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Marina Mabrey Requests Trade After Connecticut Sun's Offseason Moves
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Marina Mabrey has requested a trade from the Connecticut Sun after the team's roster went through extreme turnover this offseason. The Sun hit the rebuild button by trading Alyssa Thomas and DiJonai Carrington, while DeWanna Bonner and Brionna Jones went elsewhere in free agency.
Mabrey's trade request was reported by ESPN's Alexa Philippou. Mabrey arrived in Connecticut last season after she requested a trade from the Chicago Sky, hoping to join a contender. Now, she looks to do the same after Connecticut's core was broken up this offseason.
Breaking: Guard Marina Mabrey has requested a trade from the Connecticut Sun, her agent, The FAM’s Marcus Crenshaw, told ESPN Wednesday.
— Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) February 5, 2025
Mabrey averaged 14.4 points and 4.1 assists per game last season across stints with the Chicago Sky and Sun, whom she was traded to midseason pic.twitter.com/R95jAFYVqu
In 16 games with the Sun, she averaged 14.9 points and 3.4 assists per game while shooting 42.4% from three-point range in a role mostly as the first player off the bench. Connecticut fell to the Minnesota Lynx in a win or go home Game 5 last season for a chance to play in the WNBA Finals against the eventual champion New York Liberty.
As one of the WNBA's best volume three-point shooters, the veteran guard will surely garner plenty of suitors on the trade market. She was drafted by the Los Angeles Sparks in 2019 and was traded to the Dallas Wings after one season in L.A. She was traded to the Sky in 2023 after three years in Dallas, before she eventually landed in Connecticut after a season and a half in Chicago.
The Sun signed Tina Charles and Diamond DeShields recently, while also taking back Natasha Cloud and Jacy Sheldon in offseason trades. With Mabrey requesting a trade, the Sun will be a completely new team in 2025.
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Blake Silverman is a writer at Sports Illustrated, primarily covering the NBA and WNBA. Before joining SI in November 2024 as a breaking/trending news writer, he covered the WNBA, NBA, G League and college basketball for numerous sites, including Winsidr, SB Nation and A10Talk. He’s an alum of both Michigan State and St. Bonaventure University, receiving a master’s degree from the Bonnies’ sports journalism program. Outside of work, he’s a husband, father, yogi and fairly mediocre tennis player who’s open to any tips on how to play defense in EA Sports College Football.
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