 13. This season has been […]

WNBA playoff action is right around the corner. Playoff seeds weren’t decided until the final day of the regular season, but now we know what teams will be facing each other in the first round. With that said, below is everything you need to know in regard to the WNBA playoffs in 2023. WNBA playoffs: […]

How good has Connecticut Sun forward Alyssa Thomas been this season? Let’s put it this way: tonight she set a WNBA record for most double-doubles in a single season, and she might be disappointed with that performance. Facing Breanna Stewart and the Liberty on Thursday, Thomas produced a stat line of 22 points and 12 […]

Coming into this season, not many fans nor media thought much of the Connecticut Sun. The road to the 2023 WNBA championship was seen as a two-team race between the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty. While those two teams have certainly lived up to their preseason hype, the Sun have quietly placed […]

Connecticut Sun star DeWanna Bonner is getting candid about what had her in “freak out” mode this year. Though Bonner is a 2x WNBA Champion and 5x All-Star, she admits that she can get overwhelmed too. For Bonner, the team’s change in general manager, coaching, and several key players led her to freak out amidst […]

Chicago and Connecticut lock horns in the WNBA! Catch the WNBA series with this Sun-Sky game odds, prediction, pick, and how-to-watch guide. Connecticut (21-10) has tallied a 67.7% winning rate so far this season, but they are currently victims of a three-game losing streak. The Sun hopes to retain their third-place position in the WNBA […]

While most people saw the WNBA championship race coming down to the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty, and for good reason, the Connecticut Sun were looking to put a wrench in those plans. Led by the star duo of triple-double machine Alyssa Thomas and veteran leader DeWanna Bonner, the team looked like they […]

The Phoenix Mercury are one of the WNBA’s most frustrating teams so far over the course of the 2023 WNBA season. With an 8-20 record heading into Thursday night’s action, fans had little hope for a turnaround. The Mercury have been busy lately, most recently making a crucial roster move on a former South Carolina […]

Connecticut Sun star Alyssa Thomas set WNBA history again, putting up back-t0-back triple-doubles for the third time in her career and recording the first 20-point, 20-rebound, 10-assist triple-double in WNBA history, leading the Sun to a 79-69 win over the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday. Sun coach Stephanie White explained what was like seeing Alyssa Thomas’ […]

Alyssa Thomas can do it all. The Connecticut Sun forward always shows out when it comes to scoring, playmaking, and crashing the boards. It will not come as a surprise for any WNBA fan that she got dubbed as the league’s triple-double queen. She further cemented her legacy in the sports’ history in her performance […]

Coming into the 2023 WNBA season, much of the championship contender talk centered around the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty. And rightfully so, both ‘super teams’ have some of the best collection of talent in the league. But fans and pundits alike failed to account for the Connecticut Sun. The Sun have one […]

The Connecticut Sun have been one of the surprise teams of the season in that despite losing former head coach Curt Miller and star center Jonquel Jones, they have placed themselves in the conversation for championship contender. Led by the duo of Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner, the Sun are 18-6 and have the third […]