On Sunday morning, the Minnesota Lynx and Dallas Wings kicked off WNBA commerce deadline week 2025, with the league-leading Lynx buying DiJonai Carrington from the Wings in trade for Diamond Miller, Karlie Samuelson and Minnesota’s 2027 second-round draft choose.
Carrington and Miller had been widely-speculated to be on the transfer, with each gamers lately sprinkling crumbs on social media. Miller additionally didn’t play within the Lynx’s record-breaking highway win over the Las Vegas Aces on Saturday afternoon, additional fueling rumblings about her departure.
In Carrington, the Lynx are buying a two-way pressure able to making performs on protection and ending them on offense. The 2024 Most Improved Participant and All-Protection choice was the Wings’ highest-profile offseason addition; nonetheless, her skills weren’t amplified in Dallas, the place a rib harm additionally inhibited her integration. Count on Carrington to resemble the distinction maker she was with the Connecticut Solar within the successful environs of Minnesota.
Dallas receives a still-promising prospect in Miller in return. The No. 2 choose within the 2023 WNBA Draft, accidents, along with the Lynx’s win-now strategy and stacked rotation, restricted her capacity to exhibit her upside in Minnesota. She’ll have that chance in Dallas, the place, like Haley Jones, she is a second-chance attainable star who ought to be capable to faucet into the perfect model of herself round Paige Bueckers. Samuelson basically serves as matching wage, because the sharpshooter is out for the season as a consequence of foot surgical procedure. To create the mandatory roster area, the Wings additionally waived Teaira McCowan, consuming the rest of her $201,400 protected veteran contract.
