{"id":580682,"date":"2026-04-13T00:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:35:11","slug":"dewanna-bonner-re-signs-with-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580682\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWanna Bonner re-signs with Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeWanna Bonner is headed back to the Phoenix Mercury for her 17th WNBA season, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhoenixMercury\/status\/2043467347865096333?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bonner was drafted fifth overall by the Mercury in 2009 and played her first 10 seasons in Phoenix before she was traded to the Connecticut Sun for three first-round picks in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Following five years in Connecticut and a brief stop with the Indiana Fever to begin the 2025 season, the 38-year-old signed with Phoenix as a free agent on July 8.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time WNBA All-Star (2015, 2018-19, 2021, 2023-24), and two-time WNBA champion (2009, 2014) averaged 10.9 points and 4.3 rebounds in 24 games (one start) with the Mercury last season.<\/p>\n<p>She led all WNBA reserves in points (10.6) and steals (0.9) per game (minimum 25 games played).<\/p>\n<p>Bonner ranks second in games played (359) and third in points (5,081), rebounds (2,175), assists (729) and blocks (244) in Mercury franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, the Mercury officially announced the\u00a0signings of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/alyssa-thomas-2026\/3617430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alyssa Thomas<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/kahleah-copper-sign\/3617662\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kahleah Copper<\/a>. Sami Whitcomb also<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/wnba\/phoenix-mercury\/sami-whitcomb-signs\/3617668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> reportedly re-signed with Phoenix<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury further signed Ashten Prechtel, Aisha Sheppard, Kianna Williams, Lauren Jensen, Morgan Maly and Kyara Linskens to training camp deals, Quionche Carter to a rookie-scale contract and Valeriane Ayayi to a deal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Training camp contracts do not count towards the salary cap unless the player makes the opening night roster.<\/p>\n<p>Training camp begins on April 19, and the Mercury open the preseason on April 25 vs. the Sky. Phoenix will begin the regular season on May 9 with a WNBA Finals rematch at the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/veenstra_david\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @veenstra_david<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeWanna Bonner is headed back to the Phoenix Mercury for her 17th WNBA season, the team announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-580682","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\/580682","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=580682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}