{"id":833191,"date":"2026-09-01T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833191\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T16:08:10","slug":"skylar-diggins-out-for-remainder-of-skys-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833191\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylar Diggins out for remainder of Sky’s 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

No surprise here: Skylar Diggins is out for the remainder of the 2026 season, the Sky<\/a> announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Sky were eliminated from the playoffs and have only four games remaining, leaving little incentive for the veteran guard to return.<\/p>\n

The Sky\u2019s statement said that they want to \u201cprioritize Skylar\u2019s long-term health after collaboration and communication with Skylar and her team, Sky doctors, and the organization\u2019s medical staff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diggins had not played since early July, when she posted on Instagram about being moved to the bench. Coach Tyler Marsh described it as a \u201ccoach\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diggins expressed disappointment<\/a> about the communication and resources from the organization, and said then that she had been playing through knee pain resulting from a procedure in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been sacrificing my body for this team,\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe it\u2019s time to take a step back and see what\u2019s going on to see if I need to continue to make those sacrifices without having the proper resources to play at an elite level.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diggins has been rehabbing the injury ever since. She also said more recently that she\u2019d had productive conversations with Marsh and wanted to contribute to winning basketball.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in full support of Skylar and want to make sure we are steadfastly prioritizing her health,\u201d general manager Jeff Pagliocca said. \u201cSkylar made a strong effort to get back to the court this season. She\u2019s been in constant communication with us through the entire process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diggins is signed to an $1.86 million deal through 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No surprise here: Skylar Diggins is out for the remainder of the 2026 season, the Sky announced Tuesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-833191","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\/833191","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=833191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}