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DeWanna Bonner made me eat my words. The 37-year-old WNBA veteran is not the washed-up has-been I made her out to be when she joined the Phoenix Mercury after a failed stint wit the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n
I am willing to admit that I was wrong but I am not willing to go any further.<\/p>\n
Bonner was drafted into the WNBA<\/a> with the No. 5 overall pick in 2009. She spent a full decade with the Phoenix Mercury, five years with the Connecticut Sun and nine games with the Fever. The six-time All-Star and two-time league champion joined Indiana during the offseason as an important role player off of the bench, good for about 20 minutes per game. Things did not go according to plan.<\/p>\n It was ugly.<\/p>\n Not only did DeWanna Bonner<\/a> shoot a disappointing 19-of-55 (34%) from the field over that nine-game stretch, she suddenly abandoned her team right in the middle of the regular season<\/a>. Nobody knew what exactly was going on behind the scenes<\/a>. Neither side offered any additional clarity on the situation.<\/p>\n And then she was gone.<\/p>\n DeWanna Bonner bailed on the Fever.<\/p>\n Bonner left the team to sign with the Mercury and to play alongside her fianc\u00e9e, Alyssa Thoma<\/a>s. And in that moment, I wrote the following headline: Phoenix Mercury Cut Rookie Player So Washed-Up Quitter Can Finish Career Alongside Fianc\u00e9e<\/a>. Vicious!<\/p>\n I stand by some of what I said. It was unfortunate to see a young player lose her job in such a manner. DeWanna Bonner looked completely washed-up during the first nine games of the season. I still don\u2019t think she is the player she once was.<\/p>\n She proved the haters wrong.<\/p>\n