Which WNBA free agents might be on the move for 2026 season?

Las Vegas Aces president Nikki Fargas poked a small amusive astatine however challenging it is for WNBA franchises to hole for the biggest escaped bureau play successful league history.

"You're going to request to person Plan A, Plan B and Plan 9-1-1," Fargas said. "There is thing mean astir this offseason, truthful you can't look astatine it from a mean lens."

Because it was agelong assumed the players would opt retired aboriginal from their 2020 corporate bargaining agreement, astir everyone not connected a rookie declaration volition beryllium a escaped agent. The league indispensable besides clasp an enlargement draught for the 2 caller franchises that volition articulation the WNBA successful 2026.

The league and players indispensable hold connected a caller CBA earlier each of this takes place. But erstwhile we get to escaped agency, however chaotic volition it be?

"You person to beryllium prepared for aggregate scenarios, and antithetic plans for each scenario," said Fargas, whose Aces won their 3rd WNBA rubric successful 4 years past week. "There's truthful galore large players successful this league. But astir importantly, we privation to support our halfway nucleus together."

Four-time MVP A'ja Wilson is astatine the apical of that list. The 29-year-old has played her full eight-year vocation with Las Vegas, which drafted her No. 1 successful 2018. Will she enactment determination oregon tin she beryllium lured to different team?

Satou Sabally, who conscionable spent her archetypal play with the Phoenix Mercury aft 5 with the Dallas Wings, said it volition beryllium absorbing to spot what dictates antithetic players' choices.

"If you privation to triumph a championship, you request bully players astir you," Sabally said. "You besides privation to get your money. So what are the goals of people? What are they consenting to do? Maybe they privation to transportation a squad and enactment themselves connected the radar, which is wholly understandable.

"Or possibly they are much consenting to springiness a small connected the wage broadside and person a ace team."

Much is unknown, but we tin speculate connected which teams mightiness beryllium astir affected by escaped cause question -- oregon deficiency thereof.

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