After a triumphant 2024, expectations are raised for the WNBA in 2025. Swish Appeal’s staff writers are adding to the W’s great expectations, sharing our WNBA wishes for 2025:
Dominique Malonga becomes a Valkyrie
Not many players sell tickets in women’s basketball like a center who can dunk off a spin move. Not many centers in women’s basketball can dunk off a spin move. Not many 19 year olds average 15 points per game while playing professional basketball in France, nor do many have an Olympic medal. Not many 6-foot-6 post players shoot 52.9 percent from 3.
Dominique Malonga is an anomaly in every sense of the word. Her explosiveness and power is torturing WNBA scouts and their ability to properly analyze international prospects in an environment that predominantly favors stateside NCAA success. Malonga would only be a freshman if she were playing in college, but there’s a legitimate, non-zero chance that she would be the best player in the country. I would go as far as to claim that if there was more film of…
