Admittedly, Brondello thought she was free from All-Star coaching obligations since the Mercury were a half game ahead of the Liberty in the WNBA standings with only the Wings on deck earlier this month before the top two WNBA coaches were picked.

Phoenix Mercury Make Roster Move Before WNBA All-Star Break originally appeared on Athlon Sports. After finishing the 2024 WNBA season at 19-21 and missing out on the playoffs, Phoenix entered 2025 with sweeping changes.

The Phoenix Mercury had their worst season in 2012, and in the 2013 WNBA Draft, they selected a center out of Baylor.

The major free agent who could change the balance of power among the top three teams is Emma Meesseman, the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP who last played in the league in 2022, when she was an All-Star for the Chicago Sky.

Napheesa Collier, Kayla McBride and Courtney Williams will be representing the Lynx on the court in Saturday’s WNBA All-Star Game. Coach Cheryl Reeve will be leading Team Collier. But the Lynx

However, second-year forward Angel Reese is having another dominant campaign, as she earned her second straight All-Star nod this season. Reese is averaging a league-best 12.6 rebounds per game, as well as a career high 14.0 points and 3.8 assists per contest.

Even though Diana Taurasi has retired, the WNBA's biggest trash talker remains in Phoenix. Taurasi held down the honor for the past two years, but now it's Mercury star Alyssa Thomas' turn. Thomas now holds the baton as the league's No. 1 trash talker, according to her peers in an anonymous poll from The Athletic.

WNBA players rated the Phoenix Mercury as the league's best-run franchise, according to a poll conducted by The Athletic. State of play: In the anonymous poll of 39 players from all 13 franchises — no rookies were included to best represent veterans' views — 28.6% of respondents picked the Mercury.