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All-Star guard Jackie Young and the Las Vegas Aces are near agreeing on a one-year deal, in accordance with a Thursday report from ESPN. The deal is predicted to be value $1.19 million, the utmost quantity for gamers not eligible for the WNBA’s max contract of $1.4 million.
That quantity would make Young the WNBA’s first million dollar athlete, making in extra of $1 million a 12 months.
The contract retains Young, 28, off the free-agent market. The four-time All-Star averaged 16.5 factors, 5.1 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals a sport for Las Vegas in 2025, serving to the Aces to their third WNBA championship in 4 years.
Young was drafted first general by the Aces in 2019 out of Notre Dame and signed a contract extension with Las Vegas in May of 2024. Young is a four-time All-Star and two-time All-WNBA choice and was named the WNBA’s Most Improved Player in 2022. She has additionally received a pair of Olympic gold medals — with the 3×3 workforce in Tokyo in 2020 and 5-on-5 workforce in Paris in 2024 — and a nationwide championship with Notre Dame in 2018.
With Young presumably assured to return, the Aces will try to retain middle A’ja Wilson, a four-time MVP and two-time Finals MVP who mentioned she needs to come back again to Vegas, and guard Chelsea Gray, a six-time All-Star.
–Field Level Media