List of 2020 WNBA season transactions

This is a list of transactions that have taken place during the off-season and the 2020 WNBA season.

Date	Name	Team(s) played (years)	Age	Notes	Ref.
June 2019	Camille Little	San Antonio Silver Stars (2007) Atlanta Dream (2008) Seattle Storm (2008–2014) Connecticut Sun (2015–2016) Phoenix Mercury (2017–2019)	34	WNBA Champion (2010) WNBA All-Rookie Team (2007) Also played overseas in Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, China and Italy.	^[1]
September 2019	Sancho Lyttle	Houston Comets (2005–2008) Atlanta Dream (2009–2017) Phoenix Mercury (2018–2019)	36	WNBA All-Star (2009) 2× WNBA steals leader (2015, 2016) Also played overseas in Spain, Turkey and Russia.	^[2]
January 22, 2020	Alana Beard	Washington Mystics (2004–2011) Los Angeles Sparks (2012–2019)	37	WNBA Champion (2016) 4× WNBA All-Star (2005–2007, 2009) All-WNBA Second Team (2006) 2× WNBA Defensive Player of the Year (2017, 2018) 5× WNBA All-Defensive First Team (2007, 2012, 2016–2018) 4× WNBA All-Defensive Second Team (2005, 2006, 2009, 2014) Also played overseas in Australia, South Korea, Israel, Poland and Spain.	^[3]^[4]
February 11, 2020	Rebekkah Brunson	Sacramento Monarchs (2004–2009) Minnesota Lynx (2010–2018)	38	5× WNBA Champion (2005, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) 5× WNBA All-Star (2007, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2018) WNBA All-Defensive First Team (2011) 6× WNBA All-Defensive Second Team (2007, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2018) WNBA all-time rebounding leader Also played overseas in Belgium, Russia, Italy, Spain and Czech Republic.	^[5]^[6]
February 24, 2020	Carolyn Swords	Chicago Sky (2011–2013) New York Liberty (2015–2016) Seattle Storm (2017) Las Vegas Aces (2018–2019)	30	Also played overseas in Turkey, Spain, Italy, Australia and Poland. Subsequently took back retirement in 2020 to continue playing for the Aces.	^[7]

Departure date	Team	Outgoing head coach	Reason for departure	Hire date	Incoming head coach	Last coaching position	Ref.
September 9	Indiana Fever	Pokey Chatman	Fired	November 26	Marianne Stanley	Washington Mystics assistant coach (2010–2019)	^[8]^[9]
October 16	New York Liberty	Katie Smith	Fired	January 9	Walt Hopkins	Minnesota Lynx assistant coach (2017–2019)	^[10]^[11]

February
February 10	To Atlanta Dream Kalani Brown	To Los Angeles Sparks Marie Gülich Brittney Sykes	^[12]
February 10	To Seattle Storm Morgan Tuck 2020 first-round pick (#11)	To Connecticut Sun 2020 first-round pick (#7)	^[13]
February 11	To Connecticut Sun DeWanna Bonner	To Phoenix Mercury 2020 first-round pick (#7) 2020 first-round pick (#10) 2021 first-round pick	^[14]
February 12	To Phoenix Mercury Skylar Diggins-Smith	To Dallas Wings 2020 first-round pick (#5) 2020 first-round pick (#7) 2021 first-round pick	^[15]
February 12	To Dallas Wings Astou Ndour	To Chicago Sky 2021 first-round pick	^[16]
February 14	To Dallas Wings Katie Lou Samuelson 2021 first-round pick	To Chicago Sky Azurá Stevens	^[17]^[18]
February 19	Three-team trade
	To Atlanta Dream Courtney Williams (from Connecticut) 2020 second-round pick (#17) (from Phoenix)	To Connecticut Sun Briann January (from Phoenix) 2021 second-round pick (from Phoenix)	^[19]^[20]
	To Phoenix Mercury Jessica Breland (from Atlanta) Nia Coffey (from Atlanta)		^[19]^[20]
February 21	To Dallas Wings Marina Mabrey	To Los Angeles Sparks 2021 second-round pick	^[21]
February 24	To Connecticut Sun Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis	To Seattle Storm 2021 second-round pick	^[22]
February 25	To Minnesota Lynx Rachel Banham	To Connecticut Sun 2021 second-round pick	^[23]
March
March 6	To Minnesota Lynx Shenise Johnson 2020 second-round pick (#16)	To Indiana Fever 2020 second-round pick (#14) 2021 third-round pick	^[24]
April
April 15	Three-team trade
	To Dallas Wings 2021 first-round pick (from Washington) 2021 second-round pick (from New York)	To New York Liberty Tayler Hill (from Dallas) Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (from Washington) 2020 first-round pick (#7) 2020 second-round pick (#12) 2020 second-round pick (#15) 2021 first-round pick (from Washington) 2021 second-round pick (from Washington) 2021 third-round pick (from Washington)	^[25]^[26]^[27]
	To Washington Mystics Tina Charles (from New York)		^[25]^[26]^[27]
April 17	To Minnesota Lynx Erica Ogwumike	To New York Liberty Stephanie Talbot	^[28]
April 17	To New York Liberty Jocelyn Willoughby	To Phoenix Mercury Shatori Walker-Kimbrough	^[29]
August
August 28	To Chicago Sky Stephanie Mavunga	To Indiana Fever Jantel Lavender 2021 second-round pick 2021 third-round pick	^[30]^[31]

Player	Date signed	New team	Former team	Ref
Natisha Hiedeman	February 10	Connecticut Sun		^[32]
Jonquel Jones		Connecticut Sun		^[33]
Morgan Bertsch		Dallas Wings		^[34]
Megan Gustafson		Dallas Wings
Moriah Jefferson		Dallas Wings
Imani McGee-Stafford		Dallas Wings
Karlie Samuelson		Dallas Wings
Angel McCoughtry		Las Vegas Aces	Atlanta Dream	^[35]
Kristi Toliver		Los Angeles Sparks	Washington Mystics	^[36]
Layshia Clarendon		New York Liberty	Connecticut Sun	^[37]
Isabelle Harrison	February 11	Dallas Wings		^[38]
Tierra Ruffin-Pratt		Los Angeles Sparks		^[39]
Elena Delle Donne		Washington Mystics		^[40]
Glory Johnson	February 13	Atlanta Dream	Dallas Wings	^[41]
Sydney Colson		Chicago Sky	Las Vegas Aces	^[42]
Betnijah Laney		Indiana Fever		^[43]
Tiffany Mitchell		Indiana Fever		^[44]
Brittney Griner		Phoenix Mercury		^[45]
Bria Hartley		Phoenix Mercury	New York Liberty	^[46]
Breanna Stewart		Seattle Storm		^[47]
Leilani Mitchell		Washington Mystics	Phoenix Mercury	^[48]
Kahleah Copper	February 15	Chicago Sky		^[49]
Bria Holmes	February 15	Connecticut Sun		^[50]
Shekinna Stricklen	February 16	Atlanta Dream	Connecticut Sun	^[51]
Danielle Robinson	February 16	Las Vegas Aces	Minnesota Lynx	^[52]
Stefanie Dolson	February 17	Chicago Sky		^[53]
Emma Meesseman	February 17	Washington Mystics		^[54]
Alexis Jones	February 18	Atlanta Dream (claimed off waivers)	Los Angeles Sparks (waived on February 15)	^[55]
Sugar Rodgers	February 18	Las Vegas Aces		^[56]
Allie Quigley	February 19	Chicago Sky		^[57]
Bernadett Határ	February 19	Indiana Fever	Sopron (Hungary)	^[58]
Raisa Musina	February 20	Las Vegas Aces	UMMC Ekaterinburg (Russia)	^[59]
Seimone Augustus	February 20	Los Angeles Sparks	Minnesota Lynx	^[60]
Blake Dietrick	February 24	Atlanta Dream	Seattle Storm	^[61]
Marine Johannès		New York Liberty		^[62]
Kia Vaughn		Phoenix Mercury	New York Liberty	^[63]
Epiphanny Prince		Seattle Storm	Las Vegas Aces	^[64]
Courtney Vandersloot	February 25	Chicago Sky		^[65]
Jazmon Gwathmey		Connecticut Sun	San Martino di Lupari (Italy)	^[66]
Sue Bird		Seattle Storm		^[67]
Elīna Dikaioulaku	February 26	Atlanta Dream	Adana (Turkey)	^[68]
Valériane Vukosavljević	February 26	Connecticut Sun	USK Praha (Czech Republic)	^[69]
Chelsea Gray	February 28	Los Angeles Sparks		^[70]
Kang Lee-seul	February 28	Washington Mystics	Bucheon KEB Hana Bank (Korea)	^[71]
Cecilia Zandalasini	February 29	Minnesota Lynx		^[72]
Julie Allemand	March 2	Indiana Fever	Lyon ASVEL (France)	^[73]
Lindsay Allen	March 2	Las Vegas Aces		^[74]
Jacki Gemelos	March 13	Connecticut Sun	Olympiacos (Greece)	^[75]
Megan Huff	March 14	Connecticut Sun	New York Liberty	^[76]
Jessica January	March 19	Indiana Fever	Piešťanské Čajky (Slovakia)	^[77]
Avery Warley-Talbert	March 20	Las Vegas Aces	New York Liberty	^[78]
Sara Blicavs	April 9	Phoenix Mercury	Southside Flyers (Australia)	^[79]
Olivia Époupa	April 9	Phoenix Mercury	Canberra Capitals (Australia)	^[79]
Alaina Coates	April 17	Atlanta Dream		^[80]
Dominique McBryde	April 17	Los Angeles Sparks	Arizona	^[81]
Liz Cambage	April 22	Las Vegas Aces		^[82]

Player	Date Waived	Former Team	Ref
Alexis Jones	February 15	Los Angeles Sparks	^[83]
Rebecca Greenwell	February 28	Washington Mystics	^[71]
Brittany Boyd	April 21	New York Liberty	^[84]
Paris Kea	April 22	Indiana Fever	^[85]
Erica McCall	April 22	Indiana Fever	^[85]
Kaela Davis	April 23	Dallas Wings	^[86]

List of 2020 WNBA season transactions

Front office movements

Head coach changes

Player movement

Trades

Free agency

Waived

Draft

First round

Second round

Third round

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Pick	Player	Date signed	Team	Ref
1	Sabrina Ionescu	April 26	New York Liberty	^[87]
2	Satou Sabally	April 21	Dallas Wings	^[87]
3	Lauren Cox	April 21	Indiana Fever	^[87]
4	Chennedy Carter	April 23	Atlanta Dream	^[87]
5	Bella Alarie	April 20	Dallas Wings	^[87]
6	Mikiah Herbert Harrigan	April 29	Minnesota Lynx	^[87]
7	Tyasha Harris	April 24	Dallas Wings	^[87]
8	Ruthy Hebard	April 28	Chicago Sky	^[87]
9	Megan Walker	April 22	New York Liberty	^[87]
10	Jocelyn Willoughby	April 25	Phoenix Mercury	^[87]
11	Kitija Laksa	April 25	Seattle Storm	^[87]
12	Jazmine Jones	April 22	New York Liberty	^[87]

Pick	Player	Date signed	Team	Ref
13	Kylie Shook	April 24	New York Liberty	^[87]
14	Kathleen Doyle	April 21	Indiana Fever	^[87]
15	Leaonna Odom	April 23	New York Liberty	^[87]
16	Crystal Dangerfield	April 22	Minnesota Lynx	^[87]
17	Brittany Brewer	April 20	Atlanta Dream	^[87]
18	Te'a Cooper	April 29	Phoenix Mercury	^[87]
19	Joyner Holmes	April 22	Seattle Storm	^[87]
20	Beatrice Mompremier	April 26	Los Angeles Sparks	^[87]
21	Luisa Geiselsöder		Dallas Wings	^[87]
22	Leonie Fiebich		Los Angeles Sparks	^[87]
23	Kaila Charles	April 23	Connecticut Sun	^[87]
24	Jaylyn Agnew	April 22	Washington Mystics	^[87]

Pick	Player	Date signed	Team	Ref
25	Mikayla Pivec	April 20	Atlanta Dream	^[87]
26	Erica Ogwumike	April 29	New York Liberty	^[87]
27	Kobi Thornton		Atlanta Dream	^[87]
28	Kamiah Smalls	April 21	Indiana Fever	^[87]
29	Stella Johnson	April 28	Phoenix Mercury	^[87]
30	Japreece Dean	April 24	Chicago Sky	^[87]
31	Haley Gorecki	April 22	Seattle Storm	^[87]
32	Kiah Gillespie	April 25	Chicago Sky	^[87]
33	Lauren Manis	April 27	Las Vegas Aces	^[87]
34	Tynice Martin		Los Angeles Sparks	^[87]
35	Juicy Landrum	April 24	Connecticut Sun	^[87]
36	Sug Sutton	April 22	Washington Mystics	^[87]

v t e 2020 WNBA season by team
Draft Transactions Playoffs Finals
Eastern	Atlanta Dream Chicago Sky Connecticut Sun Indiana Fever New York Liberty Washington Mystics
Western	Dallas Wings Las Vegas Aces Los Angeles Sparks Minnesota Lynx Phoenix Mercury Seattle Storm
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