After three predictable picks to begin the 2021 WNBA Draft, things started to get funky in the fourth slot, when the Indiana Fever selected Kysre Gondrezick, a player ESPN had mocked as a third-round pick.
From there, one thing led to another, as unpredictable pick after unpredictable pick rolled in. The result was that the Los Angeles Sparks were bound to pick with some big names left on the board. Names that, prior to the draft, people would have been surprised to see fall to the back half of the round.
Names like Arella Guirantes, who was projected to be drafted third in ESPN’s mock draft, and fourth in SB Nation’s.