I am blessed to have the Phoenix family behind me and their full support. Pronunciation: \BREE-land\. The vast majority of the suspensions in recent weeks were of the 'full season' variety, and agreed upon by the players and teams involved.Mikayla Pivec and Maite Cazorla both agreed to full-season suspensions, while Kobi Thornton never even signed her rookie-scale contract. 7 months after 22-year-old killed in random shooting on I-95, family wants justice. The benefit there is that it opens up a roster spot, and the player can be activated once she's available. This is the first team discussed so far that is almost certainly expecting to head into the season with only 11 players on their roster (as opposed to the maximum of 12). Mercury forward Jessica Breland medically excused from WNBA season(Photo: Mark J. Rebilas, Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports) Breland added 10 points (4-7 FG, 2-2 FT), 12 rebounds, four assists, three steals and one block in Sunday's 71-63 loss against New York. She missed the 2009-10 season while in college at North Carolina for treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.“These last two weeks have been really hard for me,” Breland said in a statement. Breland will join a long and athletic front line in Atlanta, already featuring All-Star Elizabeth Williams and Imani Boyette. “Jessica is a true stretch power forward who will help us at both ends of the floor,” Dream head coach Nicki Collen said in Monday’s release. 09/09/2019 11:28 AM Breland, ... Breland will receive 2020 salary ($117,000) and the Mercury will begin the season on July 25 with 10 players (out of 12 allowed) due to salary cap constraints.
In a normal year these would be 'opening day rosters', but moves are still technically possible before we see any basketball as long as teams stay under the cap. Tayler Hill was waived and bought out (she accepted $90,000 of her $117,000 salary), while Reshanda Gray was also released. Rookies Te'a Cooper and Stella Johnson were waived, as were international signees Olivia Époupa and Sara Blicavs. Jessica Breland redshirted the 2009-10 season at North Carolina after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Phoenix Mercury forward Jessica Breland will not play this WNBA season due to a pre-existing condition. This site uses cookies. As with Chicago, the Sun have the cap space to add a 12th player at some point, but not from the start of regular season payments on June 1.No huge surprises here, but one complication. All Right Reserved. Rookies Beatrice Mompremier and Tynice Martin were waived, but with Russian center Maria Vadeeva deciding to stay overseas the Sparks traded a second-round pick back to Dallas for Kristine Anigwe to add post depth. Because none of the players had done anything to warrant suspension, 'temporary' wasn't an option in all but a couple of special cases this year.
The numbers reported are the full salaries for a standard season, although players may ultimately receive a pro-rated portion of those figures in the case of a shortened regular season format.The WNBA has essentially two kinds of suspension. Due to their high-priced offseason additions and the salary cap, Phoenix was always going to start with an 11-player roster.Once it was known that 2020 first-round pick Kitija Laksa would be staying overseas this year, Seattle's final 12 became virtually a fait accompli.
Hungarian center Bernadett Hatar was suspended for the year, while Paris Kea, Erica McCall, Jessica January and Kamiah Smalls were all waived. They then signed backup post Carolyn Swords as their 11th player, who had previously retired and joined their front office as a marketing specialist.Most of the roster was pretty obvious in Los Angeles. She did not travel to Bradenton, Florida, with the team for the start of training camp at IMG Academy, where the entire WNBA season will be played.The 6-2 Breland, 32, played in the WNBA with New York, Connecticut, Indiana, Chicago and most recently Atlanta before coming to the Mercury. Due to an injury that the league presumably feels she may return from in time to play this season, the Fever were allowed to temporarily suspend Stephanie Mavunga and therefore carry her as a 13th player. Laksa was suspended while fellow rookies Joyner Holmes and Haley Gorecki were waived, leaving the expected 12. They waived Raisa Musina, Avery Warley-Talbert and rookie Lauren Manis, while backup center JiSu Park will be staying home in Korea in 2020.