Having the Top Pick in Monday’s Wnba Draft Virtually Guaranteed the Dallas Wings AN “A” in Espn’s Draft Grades. And then the Wings Did Even Better.
Aspeted, they setcted Uconn Guard Paige BuECKERS At no. 1.
Two Teams in Rebuilding Mode – The Washington Mystics And Connecticut Sun – Also Had Strong Drafts. The Legue’s Newst Team, The Expansion Golden State ValkyriesDIDNTT GRADE AS Well (Their Expansion DRAFT Also Raised Eyebrows). But there’s always a chance for texts to receive these grades Wrong – Sometimes For Better, Sometimes for RORSE.
The Phoenix Mercury HAD No Picks Monday, and the Defending Champion New York Liberty HAD JUST One – The Final Section – So Therre’s No Grade for Ether Franchise. But here are our initial impressions of the 2025 draft for the other 11 Franchises.
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1: Paige BuECKERSUconn huzies, pg
12: Aziaha JamesNC State Wolfpack, SG
14: Madison ScottOle Miss Rebels, SG
27: JJ QuinerlyWest Virginia Mountaineers, SG
31: Aaronette vonlehBaylor bers, c
It’s a new er New Wings GM CURT Miller Is a Longime Wnba Coach and General Manager WhO Excelled with Defense in His Time Leading The Sun – and the Picks in His First Draft With Dallas Reflect that.
Admittedly, it will be hard for james, scott and quinerly to all make this roster. But they are all good players who will make camera verpective.
With VETERAN Arke OgunbowaleBuECKERS and JAmes on the Roster, The Wings Will Be hard to Guard. And dallas’ perimeter defense couold be Outstanding. Expecting this team to play very fast and take Advantage of all of Butckers’ Many Talents.
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BuECKKers Feels ‘Overwhellent Sense of GratTude’ after Being Drafted by Wings
Newly-Drafted Wings Star Paij Bueckers Expresses Her Emotions after Being the First Pick Of the Wnba Draft.
7: Aneesah MorrowLsu tigers, pf
8: Saniya RiversNC State Wolfpack, SF
25: Rayah MarshallUSC trojans, pf
The Sun Had to Be Thrilled that Morrow Was Still Available at no. 7. Like Her Former Lsu Teammate Angel Reese (Last Year’s no. 7 pick) was for Chicago, Morrow Couelf Be a Rebounding Star Right Away.
After Alyssa Thomas – Known as “The Engine”- To Phoenix Through Free Agency, now Morrow Comes in as a new motor.
Rivers is long, Quick and versatile, a Player Who Filled up box scores for the Wolfpack. Marshall Is Strong and Dependable As an Interior Defender and Rebounder, with some UNTAPDED OffNSive Potential, Too.
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Connecticut Sun Sect Aneesah Morrow 7th Overall
The Connecticut Sun Sect Aneesah Morrow from Lsu with the Sevent Pick Of The Wnba Draft.
3: Sonia CitronNotre Dame Fighting Irish, SG
4: Kiki IRIAFENUSC trojans, pf
6: Georgia AmooerKentucky Wildcats, PG
23: Lucy OlsenIOWA Hawkeyes, SG
32: Zaay GreenAlabama Crimson tide, pg
The Top Three here, of course, are the most likely to make an impct for a new-iLook Mystics Franchise. Citron is An Excel IRIAFEN Turned Herself INTO A Lottery Pick with Her Junior and Senior Seasons. Amooer is Small, but she is antensive force and will do What is weed of her on Defense.
Butarington’s Dept Impressed, Too: Olsen Excited Big Ten Fans With Her Scoring Ability in Her One Season at Iowa, and Green also haad a big impct in here one Season At Alabama.
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Mystics Take Sonia Citron with the 3rd pick
The Washington Mystics Select Notre Dame Star Sonia Citron with the Third Pick in the Wnba Draft.
19: Makayla TimpsonFlorida state seminalls, pf
20: Bree HallSouth Carolina Gamecocks, SG
33: Yvonne EjimGonzaga bulldogs, pf
The Fever Won The Draft The Past Two Years with Two No. 1 picks who would be a year in the year Aliyah Boston And Caitlin Clark. After Making the Playoffs for the First Time SINCE 2016, The Fever DIDNTTE HAVE A First-Round Pick in this DRAFT But Made the Most of what they had.
Timpson Just Might Be the Steal of the Second Round; She has average a Double-Double the Past Two SEANSONS for the Seminalls and Couls Be Enother Good Target for Clark’s Passes. Hall is a Lockdown Defender and Former Teammate of Boston’s At South Carolina.
2: Dominique Malonga, France, C
26: Serena SundellKansas State Wildcats, PG
29: Madison ConnerTcu Horned Frogs, SG
34: Jordan HobbsMichigan Wolverines, PG
We are ready to be wowed by Malonga, who could be one of the Next Great Post Players in the Wnba Despite Still Being A Teenager. She will have some Excel Nneka ogwumke With Seattle.
Malonga Alone Welf Earn A Good Grade for the Storm, but Sundell, a thred -nd pick, has a shot to make the team. She loved passing to ayoka lee at K-State, and now she could have another 6-rot-6 Target in Malonga, along with ogwke and 6-rot-4 Ezi Magbegar.
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Seattle Storm Select Dominique Malonga 2nd Overall
The Seattle Storm Select Dominique Malonga from France with the Second Pick Of the Wnba Draft.
10: Ajsa Sivka, Slovenia, PF
11: Hailey Van LithTcu Horned Frogs, PG
16: Maddy WestBELDNotre Dame Fighting Irish, PF
22: Aicha CoulibalyTexas A & M AgGies, SG
A LOT of this Grade Depends on Sivka, A Highly RGARDED Teen Who, Like Malonga, Doesn’t TURN 20 Until november. If She ADAPTS Well to the Wnba, The Sky Couelf Ha Angel Reese And Kamilla Cardoso.
Van Lith, Who Played One Season at Lsu With Reese, Reacked the Elite Eight Five Times as a College Player; We will see if she continued that succase in the pro game. WestBELD Might Have a Chance to Make the Roster, Too.
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Hailey Van Lith Thinks Family after Being Drafted by Chicago
New Chicago Sky Star Hailey Van Lith Tells Holly Rowe How Her Family Has Impacted Her Work Ethic.
9: Sarah Ashlee BarkerAlabama Crimson tide, sg
21: Sania FeaginSouth Carolina Gamecocks, PF
28: Liaatu kingNotre Dame Fighting Irish, SF
Barker wasnt this high on our Draft Board, but she had her carder-best year as a senior, Shooting 56% from 2-POINT Range and 37.5% from Behind the Arc.
Looking Back, Though, Feagin Might Be the Most Impactful Player the Sparks Get in this Draft. She called ento her Own This Season for the Gamesocks and Coup Just Be Scatching The Surface of Her Ability.
13: Aaliyah NyeAlabama Crimson tide, sg
35: Harmoni TurnerHarvard Crimson, SG
The Aces Lost Their First- Round Pick for LEGUE DiscipLinary Reasons, But they are the most of these selections, and at least one count make the roster. NYE cou terms be a good fit for coach becky hammon’s Offense-She Made More Than 100 3-Pointers Each of the Past Two Seasons, Shooting 41.7% Behind the Arc As a Junior and 45.5% AS A Senior. Turner was one of the Top Scorers in the Country (22.5 PPG) This Season and LED Harvard to the NCAA TOURNANT.
18: Te-Hina PaopaoSouth Carolina Gamecocks, SG
36: Taylor ThierryOHIO State Buckeyes, SF
With picks this late, there’s no Guarantee of getting someone who can make the team. But PaPao’s Shooting Ability Might Give Her A Chance. She wasn’t as Sharp from 3-Point Range for South Carolina this Season (37%) as she was in 2023-24 (46.8%), but we know what Kind of Shooter she can be.
Thierry was one of the Big Ten’s Best Defenders; Even if she doesn’t make this roster, sherd has a future in the wnba.
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TE-HINA PAOPAO is Ready to Bring Samoan Culture to Atlanta
New Atlanta Dream Star Te-Hina Paopao Talks About Bringing Her Samoan Heritage to the Wnba.
15: Anastasiia Kosu, Russia, SF
24: Dalayah DanielsWashington Huskies, pf
37: Aubrey GriffinUconn huzies, sf
A Big Part of the Reason the Grade Is Middle is They was an eyelash from Winning the Wnba Title Last Year and Bring Back All Those Key Players. They Traded their First-Round Pick (No. 11) to Chicago.
But the Player to Watch is Kosu, a Promision Youngster Who COUL END Up at Some Point Making this DRAFT Look Quite Good For Minnesota.
5: Juste Jocyte, Lithuania, SG
17: Shyanne SellersMaryland terrapins, pg
30: Kaitlyn ChenUconn huzies, pg
Part of the Difficulty with Evaluating the Valkyries’ First Draft is We Really Don’t Know How their Players Will Fit Toight Singe They Have Yet Yet To Play A Game AS AS Franchise.
SELLERS DOPDED FURTER THAN We We WE Expected; Perhaps She Makes An Impact on this Roster. As for the Valkyries’ First-Round Pick, We Don’t Want to Undery Jocyte’s Potential; She is highly regarded among the young players from Overseas. But the Valkyries Seem to Be Counting on Her to Make An IMEDIATE IMPACT, and it I Might Take Longer.
