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When the Indiana Fever added future Hall of Famer DeWanna Bonner to their roster ahead of the 2025 WNBA season, it marked a statement of intent.
Bonner, who recently became the league’s third-leading scorer all-time, was still playing at an extremely high level and it signaled that, along with several new faces, the Fever and Caitlin Clark were ready to chase a championship.
But things quickly went south. New head coach Stephania White, who had previously coached Bonner in Connecticut, didn’t play the star forward as much as she’d hoped.
And Bonner eventually took a leave of absence from the team for what she referred to as “personal reasons.”
“I haven’t had a lot of conversations with [Bonner] recently,” White said, per an X post from Chloe Peterson of IndyStar. “You know, really focused on the team we have right here, and what we need to do to position ourselves to win.”
Shortly after, the two sides cut ties.
“I want to sincerely thank the Indiana Fever for the opportunity to be part of the Fever franchise,” the veteran player said in a news release. “Despite our shared goals and excitement heading into the season, I felt the fit did not work out…”
Bonner later signed for the Phoenix Mercury to play alongside fiancée Alyssa Tomas. The Mercury reached the WNBA Finals, knocking out the Fever along the way, before falling to the Las Vegas Aces.
Indiana Fever Player Lexie Hull Still Isn’t Over DeWanna Bonner’s Betrayal
Understandably, Indiana fans were not very happy with Bonner and the way she left the organization. They relentlessly booed her during the playoff series between the two teams, and Fever player Sophie Cunningham revealed Bonner never reached out to her former teammates after leaving.
Now, it appears that Indiana players are still not over the breakup.
“I was super, super, super excited because finally there’s a [player in my position] that I can look up to that has won in the league and has all these accomplishments and knows what it takes, and I can learn something from her,” Fever forward Lexie Hull said in an interview with Glamour. “And then she randomly leaves, and we’re all just kind of like, ‘What happened?’ We were never given an explanation.
“To have no explanation was really challenging, but I think that helped us grow closer together because we’re like, ‘All right, this is us. We’re here. We’re going to support each other. We’re loving each other. We’re going to fight for each other. We’re not going to leave. We’re in this together.’”
Meanwhile, Thomas is still fully supporting her fiancée.
In a post on X, one fan wrote, “If that lady ever decides to tell her story, it’s a lot of people that’s gonna wish they had shut the f— up.”
To which Thomas replied, simply, “Facts” with a laughing emoji,
At this point, someone just needs to come out and say what happened. Or, at least, what they believe happened. Because until they do, they bickering will continue.