Caitlin Clark was the wire-to-wire top pick in ESPN’s 2024 WNBA mock draft. UConn‘s Paige Bueckers might be in the same position for 2025.
For ESPN’s initial WNBA mock draft for 2025, the order of picks has not been established. The lottery teams in order of odds for the No. 1 pick are: the Los Angeles Sparks, Dallas Wings, Chicago Sky and Washington Mystics. Until the draft lottery is held — likely in December — to set the official order, we will list them in this order.
Also, the Golden State Valkyries will join the league in 2025 as its 13th team. The WNBA has not announced details of the expansion draft or where the Valkyries will be slotted in the regular draft, which is traditionally in April.
For now, we slot Golden State at No. 5, just after the lottery picks. The last two WNBA expansion teams, Chicago in 2006 and the Atlanta Dream in 2008, drafted No. 6 and No. 8 in the first round, respectively. (The Dream initially were given the No. 4 pick in their first draft but traded it for a veteran player and the No. 8…
