On Sunday, the fate of the WNBA’s lottery teams was decided by a few ping-pong balls as the Dallas Wings emerged victorious, securing the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA draft. Much like last year, this draft class features a highlight No. 1 prospect and several other players with the potential to change franchises.
Here are the best-case scenarios for each of the four lottery teams:
No. 1 Dallas Wings: Paige Bueckers (UConn)
This one is all but certain at this point. Dallas emerged as the winners of the Paige Bueckers sweepstakes, which means the redshirt senior guard from UConn likely will be paired with All-Stars Arike Ogunbowale and Satou Sabally.
Bueckers’ great off-ball play means she’ll fit well next to the two stars. The bigger question will be how effectively Ogunbowale and Sabally scale back their games to help Bueckers, but as it looks, this should be an exciting trio to build around. The biggest question for new general manager Curt Miller will be how to fix the defense. The Wings were historically bad on that end of the floor, largely due to the atrocious mobility of Dallas’ bigs. Bueckers is the best player in this draft so there’s no need to worry about addressing that in the first round. Pick the talent now, address the other needs in free agency…
