{"id":272539,"date":"2025-10-02T18:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272539\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:34:11","slug":"lexie-hull-reacts-to-upcoming-restricted-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/272539\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexie Hull reacts to upcoming restricted free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Indiana Fever<\/a> almost made the WNBA Finals. Indiana lost in Game 5 against Las Vegas<\/a> despite forcing overtime. Now the Fever face an uncertain future with only a handful of players under contract heading into the offseason. It sounds like one of their core players would love to stay in Indiana.<\/p>\n

Fever guard Lexie Hull will become a restricted free agent<\/a> this offseason. It will be the first time that Hull reaches free agency during her WNBA career.<\/p>\n

She told reporters how she’s feeling ahead of the offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ve built a life here, and I love this franchise,\u201d Hull said on Thursday via IndyStar’s Chloe Peterson. \u201cI love the people, I love the fans, so we’ll see what comes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indiana drafted Hull in the first round of the 2022 WNBA Draft.<\/p>\n

She has always been a solid rotational player for Indiana, but took her game to the next level in 2025.<\/p>\n

Hull averaged 7.2 points, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game during the regular season. She was lethal as a three-point shooter<\/a> and routinely showed off her impressive defensive skills.<\/p>\n

Since Hull is a restricted free agent, Indiana will have the opportunity to match any contract offer made to her.<\/p>\n

Lexie Hull filled with pride after Fever’s heartbreaking Game 5 loss to Aces<\/strong>\"IndianaGrace Smith\/IndyStar \/ USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Hull was one of Indiana’s most important players in Game 5, especially after Kelsey Mitchell left the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hull was clearly filled with pride when talking with reporters after the game. She recalled one moment just before overtime that she is especially proud of.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s what Steph said in the huddle, \u2018We’re built for this moment,’ when Kelsey went down and then when we were challenging the call on [Boston]. We’ve been here before, so it’s just so unlucky, so crazy, that that had to happen tonight,\u201d Hull said, referencing Aliyah Boston’s fifth foul<\/a> that saw her foul out just before overtime.<\/p>\n

The Fever did not win, but Hull was pleased that her team gave the Aces everything they had.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Aces are a great team, and for us to be able to put out the performance we did tonight and send it to overtime, that’s something to be proud of,\u201d Hull concluded.<\/p>\n

Hopefully the Fever can retain Hull and pick up where they left off next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Indiana Fever almost made the WNBA Finals. Indiana lost in Game 5 against Las Vegas despite forcing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[234,1492,62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-272539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-indiana-fever","9":"tag-lexie-hull","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115306015376545175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}