T he Los Angeles Sparks had the best odds to receive the number one overall pick in the 2025 WNBA draft, but for the second straight year Los Angeles will be picking second. The S

The Phoenix Mercury will have the No. 7 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA draft, the league announced during its lottery on Sunday. The 2025 draft occurs April 14 following the NCAA women's national championship.

The Sparks had the best odds, at 44%, to secure the top pick, but the Dallas Wings claimed the No. 1 selection and the chance to draft UConn star Paige Bueckers.

Luck wasn’t on the Washington Mystics’ side Sunday afternoon, when they stayed put with the No. 4 pick in the WNBA draft. They entered the lottery with the worst odds of the four contenders and didn’t get any help from the ping-pong balls.

The Dallas Wings won the 2025 WNBA Draft Lottery presented by State Farm® and will have the first overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft.

The Dallas Wings on Sunday won the No. 1 overall selection in the 2025 WNBA Draft and with that the right to select Connecticut guard Paige Bueckers, an early contender again to win the Naismith and Wooden Player of the Year awards.

The Dallas Wings have won the 2025 WNBA draft lottery, meaning they will pick first overall in April’s event. Dallas came into the lottery with favorable odds of landing the top pick. The Wings had a 22.7% chance at winning the lottery, trailing only the Los Angeles Sparks (44.2%).

The Los Angeles Sparks came into Sunday’s 2025 WNBA Draft lottery with the top odds at landing the No. 1 overall pick. But that was not to be as the Dallas Wings bumped them to grab the No. 1 pick in the draft.

The basketball gods seem to have a vendetta against the Sparks. For the second consecutive year, Los Angeles came one pick shy of the top spot in the WNBA draft, leaving the team in disbelief in a video that was posted on social media.

Despite having the best odds at the top pick and Paige Bueckers in the 2025 WNBA Draft, the Sparks ended up with the No. 2 pick