The NCAA National Championship Tournament is a wrap! Now that Dawn Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks are national champions, our attention turns to the WNBA draft. This year’s draft will certainly be one for the books as both Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark have declared themselves for it. As I’ve compared in the past, this could be a Magic and Bird-type rivalry in women’s pro basketball. The fact that these two ladies are in the same draft is kismet. Of course, there’s intrigue as to which team drafts who and their draft order. But the sheer intrigue of it all is healthy for the WNBA. In an unprecedented scenario, WNBA games are already sold out for the upcoming season. The Las Vegas Aces already had to move their games versus the Indiana Fever to a larger arena to accommodate ticket demands. The reigning champion Aces will face the Fever who are favored to draft all-time NCAA scorer Caitlin Clark. In my lifetime, the energy surrounding professional women’s basketball has never been...
