{"id":38710,"date":"2025-04-14T09:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/wnba-draft-2025-predictions-paige-bueckers-is-no-1-but-who-goes-next\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:42:19","slug":"wnba-draft-2025-predictions-paige-bueckers-is-no-1-but-who-goes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/wnba-draft-2025-predictions-paige-bueckers-is-no-1-but-who-goes-next\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA draft 2025 predictions: Paige Bueckers is No 1. But who goes next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our writers take a look at the best prospects coming out of college, and select their stars of the future and lower-round gems to watch<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most WNBA-ready prospect not named Paige Bueckers \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kiki Iriafen<\/strong> looks like a plug-and-play forward whose agility, rebounding instincts and face-up scoring will make her an immediate asset. She can defend across positions and has a reliable mid-range game. After transferring to USC, she showcased polish and poise against top-tier competition, traits that will translate quickly to the pro level. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uOqt4JMTZN8\">36-point outburst<\/a> in the second round of the NCAA Tournament after JuJu Watkins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/25\/uscs-juju-watkins-in-tears-as-apparent-torn-acl-ends-her-ncaa-tournament\">went down with a knee injury<\/a> only solidified her standing. <strong>BAG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/14\/wnba-draft-2025-predictions-paige-bueckers-is-no-1-but-who-goes-next\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our writers take a look at the best prospects coming out of college, and select their stars of the future and lower-round gems to watch The most WNBA-ready prospect not named Paige Bueckers \u2026 Kiki Iriafen looks like a plug-and-play forward whose agility, rebounding instincts and face-up scoring will make her an immediate asset. She &#8230; <a title=\"WNBA draft 2025 predictions: Paige Bueckers is No 1. But who goes next?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/wnba-draft-2025-predictions-paige-bueckers-is-no-1-but-who-goes-next\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WNBA draft 2025 predictions: Paige Bueckers is No 1. But who goes next?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}