Brionna Jones will play for a new WNBA team for the first time in her career when the 2025 season begins.
The three-time All-Star plans to sign with the Atlanta Dreams, Jones’ agent Boris Lelchitski told ESPN’s Alexa Philippou.
Jones — the 2021 Most Improved Player and 2022 Sixth Player of the Year — spent her first eight seasons with the Connecticut Sun after being drafted by the team eighth overall during the 2017 WNBA Draft.
After missing most of 2023 due to a ruptured Achilles, Jones averaged 13.7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game in 2024. She played a pivotal for Connecticut in helping the team reach six straight stops in the WNBA semifinals.
The move marked the Dream’s second big acquisition this offseason after they signed 10-time All-Star Brittney Griner to a one-year deal after 11 seasons in Phoenix.
The news of Jones departing Connecticut comes a day after the Sun traded five-time All-Star Alyssa Thomas to the Mercury. Like Jones, Thomas also spent her entire career with the Sun.
The Sun have some big holes to fill with the losses of Jones and Thomas.
