However, Charles took a pay cut with Phoenix from what she could have earned elsewhere.
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Plus with Elena Delle Donne, Natasha Cloud, Alysha Clark and Ariel Atkins commanding 55% of the team's cap space, there wasn't much room to add another max-contract player to fill out an 11-player roster. Myisha Hines-Allen was testing the market for the first time as a restricted free agent and more than deserved a significant pay raise. Returning to the Mystics simply wasn't in the cards with the free-agent class Washington was looking to sign and the $180,000 one-year deal she previously had.
She also was the league's leading scorer with 23.4 points per game, the sixth-best mark in the 25 years of the WNBA and the best of her career. She was named to an All-WNBA team for the ninth time in 11 seasons by making the Second Team. In many respects, 2021 was the best individual season of her career. The deal is team-friendly at $108,000 for one season, per Rachel Galligan of Winsidr.Ĭharles showed in 2021 that she is still playing at an elite level. Now, Tina Charles will take herself elsewhere for the 2022 season by signing with the Phoenix Mercury.
It technically spanned two seasons but only saw Elena Delle Donne and Tina Charles play one game together. The days of having two WNBA MVPs on one roster are over for the Washington Mystics. Mystics stopped pursuing Tina Charles, she signs with Mercury originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington
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