
The WNBA season is just around the corner, and with it the cuts come. Breseason brings with her a big competitive race to extract one of the desired list of the league before the regular season on May 16.
Although the 13th team brought this year, with the addition of Golden State Valkyries, WNBA is still one of the smallest professional championships in the country. Young people must compete with veteran players in 12 sites in each team – and many will not reach the final team lists.
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A few weeks after the draft WNBA 2025, the teams began to waive some of the NCAa stars they formulated. Some prominent names have already lost the college scene on their WNBA sites, with more surprising discounts that are still likely to come.
Who are some of the prominent players who give up?
Among the first prominent young men who were waived were SEANNE SELLERS, who were waived by Golden State Valkyries on May 3. The Maryland goalkeeper and the seventeenth year selection were chosen by Atlanta a dream, a team that enters a new era after its busy season. Whether the sellers are able to make the final dream list still must be determined, as Atlanta currently has more than 12 players in its list.
There were other prominent pieces that were Berri Hall, which was waived by Indiana fever on May 5. Hall, a former South Carolina goalkeeper, was chosen with two NCAA lengths under her belt, with one of the second round choices of fever (twenty in general), but it is imposed on a list of a few weeks later.
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On May 7, Harmondi Turner – a prominent goalkeeper at Harvard University and player player IVY league joined the candidates’ list to the judiciary when it was waived by Las Vegas Aceses. Turner was chosen by Aces in the third round, in the 35th place in general.
Why are many WNBA players waived?
When it comes to WNBA, the simple answer is that there are not enough sites to accommodate the number of talented players coming from NCAA. With 13 teams in 12 sites each, there are only 156 total sites on the list throughout the league – with many of those sites that I have already taken by the veterans and stars.
In general, although draft choices in the first round are likely to make their lists, most of the players who were chosen in the WNBA draft will not make their team’s final list.
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These final lists should be set before the start of the regular season on May 16, which means that the teams should be reduced to 12 players before that. More than twenty players via their WNBA It has already been waived; A large part of these players are the young people who did not go.
Is the salary cover a factor?
Frankly, money is not part of the equation when it comes to the wave of concessions during the pre -assuming period. The current annual salary in WNBA is 66,079 dollars for the rising salary – a number that may change soon, with the end of the collective negotiation agreement in the league in the fall. All the players who were chosen in the third round or do not earn this amount in their first year.
All WNBA teams have the maximum signing space for rising players, According to SpotracBut the restrictions imposed on the sites of the list are really preventing the teams from filling their seats a little more than that.
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The signing of the rising contract does not guarantee that the player is not cut off from the list. By giving up the player, the team is outside this contract, while the team that picks up this player will also get his current contract (rising).
What is the next for players who give up?
The small WNBA lists are a point of disagreement, as the league also does not have any type of simple league, such as the US League in the American Professional League, which players can sign. Most of the players who do not make lists of travel abroad will end in the championships of other countries in countries such as China, Russia, Turkey and more.
Ironically, many of these tournaments pay more money than Wnba, although players who are not great talent You tend to make six numbers low.
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Other prominent young women who have been waived:
Behind the sellers, Hull and Turner, many other players and free players who were the big names in the college failed to make a reduction in WNBA.
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Alyssa Ustby – a former goalkeeper/attacker, was assigned by Los Angeles Sparks on May 2
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The former TCU’s Madison Conner, which Seattle Storm gave up on May 6 (select the third round, was chosen 29 in general)
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Jordan Hobbes-Michigan’s former goalkeeper, I gave up Storm Storm on May 6 (select the third round, was chosen in general) in general)
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Aaronette Vonleh-former Baylor Center, abdicated by Dallas Wings on May 6 (select the third round, was chosen in general 31)
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Danaya Daniels-former Washington striker, gave up Minnesota Linux on May 7 (choosing the second round, 24 in general)
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Diamond Johnson – former Norfolk State Guard
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Ijem-former Gonzaga striker, waved Indiana fever in May (selecting the third round, 33 in general)