Last season, following earning the No. 4 seed, sweeping their first-round playoff series and challenging the eventual champs in the semifinals, it seemed that the Dallas Wings were ascendant.
A talented team that had failed to launch had finally begun to achieve their potential. Led by a pair of surefire stars, they appeared to be soaring toward the contender conversation, as the only team to earn a win over the league’s top-three teams—the Las Vegas Aces, New York Liberty and Connecticut Sun—during the 2023 season.
In 2024, the Wings crashed. They finished 9-31, good for eleventh place in the final standings. They also had losing streaks of 11 games and nine games.
Although an abundance of injuries are partly to blame for Dallas’ devolution, the organization—if it wants to quickly return to a rising contender status—cannot excuse health as the only reason for the team’s failings. The Wings’ 2024 season also revealed infrastructural weaknesses that, if not addressed, could see the 2023 season be the high point of the Arike Ogunbowale-Satou Sabally era of Wings basketball.
Here’s more on what when right, what went wrong and what’s next for the Wings:
What went right in Dallas?
