{"id":824732,"date":"2025-01-29T13:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=824732"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:50:29","slug":"connecticut-sun-reportedly-trade-alyssa-thomas-to-the-phoenix-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wslam\/2025-wnba-free-agency\/connecticut-sun-reportedly-trade-alyssa-thomas-to-the-phoenix-mercury\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Sun Reportedly Trade Alyssa Thomas to the Phoenix Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The offseason moves in the WNBA keep piling up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another massive trade reported by The Next&#8217;s Howard Megdal and ESPN&#8217;s Alexa Philippou, the Connecticut Sun are reportedly trading five-time All-Star Alyssa Thomas to the Phoenix Mercury for two players and a first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to a sign-and-trade, the trade won&#8217;t be official until February 1, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/43599444\/sources-mercury-acquire-alyssa-thomas-trade-sun\">according to ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas, a five-time All-Star, will leave the Sun as a franchise legend. She has spent her entire career in Connecticut, leading the team to eight consecutive postseasons and two WNBA Finals appearances in 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas is also the franchise leader in games played, total rebounds, assists and steals and is second all-time in scoring. Over the past three seasons, she has played some of her best basketball, averaging 13.2 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 7.3 assists, in addition to finishing top-5 in the MVP race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mercury are reportedly also getting guard Ty Harris, who had a breakout 2024 season. After starting 38 games, Harris averaged 10.5 points per game, including a 20-point performance in the WNBA Semifinals to stave off elimination in Game 4 against the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In return, the Sun will reportedly receive guard Natasha Cloud and forward Rebecca Allen. Cloud started 38 games last season and led the W in assists in 2022. Allen started 18 games in the regular season but was sidelined indefinitely due to a back injury. Reports say they will also obtain the Mercury&#8217;s No. 12 overall pick in the upcoming draft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A full breakdown of the trade is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Additional reports via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/howardmegdal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@howardmegdal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexaphilippou?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@alexaphilippou<\/a>: <br><br>Natasha Cloud, Rebecca Allen and the No. 12 overall pick are reportedly headed to the Sun. <br><br>Ty Harris reportedly to Phoenix. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TnNLFwGcc1\">https:\/\/t.co\/TnNLFwGcc1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; WSLAM (@wslam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wslam\/status\/1884416384542859267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The offseason moves in the WNBA keep piling up. In another massive trade reported by The Next&#8217;s Howard Megdal and ESPN&#8217;s Alexa Philippou, the Connecticut Sun are reportedly trading five-time All-Star Alyssa Thomas to the Phoenix Mercury for two players and a first-round draft pick. Due to a sign-and-trade, the trade won&#8217;t be official until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":824766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65347],"tags":[9476,3034,1332],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-824732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-wnba-free-agency","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-phoenix-mercury"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824732"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824770,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824732\/revisions\/824770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824732"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=824732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}