WNBA: Why Amihere, Morrow and Sabally deserve fantasy consideration

Fairly a bit has occurred since our final WNBA fantasy basketball seize bag, together with a number of gamers leaving the nation to take part in FIBA’s EuroBasket Girls competitors, as our Łukasz Muniowski wrote final week. Most of those gamers are within the rotation for his or her respective WNBA groups, so these groups have needed to regulate for his or her absences. The Golden State Valkyries, particularly, have seen two younger gamers step up and turn out to be dependable fantasy basketball provides previously week.

Elsewhere, the same old traits, equivalent to harm replacements and minutes distributions, stay price following. Let’s go over a couple of of the extra widespread WNBA fantasy basketball provides and talk about how these traits would possibly maintain—or not.

Carla Leite, Laeticia Amihere stepping up for Golden State

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Of all of the WNBA groups affected by the continued Girls’s EuroBasket competitors, none have been hit as arduous because the Golden State Valkyries. They’re at the moment with out 4 gamers (Temi Fagbenle, Julie Vanloo, Janelle Salaün and Cecilia Zandalasini), which has left fairly a couple of minutes up for grabs.

Carla Leite is one participant who’s taking benefit. Her minutes have been up-and-down to start her WNBA profession, however the 21-year previous guard has had a constant spot within the rotation since Vanloo left, and she or he’s averaged 10 factors, 3.7 assists and one steal in 26.4 minutes per sport throughout that span (17.3 fantasy factors). She’ll have a tough time unseating Veronica Burton because the Valkyries’ go-to ball handler, however so long as Golden State is brief on guards, it should depend upon Leite as a distributor and as somebody who can break defenses down off the dribble.

Laeticia Amihere can be making an impression, although her scenario could also be somewhat extra unstable than Leite’s. Initially a coaching camp invite who the Valkyries reduce earlier than the common season started, Amihere was introduced again to Golden State earlier in June, and she or he’s delivered a number of noteworthy performances in a row, totaling 24 factors, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 6 defensive stats in her final two video games. Amihere was initially drafted by Atlanta again in 2023 for her athletic potential, and although she nonetheless has some rising to do, she’s at the moment taking part in with a freedom she hadn’t loved in her first two seasons within the WNBA.

From a fantasy perspective, each Leite and Amihere must be thought of fill-ins in the meanwhile. EuroBasket runs by June 29, and because the Valkyries’ absences return, Leite and Amihere will see their alternatives diminish. We’ve already seen sufficient to maintain them each on watch lists shifting ahead, although, and provided that they’re taking part in for an growth workforce, their numbers could also be known as once more later within the season. Ensure you don’t miss out if that occurs!

Is Aneesah Morrow getting getting into Connecticut?

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Morrow was one in every of two gamers taken by the Connecticut Solar within the first spherical of the 2025 WNBA Draft (Saniya Rivers the opposite), however in contrast to Rivers, whose fantasy sport we highlighted earlier within the month, Morrow has needed to combat for her time on the court docket. She’s taking part in behind established veterans like Tina Charles and Olivia Nelson-Ododa, showing in roughly 11 minutes per sport to date and even racking up a couple of DNPs.

Morrow has had a few sturdy video games in a row, nevertheless, recording 16 factors, 9 rebounds and three steals final Wednesday and following it up with 10 factors and 7 rebounds on Friday. In each video games, she performed practically as minutes as Nelson-Ododa, seemingly having established herself as Connecticut’s third huge.

There’s no indication that Charles or Nelson-Ododa are going wherever, however the Solar are off to a woeful begin at 2-11, so that they in all probability gained’t be leaning too closely on these veterans for the whole season. Morrow is a rebounding machine who leverages her physicality successfully, having been to the free throw line 5 or extra instances on three events this season—so she undoubtedly has fantasy basketball potential. She’s not fairly in must-roster territory but, but when the Solar pack it in and commit totally to participant improvement, she’ll be placing up greater numbers quickly.

Nyara Sabally stands to learn from Jonquel Jones’ harm

The New York Liberty just lately introduced that star middle Jonquel Jones will miss the subsequent 4 to 6 weeks with an ankle sprain. In fantasy basketball phrases, meaning it’s time to contemplate including Nyara Sabally.

Sabally is, in fact, not going to single-handedly change Jones’ averages of 12.1 factors, 9.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per sport, however she’s at the moment posting career-highs of seven factors, 5 rebounds and 1.5 steals per sport (17.5 fantasy factors), and if she’s taking part in starters’ minutes, she’s undoubtedly price a spot on fantasy rosters. In three earlier video games as a starter, Sabally averaged 9 factors, 5 rebounds, and a large 4.6 defensive stats in 21 minutes; whereas it’s not practical to count on her to proceed that defensive manufacturing, Sabally will preserve scoring at a excessive proportion from the sphere, particularly when taking part in alongside New York’s greatest shot creators.