This move reshapes the guard landscape around the league - which will have a significant impact on veteran free agent Courtney Vandersloot. Vandersloot is a five-time WNBA All-Star and two time champion who starred for the Gonzaga Bulldogs from 2008-2011.

Courtney Vandersloot is heading back to the Chicago Sky for her 15th season in the WNBA. Vandersloot, coming off winning a championship with the New York Liberty, the second of her career, did not wait to announce the decision as she subtly dropped the news in only a way she could on Wednesday.

According to multiple sources out of Unrivaled, the Sky's All-Time assist leader is expected to make her return to the franchise that drafted her with the third overall pick in the 2011 WNBA draft.

With 36 of the greatest women’s basketball players assembled in Miami for Unrivaled’s inaugural season, no fan would be wrong in choosing a favorite.

Courtney Vandersloot will participate in the inaugural season for the Unrivaled League following a successful 2024 season which she won a WNBA title.

According to multiple league sources, a reunion between the Sky and their All-Time assist leader is being strongly considered.

It wasn’t goodbye for the Chicago Sky. Two years after departing her longtime team in free agency, two-time WNBA champion Courtney Vandersloot is returning to the franchise for the 2025 season. Vandersloot,

Courtney Vandersloot, who spent her first 12 WNBA seasons in Chicago before playing two years for the New York Liberty, is set to rejoin the Sky.

Courtney Vandersloot, a former multi-time all-star and WNBA champion with the Chicago Sky, is expected to return to the franchise, according to the Chicago Sun-Times’ Annie

Vandersloot is an unrestricted free agent after playing the last two seasons with the New York Liberty, helping them win the 2024 WNBA championship. Prior to her run with the New York franchise, she spent 12 seasons with the Sky after being drafted third overall in 2011.

Although Sloot has only been gone two seasons, she returns to a new look Sky roster led by young star Angel Reese, who averaged 13.6 points and 13.1 rebounds per game as a rookie last year - finishing second in Rookie of the Year voting to Caitlin Clark.