Damiris Dantas plays for the Indiana Fever, but is currently with Turkey’s Botas SK during the WNBA offseason.
\nShe recently shared her personal struggles: \u201cYou can\u2019t be strong all the time\u2026and that\u2019s okay.\u201d
\nDantas becomes a WNBA free agent after her contract ends following the 2025 season.<\/p>\n
Damiris Dantas recently completed her second season with the Indiana Fever. The 6-foot-4 center-forward came off the bench for head coach Stephanie White, averaging 4.6 points and 2.4 rebounds in 11.6 minutes per contest. Dantas was no star, but she played a significant role as part of the Fever\u2019s rotation in the regular season.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old veteran recently left the United States for the WNBA offseason. She signed with Turkish side Botas SK, which plays in the Turkish Women\u2019s Basketball Super League. Dantas was a dominant force in their last game, dropping a 28-point, 10-rebound double-double in their 113-104 overtime loss to Nesibe Aydin on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Damiris Dantas plays for the Indiana Fever, but is currently with Turkey’s Botas SK during the WNBA offseason.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-255776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}