March 30, 2025
The Sunday Notes column goes on hiatus (again)
By Emily Adler
You’ll just have to enjoy Easter and Passover without me (again)
You may be looking at the headline, subtitle and photo at the start of this article and thinking to yourself, “Wow, this sure feels familiar!” That would be a very astute observation because these are the exact same lines I used last March. It is once again time for me to close Sunday Notes for the season and hunker down into drafting our draft board (wordplay fully intended).
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The beloved Hunter Cruse and Lincoln Shafer are once again also writing our 2025 WNBA Draft board, and while I don’t think it’s going to be as “deranged,” it should be our best yet. A little preview of what you can look forward to:
- A player who many outlets had in their preseason lotteries and was named an All-American last week is ranked outside the draft’s first round.
- “What if Luka Dončić was actually slow” as a player comp.
- Celeste Taylor and all 328 of her WNBA career minutes as a player comp.
- “Post-Achilles tear Candice Wiggins” as a player comp. You can decide whether that’s good or not.
- I finally get to use Tamecka Dixon as a player comp.
- Five or six guards are all going to have the same grade, and frankly, we’re still not confident in that ranking.
- There’s finally an American forward/center we like. No, not the one you’re thinking of (unless you’ve listened to recent Saturday podcasts). Not that one, either.
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We once again have plenty of players to talk about, some of whom are household names and one who no one outside a couple of message boards had ever heard of until Lincoln asked whether we’d ever heard of this Russian teenager, roughly four hours before final edits on the preseason board were due.
Until then, please enjoy:
NC State guard Aziaha James cooking defenders off the bounce …
… and UConn forward Sarah Strong doing ridiculous things …
… and a handful of eye-popping threes from Michigan guard Syla Swords.
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Written by Emily Adler
Emily Adler (she/her) covers the WNBA at large and college basketball for The Next, with a focus on player development and the game behind the game.
