“Being a WNBA player is one of the hardest jobs in America to GET and even harder to KEEP,” De Shields wrote in 2019, and that will be a sour reminder for her after she was surprisingly waived by the ...

Former Lady Vols basketball star Diamond DeShields has been waived by the Connecticut Sun, the organization announced May 15. DeShields was the Sun's last roster cut to finalize the roster for the ...

May 15 - The Connecticut Sun waived former All-Star and WNBA champion Diamond DeShields on Thursday. The regular season tips off Friday, with the Sun opening at home against the Washington Mystics on ...

Amid an era of unprecedented growth for the WNBA and women’s basketball, the Connecticut Sun have struggled to keep up in the increasingly competitive battle for free agents. Based in the smallest ...