Wings add veteran forward Alysha Clark on one-year deal
Three-time WNBA champion Alysha Clark you’ve gotten agreed to a one-year deal to affix the Dallas Wingsher agent, Jessica Holtz of CAA, advised ESPN on Tuesday.
The 5-foot-11 forward is a two-time All-Defensive choice and the 2023 Sixth Player of the Year. She received a pair of titles with the Seattle Storm in 2018 and 2020 in addition to one with the Las Vegas Aces in 2023.
Clark — 38, the oldest participant within the league — brings expertise and a championship pedigree to a surging Wings franchise that on Monday night time drafted Azzi Fudd No. 1, the Wings’ second consecutive high choice after taking Paige Bueckers No. 1 final yr.
Dallas had an enormous free company over the previous week, buying different skilled veteran items in Alanna Smith and Jessica Shepard whereas re-signing Arike Ogunbowale.
Coming off a two-year stint with the Aces, Clark signed a one-year deal to return to the Storm final offseason earlier than she was traded to the Washington Mystics in August.
In Seattle, Clark averaged 18 minutes per sport, his fewest since 2014, and was bumped from a beginning position seven video games into the season. She appeared in 15 video games for the Mystics on the finish of the marketing campaign.
Clark sports activities profession averages of 6.6 factors, 3.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists in addition to a 37.3% clip from the 3-point arc.
She was drafted within the second spherical in 2010 by the San Antonio Silver Stars after main the nation in scoring in back-to-back seasons (2008-09, 2009-10) at Middle Tennessee.
As vp of the WNBPA, Clark not too long ago helped the gamers’ union negotiate a brand new collective bargaining settlement, which was agreed upon final month.
