Alanna Smith listed out for the Wings: the 17.9 minutes and who takes them
The Dallas Wings lose a player who has averaged 6 points in 17.9 minutes across 32 games this season.
The read
Alanna Smith played every one of the Wings’ last five games — 20.6 minutes a night, five starts — so ESPN’s Out (leg) listing removes a role the Wings have not yet had to replace in the window we can observe. The betting question is who takes those minutes, and no box score answers it yet.
The listing
The listing: ESPN’s WNBA injury feed carries Alanna Smith as Out with a leg injury, last updated Sep 9 at 6:36 PM ET, with ESPN’s estimated return date of September 17 (an estimate, not a confirmation; feed updated Sep 9). That is ESPN’s status, not the league’s official injury report.
Her role and the rotation
Her 2026 regular season in the ESPN game log: 32 games, 6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1 assist in 17.9 minutes. Over her last 10 of those games she averaged 10.3 points in 25.7 minutes.
The Wings are 20-12 in the 32 games she has played and 4-4 in the 8 she has not. A split like that mixes opponents, dates and every other lineup change, so it describes the season rather than measuring her.
In the Wings’ last five games she started five and played 20.6 minutes a night. The healthy players with the heaviest minutes in that window are Paige Bueckers (30.4 min), Arike Ogunbowale (30 min) and Jessica Shepard (29.4 min); how her minutes divide among them is not yet established.
She is not the team’s only listing: ESPN’s feed also carries Azzi Fudd (Out) and Costanza Verona (Out).
The Dallas Wings are 24-16, the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference, 7 games back, 5-5 over their last 10, scoring 89 a game and allowing 85.4.
The market
The next price: in PropBetEdge’s latest capture for LA at DAL (Sep 17), Wings are 7.5-point favorites and the total sits at 176.5. With the bookmaker margin removed, the market’s consensus makes the Wings a 72.8% winner — a market benchmark, not a PropBetEdge projection.
That capture (Sep 11, 6:00 PM ET, 9 books) was taken two days after the feed’s update, so the listing was public when the price was set.
What matters next
What to watch: the Wings’ next game, LA at DAL on Thursday, September 17; the first box score without her, which is the first real evidence of who takes her minutes; and player-prop lines, captured only inside 36 hours of tip.
Why it matters for bettors
Alanna Smith’s 17.9 minutes a night now go to someone else, and no box score yet shows where.
Player-prop lines for the next game are captured only inside 36 hours of tip; that is where a minutes shift shows up first.
What argues against it
ESPN’s feed is a provider status, not the league’s official injury report, and it can change before tip.
Minutes redistribution is read from box scores, not from a published lineup.
Still unknown
The official game-day status and the starting lineup.
How the next posted player-prop lines treat the absence.
Markets touched: spread · total · player props
What the market shows
In the most recent PropBetEdge market capture for LA at DAL (Sep 17), Wings are 7.5-point favorites and the total sits at 176.5.
Best available moneylines: LA +265 (Bovada), DAL -300 (Fanatics).
Prices are the best across 9 books from The Odds API, captured Sep 11 at 6:00 PM ET.
With the bookmaker margin removed, the market’s consensus makes the Wings a 72.8% winner — a market benchmark, not a PropBetEdge projection.
Evidence & method
- ESPN WNBA injury feed · captured Sep 11, 7:11 PM ET · source ↗
- ESPN game log (2026 Regular Season) · source ↗
- ESPN team schedule — Dallas Wings (results since her last game) · source ↗
- ESPN box scores, last 5 Wings games (observed rotation) · source ↗
- The Odds API (stored PropBetEdge snapshot) · captured Sep 11, 6:00 PM ET
Written by PropBetEdge’s deterministic newsroom generator (wnba-articles/1.2.0) from the records above and checked by the publication gate: every number traces to a cited record, publisher reporting stays attributed to the publisher, and a story that fails the gate is held rather than published.
Photograph: Photo: Zafer · CC BY 4.0 (cropped) · Wikimedia CommonsPictured: Alanna Smith. The pictured player is matched to her Wikidata entry by exact name and date of birth, and the photo is reviewed before use; the frame is a PropBetEdge composition of the licensed original.
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