Free-agent guard Moriah Jefferson is signing with the Phoenix Mercury, according to multiple reports Monday. Here’s what you need to know:
- Jefferson, 28, averaged 10.8 points, 2.5 rebounds and 4.9 assists last season in 30 games with the Minnesota Lynx after being waived by the Dallas Wings after their season opener. She’s a career 44.4 percent shooter from the field and shot 46.8 percent from 3-point range over the last two years.
- The No. 2 pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft, Jefferson spent the first three seasons of her career with the San Antonio Stars/Las Vegas Aces. She spent the next two seasons with Dallas.
- The Mercury went 15-21 last season, their first under coach Vanessa Nygaard, and lost to the Aces in the first round of the playoffs.
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— Moriah Jefferson (@_BonnBonn) February 13, 2023
Why did the Mercury go after Jefferson?
Jefferson had a rough go with knee injuries to start her WNBA career. Multiple surgeries and rehab forced her to miss 78 of 124 games from 2017-2020, severely halting the momentum of her all-rookie campaign in 2016.
But now that she’s healthy, Jefferson has once again shown the promise she held coming out of Connecticut as an efficient scorer from every area of the court and a rugged point-of-attack…
