5 storylines to watch in WNBA's 25th season: Storm looking to repeat - Sportsnet.ca

With the WNBA’s 25th season tipping off, many stories from the season prior are still looming, as well as new headlines surrounding draft picks and trades making noise before the regular season starts.

Seattle lost Alysha Clark, Natasha Howard and Sami Whiticomb in the off-season, but was also able to add Katie Lou Samuelson from the Dallas Wings.For example, Minnesota has come back strong with Lynx GM and head coach Cheryl Reeve returning as the defending coach of the year, and their acquisition of Canadian star Natalie Achonwa figures to help their frontcourt depth, as well as shooting from mid-range if they want to stretch their perimeter to four.

After rehabbing her ankle for the past year, refraining from going overseas like many of her peers, Ionescu is ready to be the leader that New York desperately needs – the team went 2-20 last year and lost Kia Nurse in a trade that brought Sami Whiticomb and Natasha Howard to the Liberty. As it turns out, going back to her hometown of Chicago was what she saw as the correct fit for her future – joining an already talented squad of Courtney Vandersloot, Allie Quigley, Stef Dolson, Kaleah Copper, Diamond DeShields and Ruthy Hebard among others. Chicago also picked up 19-year-old Shyla Heal out of Australia to add to the team’s depth and future development.

The Dream have done a 180 since this time last year – ousting their previous ownership group, that conflicted with the political views of their players, and bringing in former WNBA champion, and Dream alum, Renee Montgomery as now part-owner of the team. And with former coach Nicki Collen taking over for Kim Mulkey at Baylor, the team also has a new interim head coach in Mike Petersen as well.

West Virginia University’s highest ever draft pick, Gondrezick was chosen because the team had “picked the player that best fit [the needs] for our team,” Catchings said post-draft.

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