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Alexa Philippou
ESPN
- Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Catch your breath yet after a whirlwind WNBA free agency?
The past few weeks of the WNBA offseason have been wilder than most fans expected. Multiple blockbuster trades sent All-Stars to new teams, including one deal that involved the most assets in a single trade in league history. All-time greats signed with new squads. A few organizations operated more quietly than others, and some annual contenders have become shells of their former selves.
And it is all merely setting the table for what many anticipate to be an even wilder 2026, when — with two more expansion teams entering the league — the vast majority of players hit free agency under a new collective bargaining agreement expected to boost salaries.
Most teams still…
