WNBA Free Agent List Released

WNBA has released free agent list for the upcoming free agency. Teams can start negotiating with their own cored and reserved players as well as all restricted and unrestricted players today. Contracts and offer sheets can be signed after February 1.

The list is an odd one. For whatever the reason teams keep extending qualifying offers to likes of Agnieszka Bibrzycka, Ha Eun Joo and Emmeline Ndongue. Without an expressed desire to play in the WNBA these players don’t have any value.

After Indiana Fever has maxed out times they could core Tamika Catchings she hits the unrestricted free agency. Had she not won a title last year there would surely be talk of her moving to a contender. Now it doesn’t seem as plausible she’s leaving Indiana.

Atlanta having cored Erika de Souza last year could not core Lindsey Harding. Harding not being known for staying in one team for too long, this might be concerning for the Dream fans heading in the free agency.

The only other difference maker among the UFA’s not named Catchings and Harding is Jia Perkins, although some would qualify Temeka Johnson under that description, too.

Apparently NY’s Bill Laimbeer has found some decade old contracts in some drawer which I’d guess he has terminated, so the likes of Elisabeth Cebrian, Katerina Lazic and Hadjana Radnovic are on the UFA list.

Unless she has been claimed off the waivers, Erin Thorn should also be on the UFA list.

Despite visiting the team two summers ago, Seattle Storm has apparently given up on Tijana Krivacevic who they drafted in 2010.

Anete Jekabsone-Zogota had another year under contract with Connecticut Sun, so it appears they have waived her for her to become an UFA.

CORE PLAYERS

Deanna Nolan (Tul)

RESERVED PLAYERS

Jessica Adair (Minn)
Agnieszka Bibrzycka (SA)
Abby Bishop (Sea)
Chante Black (Tul)
Alysha Clark (Sea)
Aneika Henry (Atl)
Ha Eun Joo (LA)
Lynetta Kizer (Phx)
Ewelina Kobryn (Sea)
Erlana Larkins (Ind)
Ziomara Morrison (SA)
Emmeline Ndongue (LA)
Jenna O’Hea (LA)
Courtney Paris (Tul)
Krystal Thomas (Phx)
Jana Vesela (Sea)

RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS

Shannon Bobbitt (Wash)
DeWanna Bonner (Phx)
Essence Carson (NY)
Marissa Coleman (LA)
Amber Holt (Tul)
Briann January (Ind)
Edwige Lawson-Wade (SA)
Angel McCoughtry (Atl)
Renee Montgomery (CT)
Kristi Toliver (LA)
Kia Vaughn (NY)
Candice Wiggins (Minn)
Lindsay Wisdom-Hilton (Wash)
Tamera Young (Chi)
Shavonte Zellous (Ind)

UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS

Svetlana Abrosimova
Suzy Batkovic-Brown
Tully Bevilaqua
Kara Braxton
Tamika Catchings
Iziane Castro Marques
Elisabeth Cebrian
Shanna Crossley
Lindsey Harding
Roneeka Hodges
Dalma Ivanyi
Anete Jakabsone-Zogota
Temeka Johnson
Laurie Koehn
Tijana Krivacevic
Ivory Latta
Katerina Lazic
Taj McWilliams-Franklin
Delisha Milton-Jones
Jessica Moore
Ticha Penicheiro
Jia Perkins
Noelle Quinn
Hadjana Radnovic
Katelan Redmon
Ashley Robinson
Nakia Sanford
Dymond Simon
Katie Smith
Tammy Sutton-Brown
DeMya Walker
Le’Coe Willingham