The Dallas Wings received the WNBA draft lottery that’s extensively presumed to be a choice of Paige Bueckers with the highest general decide, however the UConn star apparently coveted a special vacation spot.
ESPN’s Michael Voepel reported that Bueckers had one other staff she hoped to wind up with.
“Sources around the league have indicated that the Los Angeles Sparks, who got the No. 2 pick in the lottery, would have been Bueckers’ preferred option,” Voepel wrote.
“Like the Wings, the Sparks also currently don’t have a head coach. But Los Angeles is a gigantic market and a team that could also have used a guard like Bueckers.”
In contrast to the NBA and males’s school basketball the place seasons run concurrently, the ladies’s school basketball season and WNBA run basically back-to-back.
Bueckers will thus play her ultimate season at UConn, get drafted in April after which be thrown right into a whirlwind of a WNBA rookie season that kicks off in Might.
With the worst file within the league at 25-55 the final two seasons, the Sparks had a 44.2 % likelihood to win the WNBA draft lottery.
Nevertheless, the Wings really had a barely greater likelihood at profitable the lottery — 45.4 % — as a result of additionally they held the rights to a decide swap with the Chicago Sky.
When the lottery outcomes have been introduced, there was an audible groan on the Sparks’ watch get together, as somebody off-camera within the background requested, “Seriously?”
Bueckers and the Huskies have +450 odds to win the ladies’s nationwide championship this season, in keeping with the newest odds on FanDuel.
They path solely defending champion South Carolina, which has +200 odds.
