Coach Reef in the draft WNBA, Paige Buickers and Lynx hopes this season

A new category of women’s basketball players is preparing to launch their career after the draft WNBA on Monday night, including Paige Bokerz in Minnesota.

The selection was the No. 1 selection, and to go to the wings of Dallas. She told Uconn Progress and Hopkins High School Reports Espn her correspondents after choosing that she hopes to bring “just a non -selfish leader, a person who only wants to win, he will do everything that requires winning”, to the league. “A person plays with a lot of heart, passion, and a lot of love for the game, and he loves to share it with others.”

While Bueckers goes to Lone Star State, Minnesota Lynx welcomes four new additions – three of the draft and the fourth player of trade. Sherrill Reef, the coach of basketball operations, joined the MPR Cathy Wurzer host at Mourning Edition on Tuesday to talk about the draft, the upcoming season and prosperity in the sporting interest of women.

Anastasia Olry Koso, 19 years old from Russia, is the first selection of Linux

No. 15 total on Monday night was Anastasia Olry Koso. The attacker is only 19 years old and went to Russia at the age of 15. Before the draft, played with UMMC Ekaterinburg.

“The story we love is that she not only played basketball, but was a fan in Wnba, because, as a young man, she will go to (Dynamo Kursk) games in Corsak, Russia, where Preparation gamesand Rebecca Bronson “I all played, and so I grew up a kind of watching WNBA players, and its aspirations are just like them,” said Reef.

Reeve I am sure Kosu can deal with WNBA and will be a great defender.

“She certainly cut her work to make a WNBA menu,” said Reef.

However, obtaining international athletes to the United States is more difficult as part of the second Trump administration.

Reef added: “It is a unique time, and we were definitely busy on the side of the migration from things to ensure that we got the players here.”

Lynx 2026 No. 1 was traded by Sufi goalkeeper Carly Samuelson. How to enhance the squad?

Before the draft, the icon abandoned his number 1 in the 2026 WNBA draft for the old Washington Washington guard Carly Samuelson. Reef said she was enthusiastic about this opportunity.

“We were interested in Karlie throughout the season, and we set it as a player that could definitely fit,” said Reef. “The starting group will be able to have a group behind them, as we did last year. We thought this is vital for our success.”

However, Lynx lost the main player Cecilia Zandalasini in the draft expansion, as Wnba added the thirteenth team – Golden Stayet Falkrez – in December.

“We were somewhat targeting to replace this shooting and Karlie’s got some hardness, and really admired the course of her career, from her lack of guaranteed contract now,” said Reef. “I really have her maturity.”

Building team or first place?

Lynx lost to New York Liberty in the final of last year. This was his first appearance in the finals since 2017, when Minnesota won the championship.

Reef said this year will be a mixture of building the team and its hero to the top.

“There are definitely places we can improve,” said Reef. “We are definitely trying to put ourselves to return to the finals and know if we can create a different result.”

How does it seem to watch the continuous growth in the league?

“As a person who enters the twenty -fifth years in WNBA, it is definitely fun and sick, all the things you can think about,” the countryside is reflected.

She said there are many fluctuations when WNBA was founded in 1996, as is the case with any increasing sports association. As she approaches her thirtieth birthday, her course is “exactly as we knew that it could be”, and Reeve “is pleased” to be part of it.