The Sun continued making moves on Tuesday, signing former All-Star and WNBA champion Diamond DeShields to a one-year deal. Connecticut also flipped Rebecca Allen to Chicago in exchange for seven-year veteran Lindsay Allen and the rights to Serbian international Nikolina Milić.

Before Tina Charles took her seat, she murmured under her breath, “I feel like I’m dreaming.” It’s assumed she was referring to the many great memories she has made in Connecticut, at UConn and in her early years with the Connecticut Sun,

Tina Charles said she felt like she was dreaming as she was reintroduced Wednesday with the Sun, the team that drafted her first overall in 2010.

American Tina Charles is back where she started her WNBA career as she's signed a one-year contract with the Connecticut Sun

Charles will join Marina Mabrey and Natasha Cloud as the core of the team. The Sun lost all five starters from last season’s squad through free agency or trades. Brionna Jones and DeWanna Bonner left to Atlanta and Indiana, respectively, via free agency. The Sun traded DiJonai Carrington and Ty Harris to Dallas. Alyssa Thomas was traded to Phoenix.

The Connecticut Sun signed eight-time All-Star Tina Charles on Sunday, according to ESPN's Alexa Philippou. Per Philippou, Charles is signing a one-year

Former UConn star Tina Charles signed a one-year deal with the Connecticut Sun for 2025, returning to the franchise that drafted her in 2010.

Charles, 36, spent the first four years of her career with the Sun, who selected her No. 1 overall in the 2010 draft out of UConn. She has since become the WNBA's all-time leading rebounder.