Veteran guard Dana Evans was an important depth piece for the Las Vegas Aces in their run to the 2025 WNBA Finals, where the Aces won their third championship in four years.
Last Monday, the Aces announced they’d re-signed Evans. The Aces retained its entire core — A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young, Jewell Loyd — in an effort to make it four rings in five years.
Evans will likely provide a spark off the bench again in 2026, but she might be benched for the early part of the WNBA season.
On Sunday, the Aces announced that Evans will be “sidelined indefinitely while rehabilitating a left leg injury.”
Las Vegas did not provide any specifics beyond that, but the assumption is that it’s the same “left lower extremity injury” that kept Evans out of the Unrivaled playoffs in March.
Regardless, Evans isn’t worried.
“Hey y’all, I’m okayyyy just rehabbing & doing everything I can to get back on the court,” Evans posted on X on Sunday night. “I’ll be fine.”
Evans was a second-round pick of the Dallas Wings in the 2021 WNBA Draft, but she was traded to the Chicago Sky by June 2021. It was serendipitous timing for Evans, as she was part of the 16-16 Sky team that shocked the WNBA by winning the 2021 WNBA Finals.
Evans played in Chicago from 2021 to 2024 before signing with the Aces in February 2025. Last season, Evans appeared in 44 games (1 start) for Las Vegas and averaged 6.6 points and 2.2 assists in 17.7 minutes per game.
The Aces will begin their title defense against the Phoenix Mercury, whom they swept to win the 2025 WNBA Finals, on Saturday, May 9.