For the Indiana Fever, Sunday’s season opener at Seattle is the start of a new era.
The Fever have a new coach in Pokey Chatman and will be without Tamika Catchings for the first time since 2001.
Catchings, the second-leading scorer and top rebounder in WNBA history, retired after last season and joined the organization’s front office. That led the Fever to make an offseason trade for five-time All-Star Candice Dupree.
“Every year, I want to win,” Fever president and general manager Kelly Krauskopf told the Indianapolis Star. “So you can’t fill your roster with all 35-year-olds, and you can’t fill it with all 23-year-olds.