Chennedy Carter returned to the WNBA after playing in China and Mexico and quickly became a major scoring threat for the Las Vegas Aces. In her first five games, she scored 97 points, setting a league record for a player coming off the bench. Her speed disrupts defenses and creates separation, with even game coverage struggling to keep up. Carter’s offensive skill set includes quick pull-ups, tight ball-handling through crowded defenses, and effective crossovers against athletic defenders. She has produced efficiently with limited assistance, including a 20-point performance in 21 minutes. Her scoring has also held up in difficult spacing environments, even when sharing the paint with non-shooting bigs.
"Chennedy Carter has been everything the Las Vegas Aces imagined she could be when they signed the 27-year-old guard to a one-year deal this offseason, a signing that marked her return to the WNBA after a 2025 spent playing in China and Mexico. In Carter's first five games of the year, she's scored 97 points, a league record for a player coming off the bench. She wrecks whole defenses with what Aces head coach Becky Hammon called "eye-popping" speed, "especially if you haven't really seen it or you haven't seen it in a while.""
"At points in Sunday's Aces-Dream game, an 85-84 Vegas win in Atlanta, even the camera seemed like it was struggling to keep pace. Speed aside, there may not be a deeper bag than Carter's in the WNBA. She can pull up on a dime, snake her way through clusters of defenders on her way downhill, or cross over the very athletic Allisha Gray (see above)."
"The depths of that bag have been tested by some of the gnarliest spacing situations the WNBA can offer a young downhill scorer. In Chicago, she'd managed 17.5 points per game despite sharing the paint with two non-shooting bigs. She simply doesn't need much help. In a 20-point game on 7-of-13 shooting in her 21 minutes, only two of her buckets were assisted."
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