Brittney Griner reportedly heading to Connecticut Sun

Star center Brittney Griner is signing a seven-figure deal with the Connecticut Sun, per multiple reports. The move has Griner moving on from the Atlanta Dream after just one season.

Notably, Griner was born and raised in Houston — where the Sun are set to be relocated in the 2027 season after being sold to the Fertitta family last month.

Griner joined Atlanta ahead of last year, signing a one-year deal with the team. She played an average of 20:46 minutes per game while sharing time at center with Brionna Jones. Griner averaged 9.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game across the season.

Griner, a nine-time All-Star, spent the first 11 years of her career with the Phoenix Mercury, earning All-Star nods in nearly every season. (Griner missed the entirety of the 2022 while detained in Russia.) She won a championship with the team in 2014, earning three All-WNBA First Team honors (2014, 2019, 2021) and Defensive Player of the Year twice (2014, 2015).

In Atlanta, though, Griner had less to do in a system that leaned more on possession outside the arc rather than in the paint — Griner’s speciality, given the center’s towering 6’9” height.

Now, the 35-year-old will be a key veteran presence on a very young Connecticut team, especially given that the Sun just lost Marina Mabrey, one of its few vets, to the Toronto Tempo. Of the players under contract, four (Aneesah Morrow, Saniya Rivers, Aaliyah Edwards, Leila Lacan) are under age 24; Diamond Miller, who was just acquired in a trade with the Dallas Wings, is only 25.