Forward Damiris Dantas agreed to a new contract and will return for the 2018 season with the Atlanta Dream, the team announced Wednesday.
Dantas, from Brazil, played for the Dream last season after sitting out the 2016 season and spent the most recent offseason playing with the KB Stars in South Korea.
Dream coach Nicki Collen said Wednesday she looks forward to seeing Dantas grow as a fourth-year player.
“I am thrilled to announce the signing of Damiris Dantas,” Collen said in a statement. “DD has the size, skill, and strength to score in a variety of ways for us. She can knock down the three, attack the basket off the dribble or score on the low block.”
In her three full seasons in the WNBA, Dantas averaged 6.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 0.9 assists in 20.1 minutes.
With the Dream last season, Dantas averaged 7.7 points and 3.6 rebounds in 34 games and finished with 26 3-pointers, third-most on the Dream.
Dantas re-signed with the Dream a week after Angel McCoughtry announced her return. McCoughtry, a nine-year veteran, sat out the 2017 season when the Dream went 12-22 and missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.
After the firing of coach Michael Cooper, the Dream hired former Suns assistant Nicki Collen, who has impressively assembled the Dream roster over the past month with the return of McCoughtry, the signing of two-time WNBA champion Renee Montgomery and All-Star forward Jessica Breland and the re-signing of Dantas announced Wednesday.
