Bonner Back to the Valley?

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What to Know About Women’s Basketball Today

1. DeWanna Bonner Expected to Sign with Phoenix 🐦‍🔥

Looks like the DeWanna Bonner saga may be wrapping up. Multiple outlets report the 6x All-Star is expected to sign with the Phoenix Mercury in the coming days. (ESPN)

WHY IT MATTERS: Bonner’s request to leave the Indiana Fever just a month into the season surprised many, but a return to Phoenix makes sense. She was drafted by the Mercury in 2009, spent 10 seasons with the franchise, won two titles (2009, 2014), and her fiancée Alyssa Thomas is now on the roster.

The tricky part is that Phoenix has just $69,779 in cap space and is at the 12-player roster limit. Signing Bonner requires waiving a player and offering her a pay cut, likely around half of the $200K deal she signed with the Fever.

2. Team USA Headlines AmeriCup All-Star Team 🌟

FIBA named its five 2025 AmeriCup All-Stars, led by MVP Mikayla Blakes. Also making the list: USA’s Hannah Hidalgo, Brazil’s Kamilla Cardoso and Damiris Dantas, and Canada’s Syla Swords. (FIBA)

WHY IT MATTERS: Team USA not only walked away with gold at this summer’s premier international tournament, they also dominated the All-Star list with top young college talent. Blakes is an incoming sophomore for Vanderbilt University and Hidalgo is an incoming junior for Notre Dame. The future of USA Basketball looks very, very bright.

3. Chelsea Gray Moves Up the All-Time Assists List 📈

Hopefully things don’t get awkward in the locker room in Las Vegas. 😉 In Sunday’s win over Connecticut, Chelsea Gray tallied 8 assists and passed her current coach, Becky Hammon, to move into 6th all-time on the WNBA assists leaderboard. (WNBA)

🎥 Watch highlights from Chelsea Gray’s 8-assist night

WHY IT MATTERS: Gray now has 1,709 assists, edging past Hammon’s 1,708—and she did it in 107 fewer games. WNBA legend Sue Bird holds the No. 1 spot, which will be hard to beat due to her long, 19-season career, but Gray continues to solidify her place in history as one of the best ever to play the game.