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2012 Connecticut Sun season

WNBA team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4545864 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012 WNBA season was the 14th season for the Connecticut Sun franchise of the Women's National Basketball Association. It is their tenth in Connecticut.

Transactions

WNBA draft

The following are the Sun's selections in the 2012 WNBA draft.

Transaction log

April 11, 2011: The Sun traded a third-round pick in the 2012 Draft to the Phoenix Mercury as part of the Tahnee Robinson trade.

February 6: The Sun signed Mistie Mims.

February 28: The Sun signed Sidney Spencer and Jessica Breland.

March 16: The Sun signed Dawn Evans.

April 17: The Sun signed Brittany Carter.

April 26: The Sun signed draft pick Chay Shegog.

April 30: The Sun signed Stefanie Murphy.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2012 Connecticut Sun season” as wNBA team season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Connecticut, season and WNBA can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wNBA team season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4545864. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012 Connecticut Sun season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.