Can Paige Bueckers get you to watch the WNBA Draft?

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Episode 495 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Sabreena Merchant, a staff writer covering women's basketball at The Athletic and one of the hosts of "No Offseason," the Athletic Women's Basketball podcast. In this podcast we discuss ESPN televising the 2025 WNBA Draft; whether we think it's a good television production; Holly Rowe interviewing at the WNBA Draft; who we think goes after Bueckers in the Draft; how Bueckers projects in year one in the WNBA; why we both like Serena Sundell and Georgia Amore as roster selections; why Sabreena has UConn, South Carolina and Texas as her Top 3 for next year in college basketball and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.1	So whatever else lets you down, it won't be your ACA. It's a gaffer of an ACA!
0:21.1	From Ladbrooks. Welcome to the sports media podcast.
0:43.3	I'm your host, Richard Dutch.
0:44.1	My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:46.1	One guest on this episode, but nobody better when it comes to discussing the WNBA draft,
0:53.2	women's college basketball. She is Sabrina Merchant, staff writer at the athletic, awesome. And it comes to discussing the WNBA draft, Women's College Basketball.
0:55.2	She is Sabrina Merchant, staff writer at the Athletic, also one of the pillars of no offseason,
1:01.4	which is the Athletic Women's Basketball Show podcast.
1:04.7	She's getting rave reviews, Sabrina, from internally at the Athletics.
1:08.5	So you should be very proud of all the hard work you and your group have done.
1:12.7	And with that,
1:13.2	I welcome you to the sports media podcast.
1:15.4	Thank you for having me back.
1:17.1	And of course.
1:18.1	All right.
1:18.5	We're going to start with the WMBA draft.
1:20.3	All right.
1:20.6	This is a media podcast.
1:21.7	So I have to pretend actually that, you know,
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