The UConn Blog · May 22, 2019
WNBA Will Lack UConn Star Power This Season
Ian Bethune/The UConn Blog The WNBA will have no shortage of former UConn women’s basketball stars this season with 18 players under contract with one of the 12 teams. However, the league will be lacking some its brightest stars this year as four Huskies will either miss the entire season (or close to it).
On Tuesday, the Seattle Storm announce that Sue Bird will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery to “remove a loose body” in her left knee. The operation will threaten Bird’s season with the team saying she will be out “indefinitely.”