{"id":619152,"date":"2026-04-21T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:22:12","slug":"syracuse-womens-basketball-laila-phelia-gets-wnba-camp-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619152\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse women\u2019s basketball: Laila Phelia gets WNBA camp invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Syracuse Orange didn\u2019t have a selection in this year\u2019s WNBA Draft, but guard Laila Phelia has headed to training camp with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/teams\/atlanta\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Dream;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Atlanta Dream&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Phelia faces an uphill climb to break camp with a roster spot as Atlanta added three new guards to their roster which already included fiver returners led by Alisha Gray, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/6690\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rhyne Howard;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Rhyne Howard&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyne Howard<\/a> and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/wnba\/players\/5916\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jordin Canada;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Jordin Canada&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordin Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Opportunities for undrafted players is hard to come by in the WNBA. With expansion teams set to join the WNBA in 2028 (Cleveland), 2029 (Detroit) and 2030 (Philadelphia), those opportunities will increase so players like Phelia hope to make strong impressions and stay in the mix as roster spots grow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/HGTcIcCaYAA0wjh?format=jpg&amp;name=large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:View Link;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;View Link&quot;}\" class=\"link \">View Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Good luck to Laila as she pushes to keep her professional dreams alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Syracuse Orange didn\u2019t have a selection in this year\u2019s WNBA Draft, but guard Laila Phelia has headed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[732,49,48,232514,183289,232515,24809,159757,26073,6740,82,67844,6041,1722,630,232513],"class_list":{"0":"post-619152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-atlanta-dream","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-canisius-golden-griffins","12":"tag-icon-sportswire","13":"tag-jma-wireless-dome","14":"tag-jordin-canada","15":"tag-laila-phelia","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-rhyne-howard","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-syracuse","20":"tag-syracuse-orange","21":"tag-training-camp","22":"tag-wnba","23":"tag-women39s-college-basketball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619152","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=619152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}