{"id":600286,"date":"2026-04-13T02:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T02:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:17:12","slug":"what-to-know-how-to-watch-history-of-top-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/600286\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know, how to watch, history of top picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top players available in this year\u2019s draft include Lauren Betts, Awa Fam and Azzi Fudd.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the event, which includes the new Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo teams for the first time, let\u2019s get caught up.<\/p>\n<p>The draft takes place Monday at The Shed at Hudson Yards in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s WNBA Draft starts at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>TV coverage of Monday\u2019s event will start at 5:30\u00a0p.m. on ESPN2 with the \u201cWNBA Orange Carpet Special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 7 p.m. draft will air on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN Unlimited, with full pre-draft coverage beginning at 6:30.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Wings, who also had the No. 1 pick in last year\u2019s draft, will select first in this year\u2019s draft. Here is the full draft order for the three-round draft.<\/p>\n<p>WNBA Draft No. 1 picks history<\/p>\n<p>Paige Buecker was the most-recent No. 1 WNBA Draft pick and Tina Thompson was the first-ever No. 1 WNBA Draft pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top players available in this year\u2019s draft include Lauren Betts, Awa Fam and Azzi Fudd. Ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,226106,82,630,227304],"class_list":["post-600286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latestnews","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-yahoo-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600286","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=600286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}