Alanna Smith listed out for the Wings: the 17.9 minutes and who takes them

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.