Former Lady Vols Star Diamond Deshield from Connecticut Sun does not

The former basketball star Diamond Deshield from Lady Vols was dispensed with by the Connecticut Sun, the organization announced on May 15.

It was the last squad of the sun to complete the squad for the 2025 WNBA season. Deshields signed a one -year unprotected contract with Connecticut in the free agency in the off -season.

The move was surprising because it was one of the two remarkable obligations for the sun after the entire core was signed by other teams or acted in a free agency. She was also one of only five players on the list who have more than three years of experience in the league.

But for most of the training camp, Deshield was with an ankle injury out of the game, and she was not active in the two pre -season games of the sun.

Deshield was the number 3 of the overall selection in the 2018 WNBA design. She was selected by Chicago Sky and played there from 2018 to 2021. In 2021 she won a WNBA championship with Tennessee Legend Candace Parker and this season scored an average of 11.3 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.2 steals.

Deshield’s career was on a positive trajectory sie in 2019 an all-star and all-WNBA selection of the second team. Since then there have been several hurdles that could overcome Deshield, including a long recovery of an operation in which a tumor was removed from her spinal cord in 2020.

Due to the nerve damage, the surgery recovered an impressive recovery from the uncontrollable cramps and tremors. But then she suffered a knee injury in 2023, which she stopped with the Dallas Wings throughout the season.

Deshield played every season in another team since the sky exchanged her against the Phoenix Mercury before the 2022 season. She scored an average of 13.1 points, 3.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists and the theft in 30 games with the mercury. Deshields returned to heaven in 2024 after not playing a single game for Dallas and hired a one -year deal as a free agent. In 32 games she scored an average of 4.5 points, 1.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists.

Deshields played for Lady Vols from 2014-17 after playing her new season in North Carolina. She was an all-secret team selection in her redshirt junior season when she achieved an average of 17.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game. After that, Deshields became professional and played professionally in Turkey in 2017-18 before entering the 2018 WNBA design.

Cora Hall covers the athletics of the women from the University of Tennessee. Send an e -mail to [email protected] and follow her on Twitter @Corahalll. If you enjoy Cora’s reporting, you should consider a digital subscription that you can use to access everything.

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Former Lady Vols Star Diamond Deshield from Connecticut Sun does not

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