UNCASVILLE, Conn.– The Indiana Fever won the WNBA draft lotto 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 significant news for our franchise to get another No. 1 total choice,” Fever GM Lin Dunn stated.
The Chicago Sky will have simply select No. 13 in the three-round, 36-pick draft, which will be held April 15. The Sky do not have first-round or third-round draft choices in 2024 as an outcome of the Marina Mabrey sell February. Their first-round choice went to Dallas, second-round choice to New York and third-round choice to Phoenix. The No. 13 choice came from Phoenix however ended up being Chicago’s as part of the trade bundle. That contract will likewise impact the 2025 draft.
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Now Indiana will need to wait to see who chooses to get in 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 since of the coronavirus.