Editor’s note: The Fever selected Boston with the No. 1 pick in Monday’s WNBA draft.
Fever general manager Lin Dunn was in Dallas for the women’s Final Four when her phone flooded with messages of congratulations. At first, Dunn was unsure what could have happened to make her phone blow up to this degree, but soon it became clear. Aliyah Boston had announced her decision to forgo her extra year of availability at South Carolina and declare for the WNBA draft. With this year’s No. 1 pick, it’s all but certain Indiana will select the former NCAA champion and former Naismith Player of the Year.
“Obviously, we’re very high on Aliyah Boston,” says Dunn. “Have we decided who we’re going to take with the first pick? No, we haven’t. We are going to do our due diligence, and we’re going to do our research, but certainly, she is in the pool of two or three players that we are considering for the first pick.”
