Washington coach Mike Thibault has been on the other side of this situation before, so it had to be kind of a relief when the tables were turned during this WNBA offseason. Thibault was coach at Connecticut when two prominent players for the Sun wanted to go "home" -- Katie Douglas to Indiana and Lindsay Whalen to Minnesota. Thibault and the Sun front office weren't looking to trade either one, but did so at least in part to help fulfill the players' wishes. It worked out for both. Douglas, who went to Indiana in 2008, won a WNBA title in 2012 with the Fever. Whalen, who went to Minnesota in 2010, has won three titles with the Lynx and is still playing for them. The Whalen trade, in particular, worked for Connecticut, too, as the Sun got 2010 No. 1 draft pick Tina Charles. Read more http://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id...-delle-donne-washington-mystics-work-progress
