The harm bug has bitten the Washington Mystics at coaching camp, and arduous. In the future after saying that Georgia Amoore, the No. 6 decide within the 2025 WNBA Draft, suffered a left ACL harm, the workforce shared that Aaliyah Edwards can even be sidelined.
Edwards, the No. 6 decide within the 2024 WNBA Draft, has been identified with a decrease again contusion, per the Mystics. The workforce introduced she’ll be re-evaluated in two weeks.
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Edwards had a stable rookie season with the Mystics, averaging 7.6 factors and 5.6 rebounds. She adopted that with a robust Unequalled season, wherein she was the 1-on-1 event runner-up, falling to Napheesa Collier in three video games.
This 12 months, whereas the Mystics proceed their rebuild, Edwards is slated to make one other leap.
The Mystics’ opening common season sport is slated for Friday, Might sixteenth. Relying on how her restoration goes, the 22-year-old may miss that opener.
The Washington Mystics have already misplaced two younger gamers to harm
It’s been an injury-riddled first couple of days of coaching camp. Along with Amoore and Edwards, the Las Vegas Aces introduced that ahead Megan Gustafson is out indefinitely with a decrease leg harm.
Amoore’s harm seems most critical — and marks the newest ACL harm suffered by a high-profile ladies’s basketball participant. USC’s JuJu Watkins and Seattle Storm gamers Nika Muhl and Jordan Horston each tore their ACLs within the WNBA offseason; Muhl was taking part in abroad, whereas Horston was taking part in in Athletes Limitless.
If Edwards is sidelined for longer, different younger Mystics gamers may get a possibility. Kiki Iriafen, the Mystics’ No. 4 decide, may see some early-season minutes on the ahead spot. And, Amoore’s sidelining places extra of the load on fellow first-round decide Sonia Citron, whereas probably creating a possibility for second-round draft decide Lucy Olsen to make the roster.
