Dallas Wings backup guard Tyasha Harris will miss the remainder of the 2025 WNBA season while recovering from a knee injury, according to a press release from the team.
Harris underwent a successful procedure on her left knee on Tuesday, according to the release, after sustaining the injury in the Wings’ only win of the season, a 109-87 victory at the Connecticut Sun on May 27.
The Wings selected Harris with the seventh overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft, but she played for the Sun the last two seasons before returning to Dallas for 2025. She averaged a career-high 10.5 points per game last year for Connecticut and played particularly well for Dallas in the two games prior to getting injured against her former team on May 27.
Harris led the Wings in 3-point shooting percentage (45.5%) through the first five games of the season and connected on four of her last eight attempts from long range before logging just eight minutes in the win at Connecticut. She scored 10 points on 2-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc in a season-high 24 minutes in the Wings’ 83-75 loss at the Atlanta Dream on May 24. Harris led the WNBA in 3-point shooting percentage (46.4%) in 2023 while with the Sun.
Harris was listed as day-to-day with the left knee injury for a couple of games after the loss at Connecticut before opting for surgery to repair the knee. Her touch from deep will be missed for Dallas, which sits ninth out of 13 WNBA teams in 3-point shooting percentage this year, at 31.9%.
Her absence has been particularly noticeable in the last four games, as Paige Bueckers, the Wings’ starting point guard and primary playmaker, has also been out since the win over the Sun. Bueckers missed three games in the WNBA concussion protocol, then missed Sunday’s 81-65 loss to the Minnesota Lynx with an unrelated illness.
The circumstances have forced rookie Azaiah James into more of a featured role in the Wings’ backcourt rotation after James played just six minutes in the season-opening loss to the Lynx and was a DNP-coach’s decision in the next three.
James has flashed some ability in moments in the Wings’ last four games, but head coach Chris Koclanes still seems hesitant to lean on her too hard, even in Bueckers’ and Harris’ absence. The Wings have tried DiJonai Carrington at starting point guard, with varied results, and Kaila Charles got her first start of the year in Sunday’s loss to the Lynx.
Harris will be an unrestricted free agent after this season. She is the all-time assists leader at the University of South Carolina, where she helped the Gamecocks win the 2017 NCAA Tournament. She is expected to make a full recovery, according to the release.