{"id":597878,"date":"2026-04-21T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597878\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T16:32:08","slug":"syracuse-womens-basketball-laila-phelia-gets-wnba-camp-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/597878\/","title":{"rendered":"Syracuse women\u2019s basketball: Laila Phelia gets WNBA camp invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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 Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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, Rhyne Howard and Jordin Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">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":597879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,93807,434],"class_list":["post-597878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-syracuse-womens-basketball","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}