UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Indiana Fever won the WNBA draft lotterygame for the No. 1 choice for the 2nd successive season Sunday.
The Fever took Aliyah Boston last season with the leading choice and she made the league’s Rookie of the Year honors.
“This is remarkable news for our franchise to get another No. 1 total choice,” Fever GM Lin Dunn stated.
The Chicago Sky will have simply choice No. 13 in the three-round, 36-pick draft, which will be held April15 The Sky do not have first-round or third-round draft chooses in 2024 as a outcome of the Marina Mabrey trade in February. Their first-round choice went to Dallas, second-round choice to New York and third-round choice to Phoenix. The No. 13 choice belonged to Phoenix however endedupbeing Chicago’s as part of the trade plan. That contract will likewise impact the 2025 draft.
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Now Indiana will have to wait to see who chooses to gointo the draft. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and LSU’s Angel Reese all might head back to school for another year thanks to the additional season duetothefactthat of the coronavirus.
Clark, a generational skill, has stated that she would trust her gut when choosing whether to stay in school for a 5th year. Players have a coupleof days before the draft to state.
Indiana, which hasn’t made the playoffs giventhat 2016, had a 44% possibility of getting the No. 1 choice. They endedupbeing just the 3rd franchise to win the draft lotterygame in successive seasons, signingupwith the Seattle Storm (2015, 2016) and the Las Vegas Aces (2017-19).
Los Angeles has the No. 2 choice with Phoenix selecting 3rd and Seattle 4th. The Sparks, who had an 18% opportunity at getting the top choice, haveactually missedouton the postseason 2 straight years and last had No. 1 in 2012 when they prepared Nneka Ogwumike.
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