Atlanta Dream News

On Friday  (January 15) the Atlanta Dream announced teams are able to begin negotiating with unrestricted free agents, restricted free agents, reserved players, suspended-contract expired players, and cored free agents, as well as rookie scale extensions.

 

Prior to Friday , the Dream extended qualifying offers to all reserved players and restricted free agents listed below.

 

Beginning February 1, teams and players can finalize deals and sign contracts and offer sheets.

 

Reserved Players – Players with three or fewer years of service can receive Qualifying Offers to become Reserved Players. The player’s prior team has exclusive negotiating rights.

1.       Jaylyn Agnew

Restricted Free Agents – Players with four years of service can receive Qualifying Offers to become Restricted Free Agents. Restricted free agency gives the player’s prior team the right to sign the player by matching a contract offer from another team (Right of First Refusal). If the player signs an Offer Sheet with another team, the player’s prior team has four days from the date it receives the Offer Sheet to determine whether it wishes to match. If the offer is matched, the player will remain with her prior team. If the offer is not matched within the four-day period, the player will be under contract with the offering team.

1.       Kaela Davis

2.       Blake Dietrick

 

Unrestricted Free Agents – Players with fewer than five years of service who do not receive Qualifying Offers become unrestricted free agents. An unrestricted free agent is free to sign with any team provided that she is not designated as a Core Player by her prior team.

1.       Glory Johnson

2.       Betnijah Laney

 

Players Under Contract – Players who are not free agents in 2021 and remain on the Dream’s roster.

1.       Monique Billings

2.       Brittany Brewer

3.       Kalani Brown

4.       Chennedy Carter

5.       Maite Cazorla

6.       Tiffany Hayes

7.       Mikayla Pivec

8.       Shekinna Stricklen

9.       Courtney Williams

10.   Elizabeth Williams

 

Expired Contracts – Players who opted out or were suspended for the final season of their contract. Players with expired contracts are free to negotiate contracts with their own team but they may not negotiated with any other WNBA teams.

1.       Renee Montgomery

 

Rights Owned by Atlanta

1.       Mengran Sun (China)

2.       Kobi Thornton (USA)

3.       Kristy Wallace (Australia)

4.       Li Yueru (China)

 

To see a full list of WNBA free agents, check out the league’s official page here.