Dallas’ Wings are having a tough time this season, languishing at the bottom of the WNBA rankings with a disappointing record of 1-11. They’ve already lost two players to Eurobasket—Luisa Geiselsöder and Teira McCowan—and have given up on Kaila Charles. Just last week, Ty Harris was ruled out for the rest of the season. I did manage to bring in another player through a trade involving Li Yueru, but now I’m faced with yet another loss.
On Monday, the Wings announced that Maddy Siegrist, a third-year player drafted No. 3 overall in 2023, has suffered an anterolateral tibial plateau fracture in her right knee. This is an injury at the top of the tibia, where it connects to the knee joint, which can also affect the meniscus and joint cartilage.
Fortunately, Siegrist won’t require surgery to address the injury, but her recovery period is uncertain. Experts online estimate she could be sidelined for six to eight weeks. This timing might push her return to the end of the regular season, but there’s a chance that depending on her recovery and conditioning, she may not make it back before Dallas concludes its 2025 campaign.
This latest setback adds to a string of difficulties for the Wings this year. The excitement of securing the No. 1 draft pick and selecting Page Bookers has been overshadowed by a lack of team cohesion and injuries, even before Harris’s announcement about his season-ending injury. Losing players to Eurobasket has made things even more challenging for Dallas.
To make matters worse, head coach Chris Cochran, who is in his first head coaching role, seems to struggle with maintaining control of the locker room—a dynamic that appeared to be forming during training camp. There are several recorded incidents where he seems to be in disagreement with players during games, which might be contributing to the team’s issues.
One person even shared a moment from the end of a game where Dihony Carrington didn’t seem to agree with Cochran, hinting at more underlying tension. It’s hard to say exactly what was happening, but it definitely caught attention.
Currently, this Wings team feels like a ticking time bomb, and several longtime players seem to be struggling to find their footing. With a 44-game season and only 12 games played so far, it looks grim for Dallas to turn things around. Thankfully, they’re not in a situation like Chicago, where they don’t control their draft picks, but I doubt they anticipated being in a position of 1-11.
They might have some capacity now to secure another player under a hardship agreement to fill in for Siegrist during her recovery, though it could be too late to find someone who can genuinely help this dire situation.
