The Chicago Sky are grappling with the luxury and burden of options during this free-agency period. General manager Jeff Pagliocca almost entirely recouped the team’s draft stock over the last year, including securing the Nos. 3 and 10 picks in the 2025 WNBA draft. Now the Sky have to answer a key question: Is the No. 3 pick more valuable as a trade asset or a draft selection? This year’s ...
January is one of the busiest months on the women’s basketball calendar. Conference play ramps up in college basketball while WNBA free agency talks begin in a few weeks. Unrivaled, the 3×3 league co-founded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, debuts this month. Readers submitted so many great questions about all three buckets, so considering all the happenings around women’s basketball, I tried to hit all aspects of the sport in our first mailbag of 2025. What does the staff thi
Unlike the NBA, which has allowed NCAA athletes to leave college early to go pro for more than 50 years, the WNBA restricts anyone in the U.S. from entering the draft before the year they turn 22 or graduate early. Until recently, there was not much discussion about whether the WNBA should copy the NBA’s …
