{"id":579636,"date":"2026-04-12T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579636\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T11:14:10","slug":"sky-acquire-jacy-sheldon-from-mystics-for-1st-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579636\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky acquire Jacy Sheldon from Mystics for 1st-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Sky acquired guard Jacy Sheldon from the Washington Mystics on \u200bSaturday in exchange \u200cfor a 2028 first-round draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon, 25, has averaged 6.3 points, 2.2 assists, and 2.0 \u200crebounds \u200bin 70 \u2060career games (43 starts) \u2060with the Dallas Wings (2024), Connecticut Sun (2025) and Mystics (2025).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacy made an impression on us \u200bwith her toughness, competitiveness and ability to compete \u2060on both ends \u2060of the court,\u201d \u200bSky general manager Jeff Pagliocca \u200bsaid. \u201cShe has proven to be \u200ca great young player who can shoot the ball and defend in this \u2060league. Jacy fits what we are looking for seamlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon was the \u2060No. \u200c5 overall pick \u2060in the 2024 \u200bWNBA \u200cDraft by Dallas out \u200bof Ohio \u2060State.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago opens the 2026 regular season on May 9th on the road against the expansion Portland Fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Sky acquired guard Jacy Sheldon from the Washington Mystics on \u200bSaturday in exchange \u200cfor a 2028&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-579636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579636","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=579636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}