May 1, 2025
Locked On Women’s Basketball: Injury trends in the WNBA
By The Next
Chelsea Leite and Jackie Powell discuss offseason injuries and a team's responsibility to help prevent them
It’s time for another episode of Locked on Women’s Basketball, and host Chelsea Leite is talking with Jackie Powell about injuries across the WNBA. The conversation begins with Georgia Amoore, the Washington Mystics’ rookie guard, who will miss the upcoming season after sustaining an ACL injury in practice.
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Amoore is one of at least four players expected to miss time with a knee injury this season, joining Seattle’s Jordan Horston, New York’s Betnijah Laney-Hamilton and Seattle’s Nika Muhl. All are referenced on Lucas Seehafer’s WNBA Injury Tracker, which they showed on screen. New York’s Breanna Stewart also recently had a minor scope on her right meniscus in the offseason.
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His chart, as Powell points out, shows that the Mystics paced the league with 56 injuries across the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Phoenix came in second.
“Luck is definitely a part of it. Anatomy is definitely a part of it. But if you own a women’s sports team, you need to be making sure that you have the ability to take care of these female athletes with whatever they need, whatever their needs are, whether it’s, you know this, this research comes out and it says you need to change their nutrition,” Leite said.
“You need to change how they practice. You need to, you know, adapt their training schedule to menstrual cycles, etc, etc, etc. You need to be prepared to put the money into that. I think we’re definitely about to see, I think the next phase of this boost of women’s sports, I think, is going to be a boost of health, a boost of women’s health in sports.”
As we get closer to the start of the WNBA season, stay tuned for team previews, features and other updates out of training camp.
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