Mohegan — Before DeWanna Bonner came to the Connecticut Sun in 2020, she wasn’t fully aware of the talent possessed by the Sun’s Alyssa Thomas.

“She’s one of the best in the world,” Bonner said Sunday. “I always tell her, like, ‘Damn, I didn’t know you were this good.’ I tell her that all the time. Playing against her (for the Phoenix Mercury), I didn’t realize she was this good until I got on the court with her.

“She’s legit one of the best players in the world. Everybody’s starting to recognize it.”

Thomas finished with a record-setting triple-double in Sunday’s 96-72 victory over the Chicago Sky, with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists.

Thomas finished with four triple-doubles last season, two in the regular season and two in back-to-back games in the WNBA Finals, making her the first player in league history to have four in one season, the first to record one in consecutive games and the first to register a triple-double in the WNBA Finals.

Sunday’s was the sixth of her career, the second in three games after finishing with a triple-double in Tuesday’s victory at Seattle, and it broke the WNBA’s regular-season mark for triple-doubles with four.

Thomas received a standing ovation for her efforts Sunday from the 6,517 fans at Mohegan Sun Arena. She also moved into first place all-time in rebounding for the Sun with 1,822, eclipsing Taj McWilliams Franklin’s 1,814.

Thomas was snubbed earlier in the day when the starters were named for the WNBA All-Star Game on July 15 in Las Vegas. Fans determined 50% of the vote, while a panel of media members and a selection of WNBA players accounted for 25% each.

The league’s head coaches will select the 12 reserves, which will be announced Saturday.

A 6-foot-2 forward from Maryland, who was the No. 4 overall pick in the 2014 draft by the New York Liberty, then traded to the Sun on draft day, Thomas is averaging 14.8 points, 10.5 rebounds and 7.9 assists, what head coach Stephanie White refers to as a point forward.

Bonner led the Sun (12-3) against Chicago (5-9) with 26 points and eight rebounds. DiJonai Carrington came off the bench to finish with 17 points, seven rebounds and four assists, Natisha Hiedeman added 14 points and five assists and Tiffany Hayes had 11 points.

It was the Sun’s first game since they announced that starting forward Brionna Jones will miss the remainder of the season with a ruptured right Achilles tendon.

Bonner was asked her thoughts about Thomas not being elected as an all-star starter.

“The thoughts are what she’s doing on the court,” Bonner said. “She should have been the all-star starter. Simple, man. There’s just no one like her in the world.”

“It just comes who you’re playing with,” Thomas said of her ability to add the number of assists she does to her points and rebounds. “I said to them, none of it’s possible without them. So my name might be on it but a lot of credit goes to my teammates. So far, this year for me I feel like it’s been the easiest for me with the way they’re knocking down shots.”

White, meanwhile, is in her first season coaching the Sun. She had seen Thomas from her position as a broadcaster in the league but said Thomas’s will to win and leadership ability is even greater in person.

“It’s not a surprise that her assist numbers are what they are because she knows where the ball needs to get to, she knows who to get it to, she knows when to get it to them,” White said.

“When you have a player that has that will to win, that has that competitive fire, that just plays their ass off all the time, that knows how to play too, that’s what you get.”

Kahleah Copper had 29 points for Chicago, which led 27-26 after one quarter.

Thomas gave the Sun the lead for good with a drive to make it 33-31 in the second quarter and she followed with an assist to Carrington on the front end of a fast break. Olivia Nelson-Ododa scored on an offensive rebound and Hiedeman hit a jump shot on an assist from Thomas to push the lead to 39-31.

Connecticut led by as many as 26. The Sun play at home again at 7 p.m. Tuesday, facing the Liberty.

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