One other season-ending damage has impacted the WNBA. After lacking a number of weeks attributable to a knee damage, the Dallas Wings introduced Tuesday morning that guard Ty Harris underwent a process and will likely be out for the remainder of the 12 months.
The workforce didn’t verify what sort of process Harris underwent, solely that it was on that left knee that has stored 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 injury, and Harris is the fourth WNBA participant to be dominated out for the season attributable to a knee since training camps started. Georgia Amoore and Katie Lous Samuelson suffered ACL accidents throughout camp, adopted by these two newer accidents.
Lucas Seehafer of The Subsequent, who did his PHD on the epidemiology of the WNBA, has reported 77 injuries to this point within the 2025 WNBA season alone. His findings additionally report 20 knee accidents whole in 2025, the very 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 subsequent commonest accidents in 2025 have been basic 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 attributable to a concussion and a further recreation attributable to sickness. Wings coach Chris Koclanes confirmed on Monday that Bueckers will likely be accessible to play within the workforce’s Wednesday recreation. They at the moment sit in thirteenth place (final general) within the standings.
The Harris damage means the Wings are down one skilled level guard, vital 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 recreation common again to a quantity that appears extra like her standard. She is at the moment scoring 19.1 factors per recreation, barely beneath her profession common of 20.4 factors per recreation. 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 workforce through the season, or take the loss and head again to the draft subsequent 12 months. With the mass exodus of free brokers arising 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 concerning the Wings’ teaching workers, with each followers and analysts questioning in the event that they may very well be fired midseason, and now this newest damage simply provides one other detrimental to the Wings’ already dangerous season.
