{"id":75237,"date":"2025-08-17T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75237\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T00:33:07","slug":"locked-on-womens-basketball-2030-wnba-all-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/75237\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked On Women’s Basketball: 2030 WNBA All-Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cruse and Shafer discuss the outlook for 2025\u2019s top rookies like Paige Bueckers<\/a> in Dallas and Dominique Malonga<\/a> in Seattle, which current stars will still be reigning at the top of the league, and the wave of college prospects who will begin their professional careers in the intervening five seasons, like USC\u2019s JuJu Watkins<\/a> and UConn\u2019s Sarah Strong<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shafer explaining why his predicted No. 1 overall player in 2030 is Sarah Strong<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Sarah Strong] is everything you could possibly ask for in a basketball player. She\u2019s a good 3-point shooter. She scores incredibly efficiently inside the arc. She\u2019s a good passer and an elite defender. Sarah strong is my best bet for who the best player in the world will be in five years. \u2026 That age 24, age 25 season is when all timers really show that they\u2019re all timers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBecoming Caitlin Clark\u201d is out now!<\/p>\n

Howard Megdal\u2019s newest book is here! \u201cBecoming Caitlin Clark: The Unknown Origin Story of a Modern Basketball Superstar\u201d captures both the historic nature of Clark\u2019s rise and the critical context over the previous century that helped make it possible, including interviews with Clark, Lisa Bluder (who also wrote the foreword), C. Vivian Stringer, Jan Jensen, Molly Kazmer and many others.<\/p>\n

Cruse on why he thinks Angel Reese<\/a>\u2018s floor makes her a perennial WNBA All-Star when predicting her as the top player after the first tier of options:<\/p>\n

There\u2019s [a couple players] I have ranked higher in terms of upside, but I think her level of floor\u2026 I think she\u2019s going to be an All-Star every year. The rebounding, the playmaking growth, the drives improving with the overall role change. So I think Angel is a nice pick here\u2026 She\u2019s a little bit younger than those [other] players.<\/p>\n

\"Locked<\/a><\/p>\n

Tune in to Locked On Women\u2019s Basketball<\/p>\n

Here at The IX Basketball, in addition to the 24\/7\/365 written content our staff provides, we also host the daily Locked On Women\u2019s Basketball<\/a> podcast. Join us Monday through Saturday each week as we discuss all things WNBA, collegiate basketball, basketball history and much more. Listen wherever you find podcasts or watch on YouTube.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

To stay up to date with every episode of the podcast,\u00a0subscribe on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or wherever you listen to podcasts. Catch up on all our WNBA coverage here<\/a>, and you can also find our NCAA coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cruse and Shafer discuss the outlook for 2025\u2019s top rookies like Paige Bueckers in Dallas and Dominique Malonga…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[7073,49,735,48,2803,46239,27802,46240,46241,12710,82,4664,6405,630,38381],"class_list":["post-75237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-all-star","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-indiana-fever","tag-juju-watkins","tag-locked-on-womens-basketball","tag-ncaaw","tag-sarah-strong","tag-southern-california","tag-sports","tag-uconn","tag-usc","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75237","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=75237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}