Winners and question marks from the WNBA draft, plus reacting to Thorns' coaching change

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Claire recaps the WNBA Draft, discussing both the winners as well as the surprises from draft night. She breaks down what Caitlin Clark brings to the Fever, and why this draft class might put pressure on the league to accelerate their timelines. Claire also talks Kamilla Cardoso and Angel Reese in Chicago, and Cameron Brink and Rickea Jackson in LA. Then, she turns to the NWSL, explaining what’s gone wrong for the Thorns this year — and reacting live to the breaking news that Mike Norris has been removed from the head coaching role.

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0:00.0	With the understanding that a number of these players I think are going to continue to succeed,
0:04.0	continue to progress to excel at the professional level, puts the pressure back on the W MBA and on these individual teams to seize the moment.
0:12.0	People talk about salaries, people talk about
0:14.1	resources, flights, revenue share, all of the infrastructure has to be built. You
0:19.3	cannot keep building the plane in the air and I'm'm hopeful that the W MBA has a possibility here
0:25.8	to be proactive instead of reactive
0:28.7	in laying the foundation for what the new era of the League
0:30.8	is going to be. Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of The Late Sub.
0:40.0	I am your host Claire Watkins.
0:42.0	We got so much to talk about. We're going to get into the I am your host Claire Watkins.
0:42.8	We got so much to talk about.
0:44.2	We're gonna get into the W MBA draft,
0:46.2	talk about winners, losers, weird ones,
0:49.1	and just basically this huge watershed moment
0:51.5	for the league, this is to be such a fun year to cover and then we will get into
0:56.8	NWSL's returning action week four where some teams are looking good and others have so many question marks they just are kind of
1:05.8	turning into one giant one so excited to dig in let's get started all right so we're going to dive right in to the big zeitgeisty moment of the week.
1:16.4	Final four is over.
1:17.9	It is time for the WNBA.
1:21.6	No better example of how quickly things turn is that we're already talking about the
1:27.1	W MBA draft took place on Monday. We're recording this on Tuesday afternoon. It was great. I really enjoyed it. I watched it on TV. I got to see the
1:37.2	ESPN production. They did a half hour pre-show go into the draft itself.
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