The Dallas Wings have added one other participant to their roster after a busy summer time of free company — guard McKenzie Forbes, who was chosen twenty eighth total by the Los Angeles Sparks final season.
Forbes is an elite three-point shooter whose collegiate profession included stints at UC Berkeley, Harvard, and USC. In her graduate season at USC, Forbes led the staff to a Pac-12 Event championship, scoring 26 factors within the title recreation. That season, she averaged a career-high 14.3 factors, taking pictures 37.4% from three. She additionally averaged a career-high 3.3 assists and three.1 rebounds per recreation.
Although she was drafted, she was finally waived by the Sparks on the finish of coaching camp and has since performed professionally in Australia and New Zealand. She’s at present taking part in in Athletes Limitless, knowledgeable ladies’s basketball going down in Nashville, Tennessee. AU maintains a participant leaderboard and determines a person champion after the five-week season. Forbes at present ranks twenty fifth among the many 40 collaborating gamers.
What McKenzie Forbes brings to the Dallas Wings
For Forbes, the signing is a reunion with two key figures in her previous: Curt Miller, who was the top coach of the Sparks final season and is now the Wings’ common supervisor, and Chris Koclanes. Koclanes is the Wings’ newly-hired head coach and was an assistant for USC final 12 months when Forbes performed a number of the finest basketball of her profession. Koclanes, who labored beneath Miller for 8 years within the WNBA, was Forbes’ place coach at USC.
A coaching camp contract isn’t a assure she may have a spot on the Wings’ roster. However, the 6’0 guard/ahead does get an opportunity to compete for one beneath the management of two people who’re intimately acquainted with her recreation. Forbes has the makings of a doubtlessly stable position participant down the stretch — and he or she’ll get an opportunity to doubtlessly contribute to a revamped roster.
The Wings misplaced a number of key gamers this offseason, headlined by Satou Sabally (commerce) and Natasha Howard (free company). Jacy Sheldon was additionally traded to the Connecticut Solar.
Of their place, the Wings acquired DiJonai Carrington, Ty Harris, and NaLyssa Smith through commerce, and signed Myisha Hines-Allen in free company. In addition they have the No. 1 decide within the 2025 WNBA draft, which they’re broadly anticipated to pick out Paige Buckers with. Franchise participant Arike Ogunbowale is again for one more season. It will likely be an uphill battle for Forbes get a contract, and finally minutes, in Dallas — however it definitely helps that she has Koclanes and Miller working the present.
