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Source: Sky's Vandersloot set for '26 debut Friday...
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- CHICAGO -- Five-time All-Star Courtney Vandersloot is expected to make her 2026 debut with the Chicago Sky on Friday against the Portland Fire, a source told ESPN.
- Vandersloot, who has been out since tearing her right ACL last June, was listed as questionable Thursday but is slated to play barring a setback, according to the source.
- Vandersloot, 37, re-signed with the Sky before the 2025 season after playing two seasons with the New York Liberty and winning her second career championship in 2024.
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CHICAGO -- Five-time All-Star Courtney Vandersloot is expected to make her 2026 debut with the Chicago Sky on Friday against the Portland Fire, a source told ESPN.
Vandersloot, who has been out since tearing her right ACL last June, was listed as questionable Thursday but is slated to play barring a setback, according to the source.
Vandersloot, 37, re-signed with the Sky before the 2025 season after playing two seasons with the New York Liberty and winning her second career championship in 2024. A 5-foot-8 point guard, she was picked at No. 3 by the Sky in 2011 and played her first 12 seasons in Chicago, winning her first title with the team in 2021.
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