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Indiana Fever’s President of Basketball & Business Operations, Kelly Krauskopf, Joins Query & Company!

Query & Company

93.5 & 107.5 The Fan

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3.1759 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Indiana Fever’s President of Basketball & Business Operations, Kelly Krauskopf, joins Query & Company to share what they saw in Raven Johnson that resulted in her being their first-round pick in the WNBA Draft on Monday night. Jake asks her about the quick turnaround between free agency and the draft preparation and discusses how much work is still left to be done with the roster.  

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0:00.0

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0:02.1

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0:17.2

Go to hopeplumbing.com for summer coupons, including buybacks of up to $1,500 for a $1,000 for a water heater when you purchase a tankless. Fact. Hope plumbing, heating, and cooling just made your summer better. Hopeplumbing.com. She is the president of basketball business operation for the Indiana Fever. Of course, longtime member of Pacer Sports Entertainment. Kelly Crossgolf joins the show to talk about that and more.

0:38.9

Kelly, it is a pleasure.

0:39.8

How are you?

0:51.8

Hey, Jake. I'm doing great. Doing great. Good to talk with you today. Well, I appreciate you coming on. Let's begin with exactly that. And that is when you went into the draft, you know, sometimes you go into drafts, I don't mean you particularly,

0:54.1

but we hear about teams that go in and they say,

0:56.7

we need to address A if it's available.

0:54.1

And if not, we'll pivot to B. to drafts, I don't mean you particularly, but we hear about teams that go in and they say,

0:59.6

we need to address A if it's available. And if not, we'll pivot to B or C or whatever may be.

1:04.4

What was the mindset of what you were looking for going into the draft before you knew specifically what would be available to you?

1:07.9

Yeah, I mean, it's what you said. You know. I mean, picking at 10 is you're trying to get obviously a best player you can,

1:17.4

but positionally for us, we were really focused on a guard.

1:20.5

We were ready if that wasn't available, but we were focused on a guard.

1:24.0

And Raven was, you know, one of those guards.

1:27.0

So defensivelyly certainly somebody

1:29.2

that can back up Caitlin that is going to be on a rookie scale contract for a long time that can

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