{"id":18826,"date":"2025-07-26T07:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dewanna-bonner-return-to-phoenix-without-regrets-after-wnba-journey\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:21:10","slug":"dewanna-bonner-return-to-phoenix-without-regrets-after-wnba-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/dewanna-bonner-return-to-phoenix-without-regrets-after-wnba-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWanna Bonner: Return to Phoenix without regrets after WNBA journey"},"content":{"rendered":"New York<\/strong> – DeWanna Bonner is happy to be back in Phoenix, where she started her professional career.\n\nThe veteran player spent her first ten years with the Mercury before joining the Connecticut Sun for five seasons, and then had a brief stint with the Indiana Fever at the beginning of the 2025 season. After this experience, she signed with Phoenix earlier this month.\n\n

I wouldn’t change anything. My path is my path and I accept it. It has brought me to where I am now, in Phoenix, and it happened that way for a reason.<\/p>DeWanna Bonner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe 37-year-old forward focuses on her future with Phoenix, putting aside the past or what could have gone wrong in Indiana, which ended with her departure from the team.\n\nShe found the rumor that she was unhappy about coming off the bench funny, after having been a starter in the first games with the Fever. In the first game, she rose to third place on the WNBA’s all-time scoring list.\n\n

That was never the problem. I’ve never been like that. I have no problem coming off the bench. I’ve never been that player. I don’t feel like I have that reputation.<\/p>DeWanna Bonner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPhoenix began a five-game road trip in New York on Friday night, where they lost 89-76. Bonner scored nine points.\n\n

DB is a great addition for us. She can play in positions 2, 3 and 4, and even in the 5, depending on the different lineups we will use in the future. She has won championships. In her second game with us, we went to Golden State, we had some injuries and she scored 22 points and 11 rebounds. We wouldn’t win that game without her, so she has been a great addition for us.<\/p>Nate Tibbetts, Phoenix Coach<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe Mercury will head to Indiana on Wednesday, and Bonner said she wasn’t sure what the fans’ reaction would be.\n\n

I’m just going to go out and do my job. They have every right to do what they want. I’m just going to go out and compete with my team.<\/p>DeWanna Bonner<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nNot everything was bad in Indiana for Bonner, as he was only a four-hour drive from his twin daughters, who will soon turn 8 years old.\n\nBonner hopes to lead the Mercury to another championship. She helped the franchise win two after being selected fifth overall by the team in 2009.\n\nReturning to Phoenix after so long, the love and welcome I received were very necessary and appreciated. Returning with people I know.\n\nThe biggest change he’s seen since he left has been in the building where the team plays.\n\n

I entered the stadium on the day of the match and had no idea where I was, and it was crazy because I was there for 10 years every day. Everything is different, but the fans are still the same, a couple of people in the office too.<\/p>DeWanna Bonner<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York – DeWanna Bonner is happy to be back in Phoenix, where she started her professional career. The veteran player spent her first ten years with the Mercury before joining the Connecticut Sun for five seasons, and then had a brief stint with the Indiana Fever at the beginning of the 2025 season. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[389,4707,2459,382],"class_list":{"0":"post-18826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dewanna-bonner","10":"tag-phoenix-mercury","11":"tag-wnba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}