{"id":829321,"date":"2025-04-30T16:51:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=829321"},"modified":"2025-04-30T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:54:34","slug":"dewanna-bonner-fever-have-so-much-firepower-still-figuring-out-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wslam\/2025-wnba-season\/wnba-training-camp\/dewanna-bonner-fever-have-so-much-firepower-still-figuring-out-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWanna Bonner: Fever have so much &#8216;firepower&#8217;, still figuring out fit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With new additions DeWanna Bonner and Natasha Howard joining Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell, the Indiana Fever are undeniably one of the most exciting teams to look out for ahead of the 2025 WNBA season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the organization finalizes their roster and gets ready for preseason games\u2014on Saturday, May 3 the Fever will face off against the Mystics\u2014Bonner talked to the media about the level of competitiveness in camp so far, and how, even with so much &#8220;firepower,&#8221; they&#8217;re still figuring out team fit and chemistry within rotations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been competitive and great,&#8221; Bonner says of camp so far.  &#8220;[We&#8217;re] just trying to figure out how we all can fit and how we can all make these rotations work. Giving each other a lot of grace because we have people coming in\u2014like myself\u2014that haven&#8217;t played since losing last year in the playoffs, so all just trying to figure it out. I think that&#8217;s the most exciting part because we have so [much] firepower and we can go anyway any given night and just be unpredictable. Just making sure everybody is locked in on the goal and understands what we want to do.&#8221; <\/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\">With so much firepower on the Fever roster, DeWanna Bonner says the players are giving each other grace as they figure out how to mesh \u2014 with winning as the top priority. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Winsidr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Winsidr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e76pbTaIcF\">pic.twitter.com\/e76pbTaIcF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; C. C Dunham, Esq. (\u201cCway\u201d) (@ItsCwaysWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ItsCwaysWorld\/status\/1917589403112988936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonner, who signed with Indiana in free agency, is coming off of an All-Star-level season in Connecticut, where she played alongside her wife and now Phoenix Mercury star Alyssa Thomas for the past five seasons. Prior to that, DB was in Phoenix for the first eight years of her career as their No. 5 pick in the &#8217;09 draft. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier today, DB arrived for her first media day with her new squad: <\/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\">DeWanna Bonner has arrived for her first media day with the squad \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eMqo6LpVly\">pic.twitter.com\/eMqo6LpVly<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/1917604883496083805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonner has been <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/caitlin-clark-indiana-fever-embrace-111605624.html\">praised by the Fever&#8217;s new head coach Stephanie White<\/a>, who coached Bonner in CT, as having a &#8220;mama bear&#8221; type of personality as a veteran leader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fever recently unveiled their new campaign this year, &#8220;Now You Know,&#8221; with a cinematic video featuring the team&#8217;s stars. The slogan is meant to emphasize the Fever&#8217;s &#8220;passion, pride and the pursuit of greatness,&#8221; this upcoming season. <\/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\">We&#39;re not here to chase greatness.<br>We&#39;re here to claim it.<br><br>Now You Know. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EU9yW6XeJW\">pic.twitter.com\/EU9yW6XeJW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Indiana Fever (@IndianaFever) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianaFever\/status\/1917217797500997902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 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>With new additions DeWanna Bonner and Natasha Howard joining Caitlin Clark, Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell, the Indiana Fever are undeniably one of the most exciting teams to look out for ahead of the 2025 WNBA season. As the organization finalizes their roster and gets ready for preseason games\u2014on Saturday, May 3 the Fever will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":829324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65399,65394],"tags":[65179,3127,3000,63726],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-829321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indiana-fever","category-wnba-training-camp","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-dewanna-bonner","tag-indiana-fever","tag-wslam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829321","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\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829326,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829321\/revisions\/829326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829321"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=829321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}