With live sports shut down, Friday’s WNBA draft will unfold under a bright spotlight—and with phenom Sabrina Ionescu likely going No. 1 to New York
The WNBA draft, often marginalized in a crowded sports calendar, will take it over Friday night. And it’s set to deliver something New Yorkers have long dreamed of: the game’s biggest college star delivered to its biggest market.
The draft will be one of the first live U.S. sports events to go off as scheduled since the coronavirus pandemic began erasing games in mid-March, and it will have its highest-ever profile.
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