Veteran WNBA forward DeWanna Bonner is returning to Phoenix.
The Mercury have announced they’ve agreed to terms with the six-time All-Star, who spent the first 10 seasons of her career in the Valley of the Sun and won a pair of WNBA titles there.
Bonner, 37, signed a one-year contract this past offseason with the Indiana Fever, but she lost her starting job and quickly fell out of the team’s regular rotation. She missed two weeks in June due to ‘personal reasons’ and was released by the Fever on June 25 after the team was unable to trade her.
“We couldn’t be more excited to have DeWanna back in a Mercury uniform,” Mercury GM Nick U’Ren said in a statement. “She is a true winner, leader and one of the most talented and versatile players in our game.’
In Phoenix, Bonner will join a team with the league’s second-best record at 13-6. She will also reunite with her fiancée, forward Alyssa Thomas, with whom she played the past five seasons on the Connecticut Sun.