1-3. Griner, Delle Donne, Diggins go 1-2-3
BG: OMG it’s TH! and Teary-eyed Brittney Griner selected No. 1 by Mercury in WNBA draft
EDD: Delle Donne happy to be part of Sky and from Delaware: Delle Donne drafted No. 2; headed to Chicago
SD: Notre Dame women’s basketball: Diggins headed to Tulsa
4. Washington Mystics select Tayler Hill with fourth pick
5. Bone Sets Aggie Women’s Basketball History, First Aggie Selected in WNBA First Round
6. Storm selects Tianna Hawkins in WNBA draft
7. Oklahoma State’s Toni Young selected seventh by New York Liberty in WNBA Draft
8. Syracuse women’s basketball star Kayla Alexander picked 8th in WNBA Draft
9. Cal’s Layshia Clarendon selected ninth overall by Indiana Fever in WNBA draft
10. Mathies selected 10th in WNBA draft
11. UConn’s Kelly Faris drafted 11th overall by the Connecticut Sun
12. Lindsey Moore picked in 12th the WNBA Draft
Who else got picked:
K-State’s Chambers, KU’s Goodrich chosen in WNBA Draft
Lady Lions’ Bentley and Greene Drafted to WNBA
No pressure: What’s next for star trio? Griner, Delle Donne and Diggins must play well, help WNBA continue to grow
Now it’s official: Nothing outlandishly bizarre happened. The 3 To See were the top picks in Monday’s WNBA draft. So let’s examine what lies ahead for Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne and Skylar Diggins.
Is Big Bad Bill back? Draft grades: Liberty score an A
New York coach/general manager Bill Laimbeer snagged a slice of pizza as he was on his way out after chatting with the media here at the WNBA draft. He passed on the brownies, though. It already had been a sweet-enough night for the Liberty.
Asked if the draft could have gone any better, Laimbeer grinned and said, “No, actually. We came into this draft with certain names on certain spots, and they went exactly as we expected.”
Fagan writes about Bill’s draft picks: Young motivated by late coaches – Forward rededicated self to game after OSU’s Budke, Serna died in a plane crash
“Potential” means you haven’t done anything yet — or so the saying goes.
Toni Young heard it a lot from coach Kurt Budke during her first two seasons at Oklahoma State. “Potential is just what you can be,” Budke would say to Young. Sometimes he might change the phrasing, but the point was always the same: Young had a long way to go.
Every day, Budke and assistant coach Miranda Serna tried to light a fire under the 6-foot-2 forward. They wanted Young to dedicate herself to improvement, instead of just skating by on raw talent, which she had in abundance. “They would tell me all of the time that I could be a great player and play in the WNBA if I just put my effort into it,” Young said Monday night, after the New York Liberty selected her with the seventh pick of the first round in the WNBA draft. “When no one else believed in me, the two of them did.”
Swish Appeal has a Q&A with Brittney Griner on her 2013 WNBA Draft experience
They also offer a little pick-by-pick analysis.
So does the Bleacher Report. They’re also Breaking Down Top Picks That Will Have Biggest Impact
Mechelle takes time to reflect: Before 3 To See, this trio starred – Lisa Leslie, Sheryl Swoopes and Rebecca Lobo helped pave the way
In the spring of 1997, when they were poised to be “three to see,” the irony was that no one had actually seen them play competitive basketball for a while. All had been on a break from the sport. The pro hoops world that Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie and Rebecca Lobo were about to enter was exciting, but uncertain. Would this WNBA thing actually last?
Leap forward to the Twitter generation. The expected top three picks in the WNBA draft — Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame’s Skylar Diggins — aren’t going into unchartered territory. The WNBA will start its 17th season in May.
From Chiney: Friendships make women’s basketball special
