The WNBA Draft has come and gone and Kelsey Plum is headed to San Antonio as the #1 pick. It was a crazy week for me personally, as I have been dealing with the loss of my grandfather who passed away on Tuesday and I have been going back and forth to my parent’s house to help them out. On top of that, the draft took place on Thursday — and I was live streaming for WNBA365 (It’s on YouTube, just search WNBA365). All night long, we kept expecting draft day trades because we just kept hearing through out the week and then NOTHING came up! Talk about disappointment, but I’m pretty sure there will be some more trades or action with WNBA Training camp set to open in a week!
This week was just crazy for me personally. I had all these plans lined up for the summer and I have just found out this week that there are some big events planned both in my family as well as among my friends. It’s crazy right? What is the saying again? When you make plans, God laughs? Yup. That’s what happened to me this week. All these emotions of sadness and happiness mixed together.
As for how the WNBA Draft turned out, I was just disappointed. I am aware of the fact that this year’s WNBA Draft class was weak (not superstars, just solid role players or borderline All Stars) but still. It sucks for the draftees and their family not to get a picture with the league president on the stage and have that moment. It was robbed of them. There was nothing wrong with the Draft and if anyone had any objection to it otherwise clearly did the WNBA a disservice. Congratulations to all of the WNBA Draftees and good luck in training camp. It’s going to be extremely difficult to make a WNBA roster from this year forward (I would expect less than 10 to make it) but take the opportunity and make your game better.
I haven’t put this on my blog yet, but I am working with Shattered Backboard for it’s WNBA/women’s college basketball website. http://www.shatteredbackboard.com. Check it out as we will have great stuff rolled out for the upcoming WNBA season. It’s been a fun ride so far and more great things are in the future.
As always, I appreciate many of you who check my blog daily hoping for some updates. This post is for you! I don’t post here often, but I thought I would give an update on what is happening in my life as well as my thoughts on the WNBA Draft. I’ll try my best to blog more often on my thoughts on the WNBA season, players, etc.
Thanks for all the support on Twitter and everywhere else.
Peace out!
– Aneela
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