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The 2020 WNBA draft was the league's draft for the 2020 WNBA season. A draft lottery was held on September 17, 2019 and the New York Liberty were awarded the first overall pick in the draft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the draft was held virtually without players, guests, and the media on-site.
The Women's National Basketball Association's first overall pick is the player who is selected first among all eligible draftees by a team during the annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft. The first pick is awarded to the team that wins the WNBA draft lottery; in most cases, that team had a losing record in the previous ...
On April 17, 2020, the New York Liberty selected Ionescu with the first overall pick in the 2020 WNBA draft. [44] She played her first game with the Liberty on July 25. In her second WNBA game on July 29 against the Dallas Wings, she recorded 33 points, 7 assists, and 7 rebounds in 34 minutes of play. [45]
The 2020 WNBA season was the 24th season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Washington Mystics were the defending champions. Planned changes to the league's schedule included an increase from 34 to 36 regular season games for each team, the introduction of a mid-season Commissioner's Cup tournament, and more games broadcast on ESPN and ABC. [1]
That’s four times the viewership of the 2023 draft, which drew an audience of 572,000, ESPN reported, and it eclipses the previous draft record of 601,000, in 2004. The Clark effect has also led ...
The 1997 WNBA draft was divided into three parts. The first part was the initial allocation of 16 players into individual teams. Players such as Cynthia Cooper and Michelle Timms were assigned to different teams. The second part was the WNBA Elite draft, which was composed of professional women's basketball players who had competed in other ...
The WNBA last held an expansion draft in 2008 for the Atlanta Dream, which until the Golden State Valkyries, had been the league's most recent addition. Two years prior, in 2006, the WNBA held an ...
Caitlin Clark. Maddie Meyer/Getty Images The most famous college athlete in America is ready to go pro. Caitlin Clark, the Iowa Hawkeyes guard who has taken the nation by storm with her prolific ...