The 33-year-old veteran guard has averaged 11.4 factors in 7 video games with the Indiana Fever. Thus, on Sunday, it was no shock that the Fever introduced they’d signed Sims to a rest-of-season contract.
In her final two video games, Sims has discovered an simple offensive rhythm; in a win over the Seattle Storm final Tuesday, she exploded for 22 factors (8-14 FG) and 6 assists.
Then, on Friday, she tallied 21 factors (10-20 FG), 6 rebounds, and three assists in a important victory over the Los Angeles Sparks — the identical Sparks group that waived her final month and is at present preventing for a playoff spot.
And, Sims — who has had an up-and-down couple of seasons on momentary contracts — lastly has much-deserved job safety for the rest of the season. Since 2022, Sims has been waived by the Minnesota Lynx, Dallas Wings, and Sparks. She’s performed on hardship contracts, she’s discovered herselves exterior of the league altogether, and now she finds herself a beginning guard on essentially the most watched girls’s basketball group on the earth.
After accidents to McDonald and Colson, Sims signed a brief contract with the Fever in early August. One seven-day contract grew to become three, and shortly sufficient, Sims signed a rest-of-season alternative, and is well-positioned to play a vital function come playoff time.
“Simply going off the final two years, simply up and down within the league, out the league, hardship contract, being lower, all that stuff doesn’t actually matter,” Sims mentioned after Friday’s win, per the Indy Star. “I believe I’m the definition of you keep prepared so that you don’t must prepare — take each alternative that has been given to me. I’m taking full benefit of it. These are the alternatives you could’t let slip away.”
At 21-18, the Fever have the league’s sixth-best file. If the playoffs have been to start in the present day, they’d face the Atlanta Dream, and Sims can be one of many group’s starters, offered Clark stays sidelined. Contemplating only a few weeks in the past she was (as soon as once more) out of the WNBA, that’s a fairly outstanding place to be.
