The 2024 WNBA season ended for the Los Angeles Sparks quickly, as they missed the postseason for a fourth-consecutive season.
While we are still weeks away from free agency ramping up and months from WNBA action, the team has already begun getting to work for the 2025 season. The franchise parted ways with head coach Curt Miller and hired Lynne Roberts to take his place. Despite this low point in team history, they aren’t as far away as they seem from making some noise.
The Sparks have an All-Star in Dearica Hamby, an All-Rookie player in Rickea Jackson and Cameron Brink, who should be returning from her ACL injury ready to go. With this trio and the No. 2 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft, it’s not farfetched to imagine Los Angeles making a run this season and returning to playoff contention.
Before that can happen, though, they need to fill out their roster. Here is a look at who is under contract, who will be a free agent and three questions the Sparks must think about during this free agency period:
Facts and figures*
Players under contract (contract status; 2025 salary)
- Julie Allemand (unprotected; $85,000)
- Cameron Brink (unprotected; $78,066)
- Lexie Brown (protected $96,408)
- Rae Burrell (unprotected; $125,000)
- Zia Cooke (unprotected $76,630)
- Dearica Hamby…
