The Washington Mystics are converting Alicia Flórez’s developmental contract to a rest-of-season contract, ESPN’s Kareem Copeland reported on Thursday. The 22-year-old Spanish rookie has averaged 7.3 points and 4.3 assists across 3 games.
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Alicia Flórez is signing a standard contract after excelling in for the Washington Mystics while playing on a developmental contract.
Noa Dalzell is a senior writer covering the WNBA and all of women’s basketball for Breakaway, SB Nation’s women’s sports vertical, as well as the Celtics for CelticsBlog.
She first signed the developmental contract on May 7th and made her WNBA debut on May 27th. Since then, she’s become an integral part of the Mystics’ rotation, averaging 22.3 minutes per game and illustrating she can pretty effectively run the offense, particularly for a player so young.
Flórez most recently played for Ensino Lugo, a Spanish club in the Liga Femenina, Spain’s top women’s basketball league. She averaged just over 11 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists per game last season.
Mystics head coach Sydney Johnson recently gushed about Flórez’s impact on the squad, per Copeland.
“I think her performance reflects how we want to play here in DC,” Johnson said. “This is a young woman who plays with incredible intensity. There’s the toughness there and the fight to play in basketball games, but she’s a wonderful teammate.”
The Mystics are 2-1 with Flórez active, and are coming off a 90-72 win over the Chicago Sky on Tuesday night in which she tallied 8 points, 3 assists, and a steal.
Georgia Amoore, who was drafted 6th overall in 2025, has been starting at point guard for Washington this season. Amoore missed her rookie season after tearing her ACL and has struggled to begin her sophomore season.
She is averaging 5.9 points and 3.8 assists per game, while shooting just 27.1% from the field across 8 games.
Alongside Flórez, Lucy Olsen, Rori Harmon, Alicia Florez Getino, and Cassandra Prosper have all gotten backup guard minutes this season.
Whether Flórez will eventually replace Amoore in the starting lineup remains to be seen, but through three games, her performance has shown the value of developmental roster spots. This is the first season in which WNBA teams can sign two players to developmental spots, which can later be converted to regular roster spots, thanks to a new provision in the recently signed CBA.
The Portland Fire previously converted Frieda Buhner and Holly Winterburn from developmental to standard contracts, becoming the first franchise to do so. Now, the Mystics follow in those footsteps, giving Flórez one of their 12 standard roster spots.
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