{"id":60918,"date":"2025-08-05T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60918\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:50:07","slug":"former-syracuse-wnba-basketball-star-brittney-sykes-is-traded-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/60918\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Syracuse, WNBA basketball star Brittney Sykes is traded (report)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YGOCZDBOSRBZBNHRBUX63YSVBM\">Former Syracuse women\u2019s basketball star Brittney Sykes is being traded from the Washington Mystics to the Seattle Storm, ESPN\u2019s Alex Philippou reported Tuesday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WJPKK65I6FGMVAXWXFLKHZTJIM\">Sykes, one of the all-time SU greats, was a late add to the WNBA all-star team after injuries to Caitlin Clark and Satou Sabally. It was her first appearance in the All-Star game. She is having the best season in her WNBA career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YIJ752MPVNBVFCCW7D6VA66OAA\">Sykes, 31, was in her third season with the Mystics. The 5-foot-9 guard, known for her defensive tenacity, was Washington\u2019s leading scorer this season. She\u2019s averaging 15.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.2 steals per game. The assists and steals are also Washington team highs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LQPGVMGCQBFWJISJWH2MS7BZ3E\">She is leaving a Mystics team currently 9th in the WNBA standings and heading to 6th-place Seattle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E6FOUOLZIJD67D6UL7FBNZ3UY4\">Sykes survived two knee surgeries during her career at SU and still thrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VWBP5LVLW5GIFD2CZ5EUUDMCYE\">She scored 1,846 career points and made 137 starts with the Orange.<\/p>\n<p>If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Syracuse women\u2019s basketball star Brittney Sykes is being traded from the Washington Mystics to the Seattle Storm,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-60918","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\/60918","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=60918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}