It was an especially trendy night time in Brooklyn, as soon-to-be-pro faculty basketball stars descended upon the Brooklyn Academy of Music of the 2024 WNBA Draft.
To say that girls’s basketball is within the midst of a cultural growth can be an unlimited understatement. Although trailblazers like Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes spent years elevating the game—paving the way in which for newer standout gamers resembling Maya Moore, Sue Chicken and Diana Taurasi—curiosity in girls’s hoops, notably on the collegiate degree, has exploded over the previous 12 months. As an Iowa Hawkeye, Caitlin Clark grew to become the the NCAA Division 1 all-time main scorer; South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley added one other notch to her legend belt when the Gamecocks defeated the Hawkeyes within the 2024 nationwide championship recreation (which was watched by a record-breaking 18.7 million viewers); and when LSU’s Angel Reese introduced that she was foregoing her closing 12 months of school eligibility to enter the WNBA, she did so proper right here, with Vogue.
Tonight, WNBA hopefuls together with Cameron Brink, Aaliyah Edwards and Dyaisha Truthful arrived the draft in appears to be like becoming of the second. Clark opted for a white satin blazer, matching mini skirt and cropped crystal high by Prada, whereas Brink hit the orange carpet in a black and white cutout robe that includes a dramatic slit. Reese, in the meantime, donned a backless, hooded quantity by Bronx and Banco. And there was extra.
Forward, all one of the best vogue moments from the 2024 WNBA Draft.
