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When the Indiana Fever made the playoffs for the first time since 2016 last season, their roster claimed 19 total games of WNBA playoff experience. This offseason, they’ve added players with 155 total games of playoff experience.
DeWanna Bonner, responsible for 87 of those games, is the franchise’s latest get, with the 15-year vet and two-time champion leaving the Connecticut Sun to sign a one-year contract with the Fever.
Breaking: 6x-time All-Star and WNBA champ DeWanna Bonner is signing with the Indiana Fever, sources told ESPN
By re-signing Kelsey Mitchell, trading for Sophie Cunningham, and signing experienced vets Bonner & Natasha Howard, the Fever have catapulted into the title conversation pic.twitter.com/5jCFMLYrH1
— Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) February 2, 2025
Bonner joins Natasha Howard and Sophie Cunningham in Indiana. Howard, a three-time champ with 53 career playoff games, also signed as an unrestricted free agent after spending the past two seasons with the Dallas Wings, while Cunningham, who has played in 15 career playoff games, was acquired from the Phoenix Mercury as part of a three-team trade. The trio of newcomers signal the Fever’s serious championship-contention aspirations. Indiana also inked Kelsey Mitchell to a one-year supermax deal, keeping the Fever lifer in Indianapolis.
In choosing to sign in Indiana, Bonner not only reunites with head coach Stephanie White, who was in charge of Bonner’s Sun the past two seasons, but also with Fever general manager Amber Cox, whose time in the front offices in Phoenix and Connecticut coincided with Bonner’s tenures with both franchises.
