{"id":123339,"date":"2025-08-31T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/123339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:14:19","slug":"the-fevers-latest-signing-could-be-one-of-their-best-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/123339\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fever\u2019s latest signing could be one of their best yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Odyssey Sims<\/a> has been thriving in Indiana.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old veteran guard has averaged 11.4 points in 7 games with the Indiana Fever<\/a>. Thus, on Sunday, it was no surprise that the Fever announced they\u2019d signed Sims to a rest-of-season contract.<\/p>\n

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In her last two games, Sims has found an undeniable offensive rhythm; in a win over the Seattle Storm<\/a> last Tuesday, she exploded for 22 points (8-14 FG) and 6 assists.<\/p>\n

Then, on Friday, she tallied 21 points (10-20 FG), 6 rebounds, and 3 assists in a critical victory over the Los Angeles Sparks<\/a> \u2014 the same Sparks team that waived her last month and is currently fighting for a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

In turn, the Fever remain alive despite season-ending injuries to Aari McDonald<\/a>, Sophie Cunningham<\/a>, and Sydney Colson<\/a> \u2014 as well as Caitlin Clark<\/a> remaining out with a groin injury that\u2019s sidelined her most of the season.<\/p>\n

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And, Sims \u2014 who has had an up-and-down couple of seasons on temporary contracts \u2014 finally has much-deserved job security for the remainder of the season. Since 2022, Sims has been waived by the Minnesota Lynx<\/a>, Dallas Wings<\/a>, and Sparks. She\u2019s played on hardship contracts, she\u2019s found herselves outside of the league altogether, and now she finds herself a starting guard on the most watched women\u2019s basketball team in the world.<\/p>\n

After injuries to McDonald and Colson, Sims signed a temporary contract with the Fever in early August. One seven-day contract became three, and soon enough, Sims signed a rest-of-season opportunity, and is well-positioned to play a crucial role come playoff time.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust going off the last two years, just up and down in the league, out the league, hardship contract, being cut, all that stuff doesn\u2019t really matter,\u201d Sims said after Friday\u2019s win, per the Indy Star. \u201cI think I\u2019m the definition of you stay ready so you don\u2019t have to get ready \u2014 take every opportunity that has been given to me. I\u2019m taking full advantage of it. These are the opportunities that you can\u2019t let slip away.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 21-18, the Fever have the league\u2019s sixth-best record. If the playoffs were to begin today, they\u2019d face the Atlanta Dream<\/a>, and Sims would be one of the team\u2019s starters, provided Clark remains sidelined. Considering just a few weeks ago she was (once again) out of the WNBA, that\u2019s a pretty remarkable place to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Odyssey Sims has been thriving in Indiana. The 33-year-old veteran guard has averaged 11.4 points in 7 games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[5624,3444,1760,2834,2652,2839,3029,1077,9217,4676,4805,99,9218,434],"class_list":["post-123339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aari-mcdonald","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-dallas-wings","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-odyssey-sims","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sophie-cunningham","tag-sports","tag-sydney-colson","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}