{"id":62182,"date":"2025-11-24T00:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62182\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:23:13","slug":"dallas-wings-win-no-1-overall-pick-in-the-wnba-draft-for-the-second-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/62182\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings win No. 1 overall pick in the WNBA draft for the second year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dallas Wings<\/a> won big at the WNBA draft lottery on Sunday night, securing the No. 1 pick in the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n

Dallas had a 42% chance \u2014 the No. 1 odds \u2014 to win the lottery, and the team did so for a second consecutive year. The Wings secured the top pick in 2024 and selected Paige Bueckers No. 1 overall in the 2025 WNBA draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Securing another No. 1 pick should bode well for the Wings, who finished 10-34 in 2025 under first-year coach Chris Koclanes and 9-31 the previous season. Now, with newly-hired coach Jose Fernandez<\/a>, Dallas hopes to build around Bueckers, the 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n

Spanish center Awa Fam is the projected No. 1 pick in ESPN\u2019s 2026 WNBA mock draft. Other top prospects include UCLA\u2019s Lauren Betts, TCU\u2019s Olivia Miles and UConn\u2019s Azzi Fudd. Fudd and Bueckers, who won a national championship together at UConn last season, are dating<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Entering Sunday, Dallas had the rights to three first-round draft selections over the next two years, including a lottery pick in 2026.<\/p>\n

The draft lottery took place amid negotiations between the WNBA and the players\u2019 union over a new collective bargaining agreement. The deadline for negotiations was extended from Oct. 31 to Nov. 30.<\/p>\n

Where will the Dallas Wings land in the WNBA draft lottery this weekend?<\/a>Dallas Wings star Paige Bueckers has been booked and busy this offseason<\/a><\/p>\n

Find more Wings coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Wings won big at the WNBA draft lottery on Sunday night, securing the No. 1 pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,14421,154,1072,14422],"class_list":{"0":"post-62182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-dallas-wings","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wings","14":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}