{"id":58282,"date":"2025-08-04T18:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:37:10","slug":"the-ringer-pitches-arike-ogunbowale-jewell-loyd-trade-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58282\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ringer pitches Arike Ogunbowale-Jewell Loyd trade swap"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the August 7 WNBA trade deadline<\/a> fast approaching, Dallas Wings<\/a> guard Arike Ogunbowale<\/a> is the most high-profile name that might move \u2014 at least that we know of. A blockbuster deal that would send her to the Las Vegas Aces<\/a> in exchange for Jewell Loyd<\/a>, however, seems far-fetched. Or is it?<\/p>\n

The Ringer’s Seerat Sohi proposed such a deal<\/a>, and the mechanics of it make a lot of sense. For one thing, the two All-Star guards have the exact same salary, saving both the Wings and Aces from any salary cap gymnastics. More importantly, Sohi argues that each player might just fit better on the other team.<\/p>\n

\u201cOgunbowale would certainly be a more natural fit with the Aces offense, which relies heavily on guard creation and pick-and-rolls with [A’ja] Wilson,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt would also be fascinating to see how dangerous Ogunbowale could be as the de facto no. 2 scoring option, surrounded by threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that Ogunbowale’s \u201cis0-heavy style\u201d clashed with rookie Paige Bueckers’ style, which led to a dip in the veteran guard’s numbers until recently.<\/p>\n

Her re-emergence has made the Wings’ decision<\/a> to trade her a little more difficult \u2014 even if the Aces throw in a few second-round draft picks to sweeten the pot.<\/p>\n

Jewell Loyd could move at the WNBA trade deadline\"LasCandice Ward-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Similar to Ogunbowale, Loyd struggled to fit in with the Aces earlier in the year. As Sohi writes, \u201cshe was relegated to a role as a spot-up shooter since being traded to the Aces during the offseason. Since asking to come off the bench, though, the Gold Mamba has looked a lot more like her zippy, tough-shot-making self<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

That aligns much more with what Bueckers brings to the table in Dallas.<\/p>\n

Further complicating matters, Loyd appears happy in her first season in Las Vegas. Even after the Aces’ historic blowout loss to the Minnesota Lynx<\/a>, she spoke glowingly of the Vegas locker room.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis locker room is so close,\u201d she said. \u201cThe confidence level for each player, day in and day out, is there. That\u2019s the beautiful part. There\u2019s no drama. You can have a season like this and it can be a terrible one, terrible teammates. That\u2019s not the case here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Russell Steinberg<\/a> covers Major League Baseball and the New York Liberty for ClutchPoints. A baseball and basketball lifer, he has written for Boardroom, SLAM, SB Nation, The Next, and more. He graduated from NYU in 2012 and still returns to serve as PA announcer and occasional broadcaster for the school\u2019s basketball and volleyball teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the August 7 WNBA trade deadline fast approaching, Dallas Wings guard Arike Ogunbowale is the most high-profile…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2832,2834,649,4677,99,434,43882,43883],"class_list":{"0":"post-58282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-arike-ogunbowale","9":"tag-dallas-wings","10":"tag-jewell-loyd","11":"tag-las-vegas-aces","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wnba","14":"tag-wnba-rumors","15":"tag-wnba-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282","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=58282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}