Forced to rebuild, retool, refresh or reinvigorate (pick your preferred term that optimistically contextualizes the situation of an organization expected to struggle through a rough season) after the team’s stars and coach chose to exit Uncasville, the Connecticut Sun can take a step toward a brighter, or at least less dim, future with the 2025 WNBA Draft.
Through the four-team trade that sent Alyssa Thomas to the Phoenix Mercury and DiJonai Carrington to the Dallas Wings, the Sun, previously without a first-round draft pick, ended up with picks No. 7 and No. 8. The back-to-back selections give the Sun two shots at landing a future star, or at least a solid contributor or two.
Although its easy to get swept up in draft day dreamings, where every player is imagined as reaching her highest upside, the reality is usually less rosy—especially in this draft. With several surefire first-round picks deciding to exercise their final year of college, headlined by new TCU Horned Frog Olivia Miles and newly-minted UConn Husky champion Azzi Fudd, the depth of the 2025 draft has been depleted, reducing the possibility that the Sun can nab the kind of impact player the team desperately needs.
That said, prospect projection is often an indecipherable mix of art and science, with…
