The Dallas Wings will select first within the 2025 WNBA Draft after successful the draft lottery for the primary time in franchise historical past.
Sunday’s lottery awarded the No. 1 total variety to Dallas, which had 227 probabilities out of one,000 to have its quantity referred to as.
The Los Angeles Sparks, who had the most productive odds for the No. 1 select, will draft 2d for the second one directly yr. The Chicago Sky will select 3rd and the Washington Mystics shall be fourth.
The 4 groups to omit the 2024 postseason had been assigned quantity mixtures in response to their mixed information from the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Los Angeles (25-55) had essentially the most assigned mixtures (442 out of one,000), whilst Chicago was once tied with Dallas after having an identical 31-49 information since 2023.
The Wings are these days out there for a brand new head trainer once they parted tactics with Latricia Trammell following a 9-31 marketing campaign this previous season. The crew employed former Sparks and Connecticut Solar head trainer Curt Miller as its new common supervisor previous this month, and he’ll lead the seek for a brand new trainer.
UConn superstar guard Paige Bueckers is atop WNBA draft forums as the school season will get in movement. Different choices for the Wings may just come with Southern California ahead Kiki Iriafen and Notre Dame guard Olivia Miles.
In 2024, the Wings picked 5th and 9th total and drafted Ohio State guard Jacy Sheldon and French guard Carla Leite. The Sparks picked Stanford ahead Cameron Verge of collapse 2d total final April and the Sky additionally went 3rd, taking South Carolina heart Kamilla Cardoso ahead of including LSU’s Angel Reese at No. 7.
The growth Golden State Valkyries will select 5th in each and every of the draft’s 3 rounds. The Valkyries even have a diffusion draft on Dec. 6.
–Box Stage Media
