High Post Hoops WNBA salary database: November 2019 update

NEW YORK - JULY 11: Tamika Catchings, Swin Cash, Deanna Nolan, Katie Smith, Nikki Teasley, Dawn Staley, Tamecka Dixon and Sue Bird poses with the check for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation at the 2003 WNBA All-Star Skills Competition on July 11, 2003 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/WNBAE via Getty Images)
NEW YORK - JULY 11: Tamika Catchings, Swin Cash, Deanna Nolan, Katie Smith, Nikki Teasley, Dawn Staley, Tamecka Dixon and Sue Bird poses with the check for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation at the 2003 WNBA All-Star Skills Competition on July 11, 2003 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/WNBAE via Getty Images)
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Team salaries as of November 1, 2019.
Team salaries as of November 1, 2019.

Curt Miller spoke for the better part of three years of how 2019 was his target season with this Connecticut Sun roster, and only part of that came from how long he expected it to mature. The other half of that calculation came from a series of decisions he’ll now have to make following the team’s enormously successful run to the WNBA Finals. He’s going to start the offseason with Alyssa Thomas, Jasmine Thomas and Theresa Plaisance all under contract with full guarantees in 2020 — the third of those deals complicating both the money and the guarantee (teams can only guarantee six). That means a number of critical Sun players — their top two scorers from last year, Jonquel Jones and Courtney Williams, along with starter Shekinna Stricklen, former lottery picks Morgan Tuck and Rachel Banham, and vital bench cog Bria Holmes — are all unsigned. Even backup point guards Natisha Hiedeman (not on rookie scale since she was signed in-season) and Layshia Clarendon (likely to draw starter interest elsewhere this offseason) are all free as well. Replicating 2019’s roster is going to take some creativity.