{"id":314166,"date":"2025-11-29T10:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314166\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:24:29","slug":"dallas-wings-win-2026-wnba-draft-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314166\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings win 2026 WNBA draft lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paige Bueckers talks WNBA journey, UConn legacy and Geno Auriemma<\/p>\n

Paige Bueckers reflects on her WNBA rookie season, UConn legacy, and her partnership with CarMax.<\/p>\n

The Dallas Wings<\/a> were awarded the first pick during the 2026 WNBA draft lottery on Sunday, Nov. 23, and will have plenty of options available to bolster their roster.<\/p>\n

The Wings won the lottery for the second year in a row after selecting Paige Bueckers<\/a> in 2025. The 2026 WNBA draft will be held on April 13.<\/p>\n

UConn<\/a>‘s\u00a0Azzi Fudd<\/a>\u00a0has been projected to go No. 1 in many mock drafts. The Wings could also choose Spain’s Awa Fam, UCLA<\/a>‘s Lauren Betts<\/a>, TCU<\/a>‘s Olivia Miles<\/a> or LSU’s\u00a0Flau’jae Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want someone who wants to win,\u201d said Wings forward Maddy Siegrist, who represented the team at the lottery.<\/p>\n

Fudd and Bueckers were teammates at UConn, winning the national championship<\/a> during the 2024\u201325\u00a0season.<\/p>\n

Bueckers helped provide some level of hope for Dallas, winning the 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year award<\/a> and being named an all-star, but the Wings finished with an overall record of 10-34.<\/p>\n

The Wings will be in their first season with coach Jose Fernandez after firing Chris Koclanes after one year.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Lynx<\/a> will pick second in the draft, followed by the Seattle Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2026 WNBA draft order<\/p>\n

1. Dallas Wings<\/p>\n

2. Minnesota Lynx<\/p>\n

3. Seattle Storm<\/p>\n

4. Washington Mystics<\/p>\n

5. Chicago Sky<\/p>\n

6. Toronto Tempo\/Portland Fire<\/p>\n

7. Portland Fire\/Toronto Tempo<\/p>\n

8. Golden State Valkyries<\/p>\n

9. Washington Mystics<\/p>\n

10. Indiana Fever<\/p>\n

11. Washington Mystics<\/p>\n

12. Connecticut Sun<\/p>\n

13. Atlanta Dream<\/p>\n

14. Seattle Storm<\/p>\n

15. Connecticut Sun<\/p>\n

A coin flip to determine the sixth and seventh picks will be done at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Bueckers talks WNBA journey, UConn legacy and Geno Auriemma Paige Bueckers reflects on her WNBA rookie season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,8452,49,48,6681,726,12110,5588,4785,10881,3458,7236,3459,1625,1161,3049,6003,527,18231,78855,1465,10878,2561,5904,2803,8521,42094,42097,2598,736,8454,2034,44,1333,2042,1345,8451,4658,1334,7675,1611,1464,6281,1485,42095,11610,82,865,1440,2047,544,139957,3642,737,10229,630,38381,4134,4143],"class_list":["post-314166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-bueckers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-christian","tag-conference","tag-connecticut","tag-connecticut-huskies-womens-basketball","tag-connecticut-sun","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-wings","tag-draft","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-fever","tag-football","tag-frogs","tag-horned","tag-hub","tag-huskies","tag-inc","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-fever","tag-lynx","tag-maddy","tag-maddy-siegrist","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-mystics","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-overall-positive","tag-paige","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-positive","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sec","tag-sec-conference-football","tag-sec-hub","tag-siegrist","tag-sky","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-storm","tag-sun","tag-texas","tag-texas-christian-horned-frogs-womens-basketball","tag-washington","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wings","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-draft","tag-womens","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}