WNBA offseason guide: What's next for Mercury, champions Aces

The WNBA champion has been crowned. The Las Vegas Aces swept the Phoenix Mercury to triumph their 3rd rubric successful 4 years.

And present each 13 teams volition crook their absorption to the offseason.

This is expected to beryllium 1 of the astir pivotal offseasons successful WNBA history. The league and the players are negotiating a caller corporate bargaining agreement; caller teams successful Toronto and Portland, Oregon, volition articulation the league and clasp an enlargement draft; and determination volition beryllium an unprecedented fig of escaped agents, fixed that galore players signed one-year deals aft the players' relation opted past October to terminate the existent CBA. The draught lottery besides volition find which squad volition get the No. 1 prime successful the 2026 draft.

In the meantime, we're breaking down imaginable moves for each WNBA franchise, including a look astatine the authorities of each roster, squad needs and priorities for each beforehand office.

(Note: All players listed arsenic "reserved" tin go escaped agents if nary qualifying connection is extended from their existent team.)

Jump to a team:
ATL | CHI | CON | DAL | GSV | IND | LV | LA | MIN | NY | PHX | SEA | WAS

Won WNBA championship

Las Vegas Aces

2025 record: 30-14 (2nd place)
Free agents: Dana Evans (unrestricted), Chelsea Gray (unrestricted), Megan Gustafson (unrestricted), Jewell Loyd (unrestricted), Cheyenne Parker-Tyus (unrestricted),

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