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The Dallas Wings won the WNBA draft lottery for the second consecutive season on Sunday night.
The Wings, who selected Paige Bueckers No. 1 last year, had a 42 percent chance of securing the No. 1 pick again. Minnesota, which had the best record in the league last year, will take second place. The Lynx owned the Chicago Sky’s first-round pick after an earlier trade.
Seattle, Washington and Chicago completed the lottery.
The league will expand to 15 teams this season with the addition of Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire. Details of the expansion draft for those two new franchises have yet to be announced. The two teams will also pick sixth and seventh in next April’s draft.
Time to flip a coin for pick number 6
Tempo and Fire will flip a coin at a later date to determine who will get the sixth pick, according to the WNBA lottery broadcast.
The WNBA is currently negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union. The two parties agreed to extend the deadline from October 31 to November 30. Assuming a new collective agreement can be negotiated, the draft is typically held in April.
While there is no clear No. 1 draft pick like Bueckers last season, there are a host of draft-eligible players in college, including UCLA’s Lauren Betts, UConn’s Azzi Fudd, LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson and TCU’s Olivia Miles. There is also the Spanish player Awa Fam.
