Washington Mystics star Elena Delle Donne has been upgraded to probable for the team’s game against the Indiana Fever on Friday night. Delle Donne, one of a number of key players for the Mystics who have been on the sidelines for an extended period, has not played since July 9 due to an ankle sprain.
Delle Donne initially injured her ankle on June 30 in the waning seconds of a loss to the Atlanta Dream and sat out of two games. She then made her return against the Connecticut Sun on July 9, but lasted only 13 minutes before she tweaked her ankle again and hobbled straight to the locker room.
The injury kept Delle Donne out of the All-Star Game, and the initial timeline was that she’d miss at least two weeks. That has turned into well over a month, and without her (and a number of others including Ariel Atkins, Shakira Austin and Kristi Toliver) the Mystics have fallen apart. Including that loss to the Sun, the Mystics are 4-9 since Delle Donne went down, and…
