Sun rise

Alyssa Thomas, DeWanna Bonner, Brioanna Jones, Dijonai Carrington, Ty Harris, Veronica Burton, Tiffany Mitchell, Natasha Cloud (we barely knew ye), Rebecca Allen. There were different reasons for each of the players above to decline playing for the 2025 Connecticut Sun, and you can even make the case that overall, the Sun and its front office have been quite generous in finding other places around the league for them to go as the Sun switch to rebuilding mode after six straight appearances in the WNBA semifinals. But, despite her pleas, Marina Mabrey remains. The obvious reason, of course, is that the Sun couldn’t find good value for Mabrey after giving up a first-round pick midseason last summer for her. Part of that may be true, Mabrey ruffled some feathers in 2024 with a young Chicago team that was struggling with injuries and largely planning for the future. In that way, Mabrey might not have been a perfect fit for Connecticut, but she was a darn good one , providing Stephanie Whi...

The 2025 WNBA Draft has come and gone, and there’s this strange feeling called hope for the Connecticut Sun as the season is now imminent. There are holes and question marks, several of them, but I thought the Sun had a pretty good night Monday, and with everything that’s happened in the last few months, that’s a very good thing. You probably know this already if you’re here, but the WNBA Draft is not somewhere where sure things are always found, particularly after the first couple of picks. With their success in recent years, the draft has been irrelevant to the Sun building a team. How many Sun draft picks of the last decade can you name? Except for last year’s first-round pick, Leila Lacan, none of them will be on the Opening Day roster in 2025, which is somewhat a product of their success. (We should shout out the 20th overall pick in 2021, Dijonai Carrington as well as the 21st pick in 2019, Bridget Carleton, who helped eliminate the Sun last fall with Minnesota.) It was interest...

  Hello there, if you’ve gotten here, you must have at least a little interest in the Connecticut Sun. Or you’re a troll of some kind, which, hey do you think the Sun will will be able to survive much longer before getting bought or shipped up to Boston? We’ll have plenty of time for that last question all summer, but for now, there didn’t seem to be a whole lot of coverage on the Sun on the web (or anywhere), so I figured I would give this a shot. You probably already know that the last few years have been nothing but success for the Sun, seven straight winning campaigns (with the exception of a pesky COVID shortened season in 2020) that sawthem right on the cusp of an elusive WNBA title every year. One that never came, unfortunately. To make it eight consecutive winning seasons, Connecticut will have to defy pretty much every prognostication and basic common sense. Six of the Sun’s top seven scorers from a team that went 28-12 last season and nearly beat Minnesota in the WNBA sem...