{"id":71608,"date":"2026-04-13T18:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/wnba-draft-2026-where-will-azzi-fudd-lauren-betts-and-other-top-prospects-land-live-buildup\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:02:05","slug":"wnba-draft-2026-where-will-azzi-fudd-lauren-betts-and-other-top-prospects-land-live-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/wnba-draft-2026-where-will-azzi-fudd-lauren-betts-and-other-top-prospects-land-live-buildup\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA draft 2026: where will Azzi Fudd, Lauren Betts and other top prospects land? \u2013 live buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Who will go No 1? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/13\/wnba-draft-2026-predictions-will-azzi-fudd-or-a-spanish-prodigy-go-no-1-overall\">Our writers made their predictions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Email <a href=\"mailto:ella.brockway@theguardian.com\">ella.brockway@theguardian.com<\/a> with thoughts<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/12\/sign-up-for-wnba-30-a-limited-run-womens-basketball-newsletter?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=WNBA26&amp;utm_content=WNBAstandfirst&amp;utm_term=WNBAstandfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\"><strong>Sign up for WNBA 30: a limited run women\u2019s basketball newsletter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The draft has three rounds with 15 picks each. The order of the top five overall picks were determined by a lottery system. Picks No 6 and No 7 go to the two new expansion teams. The rest of the picks in each round are ordered from worst to best records.<\/p>\n<p>More from the orange carpet:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/13\/wnba-draft-live-updates-azzi-fudd-lauren-betts-awa-fam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will go No 1? Our writers made their predictions Email ella.brockway@theguardian.com with thoughts Sign up for WNBA 30: a limited run women\u2019s basketball newsletter The draft has three rounds with 15 picks each. The order of the top five overall picks were determined by a lottery system. Picks No 6 and No 7 go &#8230; <a title=\"WNBA draft 2026: where will Azzi Fudd, Lauren Betts and other top prospects land? \u2013 live buildup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/wnba-draft-2026-where-will-azzi-fudd-lauren-betts-and-other-top-prospects-land-live-buildup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about WNBA draft 2026: where will Azzi Fudd, Lauren Betts and other top prospects land? \u2013 live buildup\">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-71608","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\/71608","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=71608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}