Source: Sun's Bone to be named WNBA's Most Improved Player

September 30, 2015 12:00 am • Last Updated: October 01, 2015 12:28 am

By By NED GRIFFEN

Connecticut’s Kelsey Bone, center, works toward the basket as Chicago’s Elena Delle Donne, left, Jessica Breland, center back, and Erika de Souza defend during the first half of a WNBA game on Sept. 13 at Mohegan Sun Arena. Bone will be named the winner of the WNBA’s Most Improved Player honor today, according to a league source. (Jessica Hill/AP Photo)

Connecticut Sun center Kelsey Bone has won the WNBA’s Most Improved Player honor, a league source said Wednesday.

An official announcement will be made Thursday.

Bone, a third-year center, set career highs for minutes played (29.1), shooting percentage (.508), scoring (15.4 ppg) and rebounding (6.3 rpg). She led the Sun in scoring and rebounding this season and was seventh in the league in scoring.

Connecticut acquired Bone from the New York Liberty on the night of the 2014 WNBA Draft (April 14) as part of a deal involving Olympic center Tina Charles, who threatened to sit out if the Sun didn’t send her to New York. The Sun also acquired the fourth overall pick in that draft (forward Alyssa Thomas), as well as New York’s first-round pick in the 2015 draft.

New York drafted Bone fifth overall in 2013.

— Ned Griffen

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