Earlier this week, Josh Felton mapped out the best-case 2025 WNBA Draft scenarios for the four lottery teams. Well, those were the realistic best-case scenarios.
Would the opportunity to draft USC’s JuJu Watkins, Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo or Texas’ Madison Booker, all of whom are sophomores, be the best-case scenario for some of those teams? For Los Angeles Sparks fans, the sting of missing out on the No. 1 pick for the second-straight season certainly would be alleviated if the LA-born Watkins was to wear purple and gold. Likewise, Hidalgo would be the perfect solve for the Sky’s needs at No. 3: a point guard who is scoring and shooting threat.
Juju watkins and Cameron brink would feed families w/e needs to be done for juju to end up on the sparks in a few years needs to be done https://t.co/CPeQtRioWK
— Jamal Cristopher (@JamCristopher) June 11, 2024
Such scenarios are, of course, impossible, as the WNBA requires US-born prospects to turn 22 before Dec. 31 of the year of the draft, graduate from a four-year college within three months of the draft or be four years removed from their high school graduation. So while some older juniors have entered the draft early, such a Jewell Loyd in 2015 or Jackie Young in 2019, most prospects participate in four…
