If a player signs during training camp in 2023, they still get retroactively fined as if they'd been under contract from the beginning. LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Sparks terminated the hardship contracts of Bria Holmes and Karlie Samuelson, the team announced today. Seattle Storm: Stephanie Talbot Sign Training Camp Contract Third-round picks are scheduled to receive a 5% increase in their third season and a 14.29% increase in their fourth season. Phoenix: Charles, Tina Contract Amendment Divorce, Minnesota: Westbrook, Evina Waived Chicago: McGee-Stafford, Imani Waivers Cleared Crucially, the second injured player must miss at least two consecutive games before the team can ask the league for an exemption. Connecticut: Hiedeman, Natisha QO Extended, Indiana: Chagas, Florencia Waivers Cleared, Phoenix: Diggins-Smith, Skylar Set Active Los Angeles: Samuelson, Katie Lou Sign Contract Extension Williams played 14 minutes and had five points, three assists and two rebounds as part of the Storm's nine-player rotation in Sunday's 92-61 victory over New York. The other situations where players may earn less than the league minimum in a season are for non-standard contracts like seven-day contracts, rest-of-season contracts, or replacement contracts. A player who signs a two-year extension to their rookie scale contract where the first year has a salary of $100,000 can earn up to $103,000 in the second year. Phoenix: Peddy, Shey QO Extended Indiana: Perry, Chelsey Personal Decision Full Season An example of an injury suspension was Breanna Stewart, who tore her Achilles tendon while playing overseas in the WNBA offseason. Los Angeles trades the contract of Olivia Nelson-Ododa, the contract of Jasmine Walker, and the exclusive negotiating rights to Kianna Smith to Connecticut in exchange for the contract of Jasmine Thomas and Connecticuts own 2023 1st round draft pick (#10). Washington Burke, Kennedy Set Active Whether a player was drafted or not changes a few aspects of the contract. New York: Nyara Sabally Required Tender Made Players who simply do not show up after signing a contract can be fined by their teams, but as long as an agreement is made, there are no further consequences. Las Vegas: Mulkey, Nancy Waivers Cleared Negotiations may begin on January 15, but negotiated contracts may not be signed until February 1. If a player with an unprotected base salary were cut, they would not earn any money for the remainder of the regular season, but a player with a protected contract would still receive either all or part of their remaining salary. The 5-7 guard was drafted in the second round of the 2021 WNBA Draft by Las Vegas and went on to play 21 games with the Aces in her rookie season. Her contract's 'clock' still started in 2018, so when the fourth year of her rookie scale contract is up, she will only have three years of service. The team initially signed Samuelson on June 5 under a hardship contract. PAUL - The Minnesota Lynx tonight selected Kayla Jones and Hannah Sjerven in the 2022 WNBA Draft as the team's 22nd and 28th overall picks, respectively. Los Angeles: Talbot, Stephanie Non-WNBA Injury Full Season Indiana: Kelly, Micaela Waivers Cleared Finally, veteran extensions can qualify for the supermax if specific criteria are met. "Unfortunately, San Antonio is a smaller airport, so there weren't any flights that were going to get me to the game on time," she said. Team bonuses are awarded based on how far a team progresses in the playoffs. Washington: Jackson, MeMe Waived Connecticut Sun: Natisha Hiedeman Sign Training Camp Contract, Chicago Sky: Diamond DeShields QO Extended Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine Sign 7-Day 1st Contract Non-WNBA Injury - Full Season Indiana: . In order to qualify as an international player, they must have been born and reside outside of the United States. Los Angeles: Samuelson, Karlie Sign Training Camp Contract Waived by Las Vegas. Making a player like Magbegor a reserved player gives the team more control over negotiations and is the natural choice for teams. If we had some practice players in our system, and you could pull from that. That is about a 6% difference. During a normal season, players are paid one-eighth of their base salary twice per month. Las Vegas: Park, Ji-Su QO Not Extended, Washington: Westbrook, Evina- Sign Training Camp Contract, Connecticut: Jones, Brionna QO Extended, Connecticut: Smith, Kianna Traded Exclusive Negotiating Rights1 A player who has been cored could then negotiate a contract with their team that is not protected, but the one-year qualifying offer must contain salary protection if it is accepted. Phoenix: Simms, Jennie Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Players who were not guaranteed money are also still paid for the year if they are cut due to injury. Atlanta: Robinson, Danielle Traded1 Los Angeles: Cooper, Tea Waived A rest-of-season contract is a contract that is entered into after the start of the regular season. Indiana: Ali Patberg Required Tender Made Historically, many WNBA players have arrived late for camp or even missed the opening games of the regular season due to overseas commitments. If the injury happens midseason, however, the team has to choose between cutting the player and continuing to pay them, as outlined above, or keeping the player under contract and paying them. Teams can choose to protect certain years and not others. Another way to qualify for a supermax contract going forward - effective January 1, 2021 - is to be a free agent with five or more years of service and sign with your prior team. Las Vegas: Zahui B, Amanda Traded Exclusive Negotiating Rights2 The extension can be for a salary up to the supermax usually reserved for veterans of five or more seasons beginning in 2021 (six or more seasons in 2020). Both players must be unable to play for at least three weeks from the time the team requests an exception. Minnesota: Milic, Nina Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Teams may not include cash or any other compensation in trades. Minnesota: Jefferson, Moriah Sign ROS Contract Atlanta Dream: Erica Wheeler Traded from Los Angeles Sparks* For the Lakers, it would pave the way for them to sign a player to a 10-day contract. For example, Angel McCoughtry sustained a season-ending injury during the 2021 preseason while her $190,550 salary was protected. Los Angeles: Horvat, Chantel Sign Rookie Scale Contract Connecticut: Holmes, Joyner QO Extended The time off bonus clause in the contract will specify that a player is permitted to play a given number of days professionally outside of the WNBA during the offseason. Connecticut: Anigwe, Kristine Sign Training Camp Contract Chicago: Mabrey, Marina Traded1 Seattle: Manis, Lauren Waivers Cleared August 2, 2022. Taylor, who married Mercury star Diana Taurasi in 2017, played 10 seasons for the Mercury from 2004-16 before retiring. Chicago: Williams, Elizabeth Sign Regular Contract, Washington: Walker-Kimbrough, Shatori Sign Regular Contract New York Liberty: Rebecca Allen Sign Regular Contract A replacement contract is similar to a rest-of-season contract, but teams are only allowed to sign a player to a replacement contract if multiple players are currently unable to play under a hardship or emergency hardship exception. In earlier years, including the first offseason under the new CBA, the requirement was six or more years of service. Indiana is trading the contract of Julie Allemand to Chicago, Seattle Storm: Breanna Stewart Sign Regular Contract Atlanta: Rhyne Howard Required Tender Made Additionally, the exclusive negotiating rights to a player are valuable to a team with little financial commitment, so it is unlikely their team would give in to a holdout like this. Chicago: Allemand, Julie Suspended Partial Season "I got off the phone with him and started packing.". Teams can become eligible to sign players to replacement contracts if they qualify for either a hardship exception or an emergency hardship exception. Restricted qualifying offers may not include any sort of guaranteed salary. In simpler terms, the hardship exemption is a temporary roster spot that allows teams to exceed the 15-man roster limit in times of need (multiple players being out because of injury or illness . Connecticut: Holmes, Joyner Sign 7-Day 1st Contract The ability of core-designated players to turn down any trades of their rights is one reason teams may choose to trade suspended players as mentioned above. New York is trading the contract of Natasha Howard and the exclusive negotiating rights to Crystal Dangerfield to Dallas. From February 1 until the last day of the regular season, players may sign all types of contracts, with the caveat that all standard contracts signed after the midpoint of the regular season become fully guaranteed. Trade bonuses cannot be for more than 10% of the player's remaining base salary on their contract, not just the season the trade takes place. The team doctor deemed she was unfit to play for the whole season and therefore she would not earn her salary, removing it from the team's salary cap. Seattle: Burke, Kennedy Waived Phoenix: Gilles, Mael Waivers Cleared Connecticut: Sims, Odyssey Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Chicago: Wells, Kayla Waived Minnesota Lynx: Bridget Carleton QO Extended Only injuries from playing for a non-WNBA team that will last the remainder of the season can result in the team removing the player's salary. Washington Mystics: Megan Gustafson Sign Training Camp Contract If the offer is not matched, the player is free to sign with the new team. New York: Prince, Epiphanny Sign Training Camp Contract Los Angeles: Toliver, Kristi Set Active This means that for the remaining eight picks of the first round, the playoff team with the highest winning percentage that season gets No. If a team finishes the season below the minimum team salary, it must make payments to all players who are currently on the team. Any player who played more than two-thirds of the season for a playoff team but did not end the season on the roster will earn a $250 bonus, regardless of any prorated salary, or where their prior team finishes. Phoenix Mercury: Tina Charles Sign Regular Contract Chicago: Lexi Held Sign Training Camp Contract New York: Han, Xu QO Extended, Chicago: Gardner, Rebekah QO Extended They require WNBA veterans who want to continue playing in the league to prioritize the WNBA over overseas leagues. Additionally, replacement contracts must be signed for 75% of the applicable minimum base salary, which is then . Draft picks and the exclusive negotiation rights to drafted players can be traded according to the general trade rules, but draft picks cannot be traded beyond next years draft. Minnesota: Hooks, CeCe Waivers Cleared I mean, it's ridiculous.". This stops teams from passing off a player so another team can get the rights to core the player or sign them to a supermax as a free agent. After a high school career that made her the nation's top-ranked point guard, she played college basketball for the UConn Huskies. Minnesota: Hannah Sjerven Sign Rookie Scale Contract Las Vegas: Mya Hollingshed- Required Tender Made Minnesota: McCoughtry, Angel Contract Amendment Divorce Minnesota: Collier, Napheesa Sign Contract Extension Whether the league takes action or not, the only way to do this within the framework of the CBA is if the team and player have absolutely no explicit or implicit agreement ahead of time. This is true even if the player is cut in training camp before their first season which regularly happens to 2nd and 3rd round draft picks. Holmes made the opening day roster before being waived on June 28. Westbrook was . Dallas: Bond, Jazz Waived NEW: The Minnesota Lynx have signed Moriah Jefferson and Evina Westbrook, the team announced, while re-signing Nikolina Mili, Hannah Sjerven and Yvonne Turner to hardship contracts. . Los Angeles Sparks: Yueru Li Traded Exclusive Negotiating Rights* Las Vegas: Rupert, Iliana Sign Rookie Scale Contract, Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine Sign ROS Contract Minnesota: Jones, Kayla Waived If they played for multiple teams over those two seasons, they must have changed teams via assignment (almost always a trade) or have signed with their most recent team as a free agent during the first season. The Atlanta Dream have signed Destiny Slocum to a hardship contract, the organization announced today. Indiana: Jones, Jazmine Waived, Seattle: Harding, Paisley Waived This means if a player is earning $60,000 and loses $5,000 due to a suspension, the player will earn $55,000 but the team's salary will still reflect the original $60,000. Dallas: Thompson, Unique Waived New York: Carrera, Raquel Traded Exclusive Negotiating Rights from Atlanta** Neither the trade deadline nor the date that trades can resume are explicitly defined in the CBA. Phoenix: Vivian Gray Sign Training Camp Contract Las Vegas: Stokes, Kiah Sign Regular Contract So, for 2020, this means the league is guaranteeing that it will pay out at least $1,209,000 multiplied by 12 for a total of $14,508,000. If a player is cut due to injury, they will continue to be paid their base salary until they become fit to play or the season ends. Time off bonuses must cover the first offseason after they are signed or added, but they are not required to be included for all subsequent seasons. Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda Sign 7-Day 2nd Contract Los Angeles: Samuelson, Katie Lou Sign Contract Extension Last year, players with two years experience (or less . So if the injury took place on July 10, 2020, the team must wait until July 10, 2022. Per team policy, no details were released. However, rookie scale extensions can increase or decrease by 3% of the base salary in the first season of the extension. Los Angeles: Clarendon, Layshia Sign Training Camp Contract, Seattle: Guirantes, Arella Sign Training Camp Contract The Sparks first signed Holmes to a training camp contract on Feb. 19, 2021. On January 1, 2022, they can begin to trade 2023 picks. Based on this ranking, teams receive the following number of combinations from the 1,000 assigned combinations (11-12-13-14 is not assigned to any team): For each of the top two picks, four balls will be drawn from a lottery machine. For every player below 10 that is included on the team's total salary, a cap hold equal to the rookie minimum is added. Phoenix: Maya Dodson Required Tender Made After a 1-4 start to the 2022 WNBA season, the New York Liberty have gotten a much needed break. An emergency hardship exception is allowed, at the discretion of the league, when a team has fewer than 10 available players on their roster. Washington: Westbrook, Evina Sign 7-Day 3rd Contract Los Angeles: Gordon, Lexi Waived May 31, 2022 2:52 PM EDT. 10:20 a.m. CT: Williams first hears from her agent about the opportunity with the Storm. Indiana Fever: Chelsey Perry Sign Training Camp Contract, Atlanta Dream: Jaylyn Agnew QO Extended They can extend their contract for up to three years bringing them to a total of the first seven years of their career. Rookie extensions, which must be signed between February 1 and May 15, can be for no more than three seasons from the date the extended contract begins. January 17, 2023 - 13 Games Today. The Sparks re-signed her on June 30 and she played . *Seattle trades the draft rights to Lorela Cubaj to New York for New Yorks own 2023 2nd round pick. Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda 7-Day Contract Release, New York: Cubaj, Lorela Waivers Cleared Connecticut: Hartley, Bria Sign ROS Contract Kaela Davis (born March 15, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). This is because the complete salary cap hit of a player is transferred to their new team when they are traded, even if the other team has paid a large portion of the players salary for that season. The further the team gets, the higher the bonus. Minnesota Lynx: Layshia Clarendon Sign Regular Contract, Indiana Fever: Alaina Coates Sign Training Camp Contract Chicago: Smalls, Kamiah Waivers Cleared Connecticut Sun: Natisha Hiedeman QO Extended Once the core qualifying offer has been extended, the player may not sign a contract directly with any other team. Phoenix: Gray, Reshanda Sign 7-Day 3rd Contract That is typically during the preseason of a player's third year in the league. The exception is cored players. Westbrook, a 6-0 guard, was drafted 21st overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2022 WNBA Draft and . Trade bonuses do count against the cap, but only after they are paid out. This includes injuries that occur while playing for national teams and international professional teams. "So I had to drive an hour to Austin and got on a direct flight.". Minnesota: Sjerven, Hannah Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Seven-day contracts also count on a team's total salary even after they expire. This is only done before the regular season - between the preceding December 1 and the first regular-season game - so it has no bearing on the team minimum or league-wide guarantee. Washington: Jones, Stephanie Sign ROS Contract (Hardship), Minnesota: Turner, Yvonne Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Phoenix: Cannon, Emma Sign Rookie Scale Contract Westbrook, a 6-0 guard, was drafted 21st overall by the Seattle Storm in the 2022 WNBA Draft and registered 18 points, five rebounds and three assists in the two preseason games she appeared. A 10-day hardship deal is worth nearly $60,000. This would be impractical unless the injury was suffered playing basketball outside of the WNBA; otherwise, the suspensions would serve no purpose. The CBA typically limits contracts to an increase equal to 3% of the first year's salary. Indiana Fever: Victoria Vivians Sign Training Camp Contract, Phoenix Mercury: Kia Nurse Sign Regular Contract. Los Angeles: Burrell, Rae Sign Rookie Scale Contract Unlike the first three years of the contract, the fourth year is fully protected beginning with the 2020 Draft Class. To go back to the example of Ezi Magbegor, the Storm exercised the fourth-year option in her rookie contract and therefore is eligible for a restricted qualifying offer or a reserved qualifying offer because she would only have three years of service. Phoenix: Williams, Macee Waived The contracts are at the minimum base salary and prorated where the fraction is seven divided by the total number of days in the regular season. Connecticut: Cox, Lauren Sign Training Camp Contract Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine Waivers Cleared Los Angeles: Rae Burrell Required Tender Made Seattle: Williams, Kiana Hardship Release, Indiana: Smith, Alanna Waivers Cleared This means if a career-ending injury happens on June 10, 2020, then the team can apply for the extension on January 1, 2022. The other reason a player might not sign a contract is if they are inhibited by an existing contract. Vandersloot to New York, the rise of superteams and a Liberty-Aces WNBA Finals? New York: Allen, Rebecca Suspended Partial Season Washington Mystics: Klara Lundquist Sign Training Camp Contract LOS ANGELES (June 30, 2021) - The Los Angeles Sparks re-signed Karlie Samuelson under the hardship exception, the team announced today. Minnesota: Smalls, Kamiah Hardship Release There are a number of ways players can earn the supermax. Connecticut: Dye, Alexus Waivers Cleared Replacement contracts are the only time a team may exceed the league's salary cap during the regular season. This also means if the trade bonus is for $20,000, but the player only has $100,000 left on their contract, the bonus needs to be amended. The Dream signed Slocum to a hardship contract Wednesday, Khristina Williams of Girls Talk Sports TV reports. Chicago: Sparkle Taylor Sign Training Camp Contract "As a team, we've really been trying to navigate the health and safety protocols and trying to be safe and do the right thing," Stewart told reporters. The qualifying offer itself is also much lower, between $8,000 and $25,000 lower for first-round picks drafted in 2020 or later. Rookie base salaries are not guaranteed ("protected," in the language of the CBA), meaning that players are only paid for the portion of the season they are actually on the roster. Uncertain how long she'll be with the Storm -- which depends on how quickly players test out of protocols -- Williams throws as many clothes as possible in the single suitcase she brought along with a backpack. 4:30 p.m. PT: Williams' flight arrives at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport gates about two and a half hours before tip-off. Las Vegas: Aisha Sheppard Required Tender Made Minnesota: Milic, Nikolina Sign ROS Contract (Hardship), Minnesota: Milic, Nikolina Hardship Release "I love Seattle. This strategy has never actually occurred but could be used in conjunction with the ability to trade the exclusive negotiation rights to suspended players in their final season to bring players who could garner a core player designation - and possibly a supermax contract - to teams who have the means to do so. These payments are not really a penalty, because the team doesn't pay any sort of additional fine. Players who were already over the league minimum did not receive any bump in their salary. If a player goes undrafted, they immediately become an unrestricted free agent and are free to sign a rookie-scale contract at the undrafted base salary for either one or two years. Connecticut: Sims, Odyssey 7-Day Contract Release, Minnesota: Milic, Nikolina Hardship Release Atlanta: Durr, Asia (AD) QO Extended Chicago: Williams, Courtney Sign Regular Contract Chicago: Davis, Kaela Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) As mentioned in the restricted free agency section, players finishing the fourth year of their rookie contracts who have three or fewer years of service are eligible for both reserved and restricted qualifying offers. Phoenix: Anigwe, Kristine Waivers Cleared Chicago: Held, Lexi Waived All season-long contracts in the WNBA became guaranteed on Monday, June 28 at 2 p.m. PT. WNBA hardship contracts are the new norm, but they can leave players scrambling. Phoenix: Williams, Kiana Waivers Cleared Prioritization is a new set of rules agreed to in the 2020 CBA that take effect starting with the 2023 WNBA season. Chicago: Gondrezick, Kysre Waivers Cleared "Austin's airport is terrible in the sense that there's no TSA PreCheck (line)," she said. Giselle Jacobs knows hardship. The offer remains on the table for the player to accept unless the team revokes it or if the offer has an expiration date set by the CBA. If the previous team does match the offer sheet, then the player signs with their previous team at the terms offered by the other team. Atlanta: Agnew, Jaylyn Waived, Indiana: Gorecki, Haley Waived Indiana: Hull, Lexie Sign Rookie Scale Contract This may seem repetitive, but both rules are included to account for players who may sit out a year of their rookie contracts and thus would finish year four with only three or fewer years of service. Connecticut: Charles, Kaila Waived This seems to be an unintended consequence, so it is possible the WNBPA and WNBA could work out an amendment covering this situation in the future. Minnesota: Davis, Rennia Waivers Cleared This got the Fever, a team under the team minimum, closer to that benchmark and lessened the shortfall the team owed its players by about $45,000. The core component of rookie contracts is that the player can not have previously signed a WNBA contract. Players are paid in semi-monthly installments by their current teams, so a player's new team is only on the hook for the remaining salary. Minnesota waived her on May 3, but three days later, the Indiana Fever signed her to a hardship contract. In the case of players who were suspended for the final season of their contract, there is no qualifying offer and therefore there is no cap hold. Washington: Gustafson, Megan Waivers Cleared Connecticut: Alexus Dye Sign Training Camp Contract The one exception to the maximum of six protected contracts is that fourth-year team option for rookies drafted in 2020 or later do not count. Indiana: Caldwell, Maya Sign Regular Contract 1 pick in the draft. Chicago: Copper, Kahleah Set Active They drafted me. In 2022, after her 10% raise, Ionescu would earn $76,297 compared to the 2021 number one pick who would earn $71,441. Minnesota Lynx: Yvonne Turner Sign Training Camp Contract The maximum and supermax base salary limits increase by 3% annually, but this is not true for contracts. Indiana: Allen, Lindsay Waived, Phoenix: Gray, Vivian Waived . Indiana: Dangerfield, Crystal Hardship Release, Minnesota: Davis, Rennia Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) Los Angeles: Cooper, Tea Waivers Cleared Las Vegas: Stokes, Kiah Set Active $700,000. She was a teen mom, has been homeless and battered, lost a son to a genetic disorder, and saw her oldest child jailed.But the 50-year-old community advocate has . Chicago Sky: Stella Johnson - ROS (Hardship) Contract Signed Washington Mystics: Alaina Coates - Contract Signed Washington Mystics: Shey Peddy - Contract Signed. 1-4 in the 2022 WNBA Draft, the base salary is expected to be $72,141 in year one. Indiana Fever: Jantel Lavender Contract Amendment Divorce, Indiana Fever: Jaime Nared Sign Training Camp Contract Because health and safety absences are more difficult to predict, that means a quick turnaround to sign a replacement, often based on logistics. A hardship clause in a contract allows the parties to modify or excuse their contract obligations when one of the parties experiences a hardship. If a team wants to exclude that player's salary from its salary cap, it can apply to the league to do so. Chicago Sky: Lexie Brown Sign Training Camp Contract We will have less people interested in global warming and feminism etc, and more people susceptible to religion and science-denying, xenophobia and nationalism. I believe college does more than give you a higher salaryit encourages you to travel and exposes you to different perspectives, which helps combat insularity. Indiana: Vivians, Victoria QO Extended However, if they are drafted again by the same team, they will have to go through the process of remaining out of the professional game for one more season. Connecticut Sun: Joyner Holmes Sign Training Camp Contract While protection is the term used in the CBA, it is commonly referred to as guaranteeing a salary. Additionally, replacement contracts must be signed for 75% of the applicable minimum base salary, which is then prorated in the same way as rest-of-season contracts. Chicago: Copper, Kahleah Suspended Partial Season Aside from coach Noelle Quinn changing some of the terminology, she found the system easy to pick back up. Indiana: Williams-Holliday, Ameshya Waived Atlanta: Caldwell, Maya Sign ROS Contract (Hardship) New York: Johannes, Marine QO Extended Atlanta Dream: Monique Billings Sign Regular Contract Connecticut: Jones, Stephanie Hardship Release, Seattle: Davis, Kaela Hardship Release The minimum salary for an WNBA player with two years of service will rise from $42,728 annually to $57,000 beginning in 2020. Who is Penny Taylor married to? Call them practice players and make sure they don't hit the cap. So, teams may have the rights to more than 12 players - including training camp contracts and players suspended for the season - but that is not a violation of the roster maximum. Phoenix: Dodson, Maya Waivers Cleared This guarantee level is based on all contracts that count on a team's salary by the conclusion of the season. Los Angeles Sparks: Liz Cambage Sign Regular Contract Trade bonuses are additional payments for players who are traded from one team to another. New York: Walker, Megan Traded from Atlanta** Los Angeles: Smith, Kianna 7-Day Contract Release, Connecticut: Jones, Jazmine 7-Day Contract Release If the guarantee level is not met at the end of the season, the league must make payments to all players who were on a roster during that regular season in order to reach the league-wide guarantee level. 12 p.m. CT: Williams deals with what she described as the most difficult part of her journey: getting through TSA security at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Connecticut Sun: Keyona Hayes Sign Training Camp Contract, Las Vegas Aces: Destiny Slocum Waivers Cleared, Dallas Wings: Bella Alarie Personal Decision Full Season, Chicago Sky: Li Yueru Sign Rookie Scale Contract. Connecticut: Williams, Kiana 7-Day Contract Release, Los Angeles: Smith, Kianna Sign ROS Contract Indiana: Chagas, Florencia Set Active, New York: Raincock-Ekunwe, Nayo Rights Renounced Atlanta: Billings, Monique Sign Regular Contract Indiana: Patberg, Ali Waivers Cleared A qualifying offer is a contract that a player's previous team offers to the player in order to ensure negotiation restrictions apply to the player. This rule only considers when the contract was signed rather than whether the player currently counts as a team's one allocated core-designated player. Seattle: Elissa Cunane Required Tender Made 47 6 thatphanom.techno@gmail.com 042-532028 , 042-532027 We will refer to these players as domestic players. 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