Sparks Trying To Poach Kiana Williams From Phoenix's Developmental Squad

With respective injuries, the Sparks took a imaginative attack to get patient players.

After nan Sparks’ blowout nonaccomplishment to Minnesota connected Wednesday without Kelsey Plum (lower near leg) and Cameron Brink (left ankle), they became nan first WNBA squad to poach different team’s developmental subordinate by offering a statement to Phoenix defender Kiana Williams.

After immoderate subordinate is successful a developmental spot for 14 days aliases more, different WNBA squad tin return them and connection them a statement for their 12-player regular roster. Teams cannot pluck a developmental subordinate from different squad connected a developmental deal.

The squad nan subordinate primitively signed pinch tin clasp that subordinate if they take to put them connected nan regular roster by cutting different player.

If nan Mercury fto Williams go, nan Sparks will person to trim a subordinate from their regular roster.

Developmental subordinate Kate Martin besides sustained a near knee wounded connected Wednesday night, but she only has 2 games remaining earlier nan Sparks person to elevate her to their regular roster aliases she will beryllium ineligible to play for them again this season. Another squad could besides poach her.

If Martin was going to beryllium promoted to nan regular roster astatine immoderate point, they would person to trim a player. But pinch really banged up nan Sparks are and pinch 2 bad losses successful a row, they mightiness conscionable beryllium trying to alteration things up.

The 27-year-old Williams has played successful 8 games this play and averaged 4.8 points connected 36.4% shooting from nan section successful 14.1 minutes per game. She played 11 games for Phoenix past play and has played successful 46 during a six-year profession that began successful Seattle and included a extremity successful Connecticut.

She is scoring much per crippled than Sparks rookies Chance Gray and Ta’Niya Latson arsenic good arsenic veterans Emma Cannon, Sania Feagin and Jihyun Park, but only Gray has been successful their regular rotation. Williams would person nan eighth-most minutes connected nan Sparks arsenic well.