Elena Delle Donne won her second WNBA MVP in 2019 and led the Mystics to that year’s WNBA championship. Unfortunately, due to injury she has only played in 28 of the 90 Mystics games over the three seasons since.
Delle Donne herniated two discs in her back during the 2019 Finals that required multiple surgeries. She sat out the 2020 season entirely and played only three games in 2021 before playing 25 of 36 games in 2022.
Many of Delle Donne’s 2022 absences were planned as the team tried to ramp her back up to full-time. According to Mystics head coach Eric Thibault, in 2022 they had to go through the schedule before the season began, “picking games where she wasn’t gonna play.”
This season, Delle Donne has publicly stated: “I don’t plan to miss any games.”
Delle Donne says she has had the greatest offseason of her career and is fully healthy in camp, and Coach Thibault has agreed (while knocking on wood) that the she enters this season with no restrictions.
What does that mean for the Mystics and the fantasy hoops outlook of the squad?
Start here. Delle Donne averaged 17.2 PPG, 6.3…
