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Your awesome please keep posting these!!!

Paskal Siakam is by far the best NBA player in history.

Love this team! They are really missing their defensive pieces. Nesmith, Sheppard, and Jackson are all what made this team so great. Mathurin, Walker, and Furphy are great, but their inexperience really shows and don't have the explosiveness/hustle as the previous 3....

I would try to convince Janelle Salaun to come over from the Euroleauge. Seems like a good fit with all the things you mentioned and she’s a good defender.

She played well with Clark, and the President has said they want to play fast... so why would they get rid of her? Besides she was their best defender in half court, gave Aja problems. I really hope this is not a sign they want to slow things down

Such a huge mistake to let her go....

No reason to protect a RFA contract unless you want to overpay for them in the future. You would end up in a situation where your roster construction depends entirely on how much value other teams will offer those players and you will lose flexibility. Unless that player is basically a defacto number 1 player, you don't normally pick a bench player as a RFA because that's how you overpay players that have limited use in the future and get these "deadweight" contracts that you can't do anything with. Fever did a good job by not falling for that trap and leaving their options open. They're still able to offer her a contract, though at a fair market value that they want to afford--which other teams can match or surpass as much as they want. Fever got 600k cap space to pursue like 4 players with. Obviously, they'll use 250k core value to retain Mitchell... Leaving them with like 350k to fill 3 roster spots with. They got 2 top 20 draft picks that are like 150k and so that leaves them with 200k to spend on the last player. If they want to pursue the Satou Sabally trade, then they got more than enough cap space to send Smith + Wallace over to Dallas and help take some of the contract cap space that Dallas would have lost with Satou--giving them more options to fill out their roster with more talent. It just makes sense for them to not waste their cap space on 3.5 PPG roster spots with half of their games being injured. If GSV don't offer her a good contract, she can come back for maybe 85k to 100k ballpark range.

Explain core to me. Even if core mitchell can she still leave?

GSV has pretty much sold out their season tickets for the year. They are also selling a tremendous amount of jerseys. Martin will help with the jerseys. In FA, the Fever should offer Erica Wheeler or Kristy Wallace and their 2nd for Kate Martin. I am not saying Kate Martin is this good player. She is a good leader. She is average offense and very average defender. She cannot get her own shot. Her and CC are special together. She can hit wide open 3's. She can hit mid range shots. She can run the floor and catch passes from CC at a high level. She is a really good back door player who is very good at hitting layups. You need a top PG to put Kate Martin in these positions. Martin is a seller of merchandise and will not touch a cent of it.

I think they protected Berger over Dantas and Fagbenle. True PG's are few in the WNBA. Backups are typically 2-guards. Berger can play the 1 and the 2. 4 & 5's are a dime a dozen in this league. GSV picked up 7 international players. None probably will come over before the new TV contract kicks in 2026. They are using most of those 7, to pick up extra draft picks and trades. Fagbenle should get free agency offers and GSV will have to match or let her walk.

Great insight, thanks!

Trade Smith

We lost Temi 😭😭😂

I don’t get it fever say they wanna run and they got rid of Temi

From what I’ve read about the expansion. Free agents weren’t part of the 6 players being protected. If that’s the case, Kelsey wouldn’t have to be one of the 6 players being protected. So, if we take Kelsey off the list, we have CC, AB, LH and NS. That leaves 2 others. I’d guess GB. And DD instead of TF. I’m sad to see Temi go. I had hoped she would be protected. But I wish her the best and will be cheering her on as a Valkyrie.

Fever wants to keep Kelsey and make room to bring in another big free agent. And a they have contract players.

Getting Katie was a bad choice and shes super expensive

I bet they protected Grace

Temi Fagbenle selected by Golden State. Video tomorrow!

Thanks!

If they core Mitchell, they don't have to protect her. And 100% agree with you on Smith.

I would like the Fever to offer their 2nd round draft pick tonight to GSV for Megan Gustafson. Seems like they will protect Martin and not Gustafson. Gustafson is a much better player than Dantas.

I would replace Fagbenle with Berger. Fagbenle is older and possibly injury prone. WNBA is short on quality point guards and so is the WCBB draft. 3 & 4 are a dime a dozen. A quality back up PG is rare in the WNBA. Plus CC will have to play defense this year. Meaning she cannot average 36+ minutes per game. Berger can also back up the 2.

Fever absolutely need another guard, KM and CC can’t play 40 minutes a game. Maybe not the primary thing they need, but it’s absolutely on the list

Protect CC, Ab, Mitchel, Hull, Fagbenle, & Berger

My list to ptotect CC, Berger, Hull, AB, KM, ?

Hey Tony. Always appreciate your Fever related coverage.

When do they reveal the lists of available players? …great post.. thanks!

Let's discuss the next Knicks vs. Pacers game in February.

I like both Temi and Dantas but I'm of the opinion you protect Berger over either. You're almost certainly trading Nalyssa for someone else who can play the 4 (but more naturally within the Indiana system), so what we're really asking is: do the Fever need a 4-5 more than a 1-2-3 off the bench? And I actually don't think they do. Nalyssa averaged fewer than 25 minutes per last year and Aliyah under 31. Clark was over 35, Mitchell at 32, and even Hull- once she ended up in the starting 5- was averaging over 30. The Fever were just fine when Nalyssa and Boston were off the floor. The drop-off was significant when Clark, Mitchell, and post-break Hull were sitting. Which tells me that bench depth for those positions- giving White legitimate options that don't make the team fall to pieces- is more important than anything going on at the 4 and 5. Enter Berger. She is a much more natural fit for the role they tried to shoehorn Wheeler into last year- someone you can use to spell both Clark and Mitchell and even occasionally Hull. A Clark-Mitchell-Berger rotation isn't disastrously small and is plausible for a few minutes a game. That leaves Samuelson, if she returns to any kind of form, spelling the 4 and sometimes the 3. Which makes more sense than the other way around? She was way too slow to consistently guard wings but she's faster than Dantas while being able to perform the same role of spreading the floor. Plus, there are good draft choices, who will likely fall to around 8, who can play a 4 off the bench. Janiah Barker comes to mind, immediately. Even Aneesah Morrow can probably play the 4 in the W, for a few minutes, if pressed, and would be a fantastic stretch 3 off the bench if they can teach her to shoot 3s. In contrast, there aren't many guards in the draft who have any size and none who is likely to fall to the Fever at 8 and none, other than Paige and Miles, who would even be as good at Berger at the 1, nevermind making a reasonable backup option at the 2 and 3.

Really appreciate you and Scott Agnes giving actual journalistic approaches to the Indiana fever. I feel like that’s just something the WNBA is really missing with their media. Lol.

So sad

Great report! Thank you!

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Glad you’re posting this. The actual Indiana pacers page is only posting Carlisle lately.

Reality is the Pacers Suck 😂

I hope Pacers can adjust their state well

Title is a bit misleading, raptors missing many key starters. A more apt title would be pacers dropped game to depleted raptors. Miles turner out.

Bro ...... Raptors don't wanna beat nobody. We are tanking for real. It's just unfortunate that we beat you. We are following the process. We want to win the tank warfare. What Toronto fans dread right now is a winning steak. We don't want it. Not this year

Why is James Johnson on the roster?

Tough night

That is no excuse to lose to a team who is 2-11 missing their two best players Scottie Barnes and Emanuel Quickley, as well as other top end rotation players such as Olynyk, Bruce Brown, Jakobe Walter, Bruno Fernando. They were without 6 core players. Yes it was a back to back but Pacers had their best two while the Raptors did not.

Thanks for the recaps

FIRST IN THA BUILDIN

tony east

Duke legend

Sorry for the many buzzers, the Heat were being rushed off the court before a Mad Ants game here in Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

Fire 🔥 the Knicks coach he’s the real problem

Love Pascal showing his leadership