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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.

Running counter to what many people figured the Minnesota Lynx would do in Maya Moore‘s absence, Cheryl Reeve instead retooled and put a playoff team on the floor in 2019. But look at her 2020 salary obligations  — full-protection deals with Karima Christmas-Kelly, Damiras Dantas, Sylvia Fowles and OdysseySims, and north of $800,000 already committed to 10 players in total. Now, she has the flexibility of moving on from some of those 2020 contracts, and that number includes Moore, should she return. But it also means the core of a team that won 18 games last year, with a hopefully healthy Christmas-Kelly and Jessica Shepard, will be around, with a year of continuity under its belt. If Moore is a part of that as well, Reeve can tinker at the edges of what is clearly a championship contender on paper. So it was a rebuild of sorts, the Lynx just didn’t miss a beat while it was happening.

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