We won’t know all the players who will be in the 2024 WNBA draft lottery until next spring when they have declared. But soon we’ll know where the top talent is headed.
The WNBA holds its draft lottery Sunday (4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/ESPN App), and we find out which teams will get the Nos. 1-4 picks next April 15. This could be a franchise-changing draft, depending on which seniors opt to leave for the WNBA or stay for a fifth season in college due to the COVID-19 waiver.
The Indiana Fever, Los Angeles Sparks, Phoenix Mercury and Seattle Storm are all vying for the top pick.
Will Indiana get a second consecutive No. 1 pick to join last season’s WNBA Rookie of the Year Aliyah Boston? The Fever have the league’s longest playoff drought, last making the postseason in 2016.
Brittney Griner was the Mercury’s last top pick, in 2013. New coach Nate Tibbetts is trying to reignite a franchise that finished last in the WNBA in 2023.
The Sparks, longtime playoff regulars, have missed the postseason for three years in a row. Their most recent No. 1 pick, in 2012, was
