{"id":127281,"date":"2025-06-26T22:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127281\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T22:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:01:11","slug":"wnba-team-releases-tj-mcconnells-sister-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/127281\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Team Releases TJ McConnell\u2019s Sister on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

WNBA Team Releases TJ McConnell\u2019s Sister on Thursday<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the Indiana Pacers won Game 6 of the NBA Finals, Tim McConnell spoke to NBA TV<\/a> about his pride in seeing both of his children play professional basketball at the highest level.<\/p>\n

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Tim’s son, TJ, was a vital piece off the bench amid the Pacers’ spectacular run to the Finals. His daughter, Megan, was a rookie with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, undrafted this year following a strong college career at Duquesne.<\/p>\n

But things have changed quickly for the McConnells. Amid an Achilles injury to star player Tyrese Haliburton, the Pacers lost Game 7 of the Finals to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday. And on Thursday, the Mercury waived Megan McConnell, who played 13 minutes of one game for Phoenix.<\/p>\n

Megan McConnell left Duquesne as one of the best players in the school’s history. The guard ranks second in program history in points and rebounds, and holds program records<\/a> for games played, games started, steals, assists and triple-doubles.<\/p>\n

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After leading the Dukes to the round of 16 in the WNIT, McConnell joined the Mercury as a training camp invitee. She signed a contract<\/a> with the team earlier this month before debuting on June 3, in an 88-65 loss to the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n

McConnell scored three points<\/a>, provided three assists and recorded one steal before departing with a right knee injury.<\/p>\n

McConnell was set to miss at least three weeks<\/a> due to the injury, but the Mercury on Thursday revealed that she has sustained a tibial plateau fracture<\/a>, which carries a three- to four-month recovery time.<\/p>\n

The franchise is aiding in her rehabilitation in the meantime, and\u00a0it remains to be seen if another WNBA team will take a chance on McConnell in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Related: TJ McConnell Receives Message From Ex-Celtics Star Before NBA Finals Game 7<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 26, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA Team Releases TJ McConnell\u2019s Sister on Thursday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Shortly after the Indiana Pacers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,20412,113,126,3866,3885,10770,10983,6,179,114,6908,1979,278,458],"class_list":{"0":"post-127281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-duquesne","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-indiana-pacers","12":"tag-indianapacers","13":"tag-mcconnell","14":"tag-megan-mcconnell","15":"tag-minnesota-lynx","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","18":"tag-pacers","19":"tag-phoenix-mercury","20":"tag-professional-basketball","21":"tag-tyrese-haliburton","22":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114751922830572966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}