The Phoenix Mercury’s 2025 WNBA Draft was about as quiet as their free agency period was loud.
After an enormous four-team, 13-player trade brought star forwards Alyssa Thomas and Satou Sabally to Phoenix and sent a considerable number of players and assets elsewhere, the Mercury didn’t have much left to work with in the draft. In fact, they had nothing at all; Phoenix was left with zero picks and made no further moves to acquire any, content to participate in the draft only as a spectator.
That doesn’t mean that the Mercury’s training camp won’t be a competitive one. Phoenix currently has a whopping 14 players signed to training camp contracts, and not many of them seem like locks to make the team’s final roster, creating a blank slate of sorts that, in a way, mirrors the Mercury’s approach as an organization to the 2025 season.
Which players will have an upper hand in Mercury training camp?
The Mercury may have assembled an impressive amount of high-end talent during the offseason, but they’ll essentially be starting over in terms of who will actually be on their roster. The 2025 WNBA season will be the Mercury’s first in well over a decade without either Diana Taurasi, who recently announced her retirement after 20 seasons in the league, or Brittney…
