It looks like another year where we’re going to discount the Connecticut Sun and they’re going to prove us wrong.
This year we will discount them partly because of what they have lost (Jonquel Jones and Curt Miller), which is why we have discounted them in the past (2020 without J. Jones, 2021 without Alyssa Thomas and 2022 without Jasmine Thomas). But the main reason we will discount them this time is because the Las Vegas Aces (with A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, Kelsey Plum, Candace Parker and Jackie Young) and the New York Liberty (with Breanna Stewart, J. Jones, Courtney Vandersloot, Sabrina Ionescu and Betnijah Laney) are just too good.
When I say they will prove us wrong, I don’t necessarily think they are going to beat the Aces and/or Liberty en route to a championship, but they might. If they don’t, I think they are going to give one or both of those teams a battle.
I think Phoenix and Washington will be dangerous, but I think the Sun may have the third-best team in the league. Only four teams had more than two players make Swish Appeal’s Top 30 player list. Vegas and New York both had five, Connecticut had four and Phoenix had three.
The four players that made it for the Sun are A. Thomas, Brionna Jones, Tiffany Hayes and DeWanna Bonner. That’s a pretty…
