Rhyne Howard, the No. 1 pick in the 2022 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream, was announced as the league's Rookie of the Year on Thursday.
Howard received 53 of 56 votes from a media panel and is the first top pick to win the award since Las Vegas' A'ja Wilson did so in 2018.
33 everywhere....
The Los Angeles Lakers acquire Utah Jazz guard Patrick Beverley in a trade, the team announced on Thursday.
The deal sends Lakers guard Talen Horton-Tucker and forward Stanley Johnson to the Jazz.
video clip is 33 seconds....
wore #21 with Clippers///22 with T-Wolves
Chet Holmgren, the No. 2 pick in the draft who starred at Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis and was the 2021 Mr. Basketball in Minnesota, will miss his entire rookie season after suffering a foot injury in a pro-am game last weekend.
The Thunder announced Thursday that Holmgren suffered torn ligaments in his foot that will require season-ending surgery.
It's a devastating blow to the Thunder and Holmgren, who would've made his NBA regular-season debut at Target Center against his home state Minnesota Timberwolves. ....wow what a coincidence!
Holmgren, 20, suffered the injury in Saturday's pro-am game in Seattle that is hosted by former NBA star (and Timberwolf) Jamal Crawford. Holmgren was defending LeBron James on a fastbreak and came up hobbling after the play.
another rookie has a an "injury" before season starts ..how stupid is this...
