When Leilani Mitchell signed with the Washington Mystics last February, she was joining a team fresh-off the WNBA title, with one of the strongest groups of players in the league, not to mention managed by the winningest coach in WNBA history. It also didn’t hurt that she also had a previous stint with Washington in 2015.
At 35-years-old, and a two-time winner of the Most Improved Player award, Mitchell assumed her role was going to be commanding the point for the second unit. Instead, she started all of the Mystics’ 22 games in their Florida bubble.