![]() ![]() Two more likely first-rounders also dropped out this time for different reasons: Aijha Blackwell of Baylor has played all of 12 minutes since the last mock, and her injury status is too nebulous to feel confident in her being ready for the 2023 WNBA season or even declaring for this year’s draft. ![]() Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson and Ohio State’s Jacy Sheldon, both potential first-rounders when we conducted this exercise in January, will be using their COVID-19 year and returning to school in 2023-24, so they’re off the board. In our second mock draft, we have a full collegiate regular season to determine which players are most likely to be selected in the first round by the seven teams that still have picks.īefore we get to the selections, a few housekeeping notes and changes since the last mock. Nevertheless, each WNBA Draft class manages to produce about nine pros who will last in the league, and the players selected in the first round have the best chance of becoming one of those nine. Since The Athletic’s last mock draft, three more teams ( New York, Chicago and Connecticut) have traded out of the first round, joining Phoenix and Las Vegas as five teams without a pick in the top 12. ![]() The top of this draft class has obvious appeal (the reigning national player of the year and Final Four most outstanding player certainly makes an impression), but the league has implicitly expressed its lack of interest in the rest of the 2023 group by trading away multiple draft picks over the last two months. In the WNBA, no draft selections are given guaranteed contracts, and considering the number of players already on training camp deals, even first-round picks will have to beat out other players on training camp deals to make a final roster. But the offseason isn’t yet complete, as the draft has yet to take place. ![]()
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