The WNBA is really putting the “ACTION” in “transaction” in this fine month of April.
The first big splash of this free agent frenzy, of this tirade of trades, belonged to the Atlanta Dream and the Chicago Sky — a team we can always trust to make us go, “wait, what?” The Dream acquired Angel Reese and a future second-round pick swap from Chicago in exchange for Atlanta’s first-round picks in 2027 and 2028. While it was certainly no secret that Reese was unhappy in Chicago and a trade at some point could be expected, the return — or lack thereof — heading back to Sky Town has prompted the perpetually relevant question of: What are the Sky doing?!
Atlanta rightly owns the most meaningful move of the day, but the Lynx logo is also present on Monday’s entry of the WNBA Transaction Wire as well. As of Monday morning, Dorka Juhász officially was “set active.” Now, what exactly does that mean? It’s a great question. It doesn’t set anything in particular in any kind of stone, but it’s a step that needs to be taken in order for a player to return to the league after one or more season(s) away. Portland’s Nika Mühl and Seattle’s Jordan Horston, who both missed all of 2025 due to injury, also received the same distinction Monday (Mühl is expected to miss all of 2026 with another torn ACL, but Portland likely needed to conduct such a transaction to formally get her on their roster).
We can deduce from the designation that the Lynx expect Juhász to report to training camp at some point. The Turkish Super League season is complete. Juhász and Galatasaray made it all the way to the Super League Finals where they fell to the queens of Turkey, Fenerbahçe, 3-0. Galatasaray’s focus now shifts to the EuroLeague Final Six semifinals on April 17. If they win, a potential grudge match with Fenerbahçe could await them in the Final on April 19, the very same day the WNBA reports to training camp. Juhász has had a good showing in Galatasaray’s EuroLeague run, averaging 13.4 points and 8.1 rebounds across 17 EuroLeague contests.
There’s exactly three weeks between the EuroLeague Final and the Lynx’s season-opener against Reese and the Atlanta Dream on May 10, so Juhász would have plenty of time to get in-market, get some training camp reps in, play a couple preseason games and move right into the WNBA regular season.
Considering Juhász is almost certainly heading to the World Cup in Berlin to represent Hungary in September, a busy year packed with basketball is on tap for her. Even though the first domino in Lynx free agency is yet to fall, the Lynx should happily welcome Juhász back into the fold. She’s a high-floor, dependable player who will add a much-needed jolt into the team’s depth of bigs in the wake of Maria Kliundikova’s departure to Toronto in the Expansion Draft.
Juhász has averaged 5.4 points and 5.2 rebounds per game in 72 games and 34 starts across her two WNBA seasons in Minnesota.