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December mailbag Part 1: Why can’t the Mystics draft Paige Bueckers and what should the Wizards do about Thomas Bryant?

Thank you for the questions for December’s mailbag. The first questions are here, and we’ll have more of your questions tomorrow. Thanks!

There are more women’s college basketball players leaving early, though not at the same rates as their male counterparts. Can the Mystics draft Paige Bueckers in 2022? (multiple emails)

No.

There are two age limits for WNBA draftees. Any women’s college basketball player, regardless of her FIBA nationality, must be at least 22 years old in the calendar year of the draft, or at least four years out of high school. Bueckers is a college basketball player and was born on Oct.