DURHAM — Duke ladies’s basketball heart Kennedy Brown is about for the 2024 WNBA Draft, scheduled for Monday, April 15 on the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The WNBA Draft is slated to start at 7:30 p.m., ET and might be broadcast stay on ESPN.

Brown, a preseason Lisa Leslie Award watch record candidate, began all 33 video games this season for the Blue Devils averaging 8.3 factors, 5.5 rebounds and 1.3 blocks. She posted double determine scoring in 14 video games and pulled down not less than 5 rebounds in 23 contests together with three with 10-plus caroms. The Derby, Kan., product set the Duke report for many blocks in a primary quarter vs. Florida State (Jan. 25), tallying 4 of her game-high 5 rejections throughout the interval.

Moreover, Brown was one of many catalysts in serving to the Blue Devils publish the ACC’s high defensive for the second consecutive season whereas checking in at No. 4 within the NCAA in that very same metric, based on HerHoopStats.

Duke has had 26 student-athletes drafted since 1999 within the WNBA, with 11 of them being first-round draft picks – the marks rating No. 4 and No. 5 all-time, respectively. The Blue Devils at present characteristic 4 alumnae within the league together with Lexie Brown (Los Angeles), Chelsea Grey (Las Vegas), Elizabeth Williams (Chicago) and Jasmine Thomas (Los Angeles). 

Indiana owns the No. 1 choice within the 2024 draft, adopted by Los Angeles, Chicago, Los Angeles and Dallas within the top-five. Washington, Chicago, Minnesota, Dallas, Connecticut, New York and Atlanta spherical out the 12 picks within the first spherical.  The draft will characteristic three rounds and a complete of 36 picks. 

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Not since Sabrina Ionescu in 2020 has there been such pleasure round a participant coming into the WNBA draft than there may be at present towards Caitlin Clark.

After a historic season with the Iowa Hawkeyes – one which finally led to heartbreak with a defeat to South Carolina within the NCAA event nationwide championship recreation – Clark enters the draft because the overwhelming favourite to be chosen first general by the Indiana Fever.

However exterior of Clark, there are many gamers to maintain your eyes on, so right here’s every thing you could know forward of the 2024 WNBA draft.

The 2024 version of the WNBA draft shall be held on Monday on the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Protection begins at 7:30 p.m. E.T. on ESPN and might be streamed on the ESPN app or fuboTV.

After final 12 months’s heartbreaking nationwide championship recreation defeat, Clark’s final dance with the Hawkeyes nearly led to fairytale vogue.

Though Iowa finally fell on the closing hurdle once more – this time by the hands of South Carolina – Clark’s 2023-24 marketing campaign highlighted the impression she’s had on girls’s basketball by way of her reputation and distinctive skillset.

Wherever Clark has gone, Iowa has offered out arenas as ‘Clarkmania’ gripped the nation.

She grew to become the all-time main scorer in each males’s and ladies’s Division I faculty basketball in the course of the previous season, was named Naismith Participant of the Yr for the second consecutive season and had been named to the USA Basketball Girls’s Nationwide Group’s 14-player coaching camp roster, maybe paving the way in which for an Olympics look at Paris 2024. Nonetheless, Clark was unable to take part as a result of it was held the identical week because the Ultimate 4.

And now, with Clark confirming her intentions to go to the WNBA, that pleasure has been pushed ahead to what she may obtain within the execs.

Ticket costs to observe the Indiana Fever – the workforce who has the No. 1 decide within the draft and is predicted to pick out Clark – have greater than doubled, such is the anticipation to observe her long-range demolition of opposing defenses.

The Fever had one of many worst information within the league final season, however with final 12 months’s No. 1 general decide Aliyah Boston paired with Clark, it may make for field workplace viewing.

Outdoors of Clark, the 2024 WNBA draft class is loaded with expertise, with some potential franchise cornerstones up for grabs.

The following three predicted picks are a consensus amongst most draft analysts, though the order varies relying on the outlet.

Chief amongst these is Cameron Brink, the ahead out of Stanford.

The 22-year-old has developed into some of the dominant defensive gamers in girls’s faculty basketball over the previous couple of years, being named the 2024 Naismith Defensive Participant of the Yr.

Though her closing season with Stanford led to a disappointing Candy 16 defeat to NC State, Brink was capable of file 32 rebounds and 18 blocks in simply three 2024 NCAA event video games.

Brink is predicted by many mock drafts to be chosen with the No. 2 decide behind Clark, along with her game-changing defensive abilities doubtless to supply a strong basis to construct upon for the workforce that chooses her.

Tennessee ahead Rickea Jackson can be broadly predicted to be a top-five decide, after blossoming right into a dynamic scoring participant for the Volunteers.

One other workforce whose season ended with a shock loss to NC State within the NCAA event, Jackson averaged 20.2 factors and eight.2 rebounds per recreation in her closing season with Tennessee, main the Southeastern Convention in scoring.

Jackson has the mix of offensive firepower, athleticism and dimension, which frequently correlates with successful groups.

One other extremely coveted participant is South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso, whose draft inventory rose after successful the nationwide championship.

The Brazilian performed a key function within the Gamecocks’ unbeaten title-winning facet this season, successful the event’s Ultimate 4 Most Excellent Participant award by way of her dominant performances.

In her sole season beginning for South Carolina, Cardoso averaged 14.4 factors and 9.7 rebounds in addition to racking up 82 blocks all through the season.

Her mixture of energy and delicate footwork made her an nearly unstoppable drive all through the ladies’s NCAA event and ought to be a skillset which interprets to the WNBA.

Right here’s the complete decide order for the primary spherical of the 2024 WNBA draft:

1. Indiana Fever

2. Los Angeles Sparks

3. Chicago Sky

4. Los Angeles Sparks

5. Dallas Wings

6. Washington Mystics

7. Chicago Sky

8. Minnesota Lynx

9. Dallas Wings

10. Connecticut Solar

11. New York Liberty

12. Atlanta Dream

Carolina Dealing with, one of many Southeast’s main built-in materials dealing with options suppliers, has named Joe Perkins its Chief Working Officer.

Perkins has served as govt vp of operations at Carolina Dealing with since April 1, 2020. He joined the corporate in 2012 as a gross sales consultant, shifting as much as gross sales supervisor, company warehouse options supervisor, director of warehouse merchandise and options, and vp of operations earlier than being named to the manager workforce. Beneath his management, Carolina Dealing with obtained the 2021 award for Finest Service Efficiency amongst all sellers in The Raymond Company community.

“Joe has proven unbelievable management as a member of our govt workforce, working tirelessly to not solely elevate our group within the materials dealing with house but in addition to assist particular person associates develop and understand their profession objectives,” mentioned Carolina Dealing with President & CEO Brent Hillabrand. “I’m delighted to announce his well-deserved promotion to Chief Working Officer.”

As COO, Perkins is answerable for the corporate’s service, energy administration, steady enchancment, distribution, leases, components and high quality assurance groups. He additionally will oversee the Intralogistics Options Group as Carolina Dealing with continues its evolution from a forklift-only supplier to an end-to-end intralogistics options firm providing a broad vary of consulting, linked applied sciences, materials dealing with tools and repair to assist the rising and altering wants of the fabric dealing with trade.

“That is an thrilling time to be in materials dealing with and I look ahead to serving to Carolina Dealing with proceed to strengthen its model as an skilled and dependable built-in options supplier and employer of selection,” Perkins mentioned. “Our aim is to be an issue solver for our prospects, serving to them accomplish their objectives in the best method.”

A local of Goldsboro, North Carolina, Perkins is a graduate of the College of Mt. Olive in Mt. Olive, North Carolina. He resides in Denver, North Carolina, along with his spouse and three youngsters.

Based in 1966, Carolina Dealing with is likely one of the Southeast’s main built-in materials dealing with options suppliers and the unique Raymond Options and Help Heart for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida’s Central time zone. The corporate supplies carry vehicles and automation options for producers, warehouses and distribution facilities, together with components, racking, storage, lighting and dock and door tools.

Sisay Lemma, of Ethiopia, set a blistering tempo and held on to win the Boston Marathon on Monday, working alone by means of many of the course to complete in 2 hours, 6 minutes, 17 seconds — the tenth quickest time within the race’s 128-year historical past.

Lemma arrived in Boston with the quickest time within the discipline, turning into simply the fourth individual ever to interrupt 2 hours, 2 minutes when he gained in Valencia final yr. And the 2021 London champion confirmed it on the course, separating himself from the pack in Ashland and opening a lead of greater than half of a mile.

Lemma ran the primary half in a single hour and 19 minutes — 99 seconds quicker than Geoffrey Mutai’s course document tempo in 2011, when he completed in 2 hours, 3 minutes and a couple of seconds — the quickest marathon in historical past to that time.

Lemma dropped to the pavement and rolled onto his again, smiling, after crossing the end line.

“I made a decision that I needed to start out quick early,” stated Lemma, whose victory in London in 2021 was his solely different main marathon victory. “I stored the tempo and I gained.”

Fellow Ethiopian Mohamed Esa closed the hole by means of the previous few miles, ending second by 41 seconds; two-time defending champion Evans Chebet was third.

Hellen Obiri defended her title within the girls’s race, outsprinting fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi down Boylston Avenue to win by eight seconds. Obiri is the primary lady to win back-to-back Boston marathons since 2005. She completed Monday in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 37 seconds.

“Defending the title was not straightforward. Since Boston began, it’s solely six girls. So I stated, ’Can I be considered one of them?’ If you wish to be considered one of them, you must work additional onerous,” she stated. “And I’m so joyful as a result of I’m now considered one of them. I’m now within the historical past books in Boston.”

The 34-year-old Obiri cut up from greater than a dozen runners within the second half of the race, then outfought a problem from Kenyan Sharon Lodeki over the ultimate three miles for the victory. It led a Kenyan sweep of the rostrum, with Lodeki crossing second in 2 hours, 22 minutes and 45 seconds. Two-time champion and 44-year-old Edna Kiplagat was third in 2 hours, 23 minutes and 21 seconds. Kiplagat completed thirtieth a yr in the past.

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Wheelchair division

Marcel Hug of Switzerland overcame a crash and captured his seventh males’s wheelchair Boston Marathon title, setting in a brand new course document Monday of 1 hour, quarter-hour, 33 seconds.

It bests his earlier course mark of 1 hour, 17 minutes and 6 seconds set final yr and was simply seven seconds from setting a brand new world document. It continues his streak of 11 consecutive main marathon titles.

American Daniel Romanchuk was second, with a time of 1 hour, 20 minutes and 37 seconds, adopted by Britain’s David Weir, ending in 1 hour, 22 minutes and 12 seconds. The 38-year-old Hug took benefit of temperatures within the mid-50s in the beginning of the race and was greater than 30 seconds forward of his fellow opponents by the midway mark.

Within the girls’s race, Britain’s Eden Rainbow-Cooper gained her first Boston crown, crossing in 1 hour, 35 minutes and 11 seconds. She was adopted by Switzerland’s Manuela Schar in 1 hour, 36 minutes and 41 seconds and Australia’s Madison de Rozario, with a time of 1 hour, 39 minutes and 20 seconds.

It was Rainbow-Cooper’s first main win. The 22-year-old was seventh in Boston a yr in the past. Her earlier high finishes in a significant was second in Tokyo this yr and second in Berlin in 2023.

Hug was cruising till he crashed whereas making the flip in the beginning of the Newton Hills part of the course, skidding and hitting a barrier at concerning the 18-mile mark. However he rapidly recovered and maintained an almost four-minute lead over the sphere.

“It was my fault,” Hug stated. “I had an excessive amount of weight, an excessive amount of stress from above to my steering, so I couldn’t steer.”

Hug and Rainbow-Cooper acquired $40,000 for the win and a bonus of $50,000 for setting the document. The Paris Paralympic marathon favourite, Hug will signify Switzerland in France this summer season.

Athletes from greater than 100 nations took on the 128th Boston Marathon in the present day. Whereas a lot of the almost 30,000 runners who cross the end line at Boylston gained’t take house any prizes, a choose few will turn out to be champions. Right here’s who gained.

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This submit might be up to date as athletes cross the end line. All instances under are unofficial outcomes.

Males’s skilled division:

• Sisay Lemma, from Ethiopia, accomplished the race in 2:06:17.
• Mohamed Esa, from Ethiopia, accomplished in 2:06:58.
• Evans Chebet, from Kenya, accomplished the course in 2:07:22. He beforehand gained the Boston Marathon in 2022 and 2023.

Girls’s skilled division:

• Hellen Obiri, from Kenya, accomplished the race in 2:22:37. It is her second consecutive Boston Marathon win.
• Sharon Lokedi, from Kenya, accomplished in 2:22:45.
• Edna Kiplagat, from Kenya, accomplished in 2:23:21.

Males’s wheelchair division:

• Marcel Hug, from Switzerland, accomplished the race with what could possibly be confirmed as a brand new course file of 1:15:33. He has now gained the Boston Marathon wheelchair division seven instances.
• Daniel Romanchuk, from the US, accomplished the race in 1:20:37.
• David Weir, from the UK, accomplished the race in 1:22:12.

Girls’s wheelchair division:

• Eden Rainbow-Cooper, from the UK, accomplished the race in 1:35:11.
• Manuela Schär, from Switzerland, accomplished the race in 1:36:41.
• Madison de Rozario, from Australia, accomplished the race in 1:39:20.

Males’s handcycle division:

• Zachary Stinson, from the US, accomplished in 1:04:46.
• John Masson, from the US, accomplished in 1:09:33.
• Dustin Baker, from the US, accomplished in 1:10:10.

Girls’s handcycle division:

• Alicia Dana, from the US, accomplished in 1:15:20.
• Edie Perkins, from the US, accomplished in 1:33:57.
• Devann Murphy, from the US, accomplished in 1:43:23.

Duo groups:

• Julien Pinsonneault and Could Lim, from Canada, accomplished with a time of two:54:43.
• Shaun Evans and Shamus Evans, from the US, accomplished with a time of two:55:35.
• Jean-Phillippe Morand and Victor Morand, from Canada, accomplished with a time of three:06:02.

Para divisions

Males’s para T62/T64/T42/T44 (decrease limb impairment)

• Marko Cheseto Lemtukei, from the US, accomplished with a time of two:46:45.
• Peter Keating, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:23:31.
• Brian Reynolds, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:28:41.

Girls’s para T62/T64/T42/T44 (decrease limb impairment)

• Kelly Bruno, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:31:30.
• Nicole Ver Kuilen, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:13:18.

Males’s para T61/T63/T43 (decrease limb impairment)

• Adam Popp, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:11:56.

Girls’s para T61/T63/T43 (decrease limb impairment)

• Tatsiana Khvitsko-Trimborn, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:00:04.
• Meghan Bradshaw, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:31:14.

Males’s para T45/T46 (higher limb impairment)

• Atsbha Gebremeskel, from Ethiopia, accomplished with a time of two:54:14.

Girls’s para T45/T46 (higher limb impairment)

• Adrienne Keane, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:44:26.

Males’s para T35-T38 (coordination impairment)

• Joseph Drake, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:32:44.

Girls’s para T35-T38 (coordination impairment)

• Cristina Burbach, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:41:17.
• Sara Whittingham, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:23:05.
• Renee Trent, from the US, accomplished with a time of 5:01:20.

Males’s para T20 (mental impairment)

• Thomas Cantara, from the US, accomplished with a time of two:35:23.
• Andrew Bryant, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:17:51.
• Timon Sideris, from Australia, accomplished with a time of three:24:37.

Males’s para T13 (imaginative and prescient impairment)

• Andrew Thorsen, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:02:23.
• Jared Broughton, from Canada, accomplished with a time of three:25:16.
• Brett Sims, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:52:12.

Girls’s para T13 (imaginative and prescient impairment)

• Lisa Thompson, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:00:58.
• Jennifer Herring, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:26:50.

Males’s para T11-T12 (imaginative and prescient impairment)

• Irwin Ramirez, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:24:21.
• Eric Robust, from the US, accomplished with a time of three:32:43.
• Marc Gibert accomplished with a time of three:49:22.

Girls’s para T11-T12 (imaginative and prescient impairment)

• Joyce Cron, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:27:46.
• Livea Pereira, from Brazil, accomplished with a time of 4:29:30.
• Hannah Defelice, from the US, accomplished with a time of 4:53:53.

Sunday couldn’t have gone any worse for the Timberwolves.

They entered the day with an opportunity on the No. 1 seed within the Western Convention with a bit of assist, they usually had been at the least assured the No. 2 seed with a win. Additionally they had an opportunity to indicate that their first two conferences this season in opposition to the Phoenix Suns weren’t indicative of a foul matchup, that ought to they face the Suns within the playoffs, the Wolves may deal with them.

Then the Wolves went out and misplaced 125-106, a end result that dropped them to the No. 3 seed because of Denver and Oklahoma Metropolis each profitable, whereas their reward for the second-best common season in group historical past (56-26) is to face these similar Suns who’ve now waxed them 3 times this season.

Phoenix has led by double digits for your entire second half of every matchup. The Wolves started the evening with a disastrous 19 turnovers within the first half and by no means acquired nearer than 10 factors from there.

Anthony Edwards had solely 13 factors on seven shot makes an attempt to go along with 5 turnovers, whereas Karl-Anthony Cities had solely 10 factors on 3-for-8 taking pictures in his second recreation again from left meniscus surgical procedure. Cities’ gradual re-acclimation and the way helpless the Wolves have regarded in opposition to Phoenix have put doubt within the Wolves’ possibilities to maneuver previous the primary spherical of a playoff collection for the primary time since 2004. Even when the group was professing outward confidence after the sport.

“It is actually the assumption in ourselves that we had all yr,” mentioned guard Mike Conley, who scored 17 factors. “It has to stay out. We’re a group that we have not regarded throughout the courtroom and thought we’re not higher than one other group. I believe in each recreation, we really feel like we will beat that opponent, and that is no totally different.”

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The Wolves regarded nowhere near competing with the Suns on Sunday after faltering to a 44-22 deficit within the first quarter because of 11 turnovers. Phoenix’s beginning lineup seems to current matchup issues for the Wolves, who had been utilizing Cities to protect Grayson Allen, who had 20 factors on 8-for-11 taking pictures.

“We have got loads to have a look at, for certain. Loads to get proper,” coach Chris Finch mentioned. “In order that’s good for us. Lots of issues we’ve to have a solution for once we get again out on the ground this week.”

Bradley Beal completed with 36 factors to guide the Suns, whereas Devin Booker had 23 and Kevin Durant added 15. Beal mentioned the Suns are studying nothing into their success in opposition to the Wolves this season.

“Which means nothing, actually,” Beal mentioned. “Yeah, we need to win each recreation within the common season we probably can, however that is nonetheless a great group over there. We will not simply take a look at the numbers or boxscores and suppose that we will come out and simply run by way of the collection.”

BOXSCORE: Phoenix 125, Wolves 106

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Cities tried to place as optimistic a face on Sunday’s debacle as he may by saying it was really a great factor the Wolves had been taking part in the opponent that they had essentially the most problem with all season within the first spherical.

“It is going to make us higher,” Cities mentioned. “It is going to take a look at our psychological fortitude, and it should take a look at our self-discipline. These are going to be issues that, if we get previous Spherical 1, we will want these forms of issues if we count on to be a championship group.”

There’s loads to determine for Recreation 1, which takes place Saturday at Goal Middle. Other than the defensive matchups, can the Wolves play Cities a full complement of minutes within the postseason? Can they get Edwards reignited in opposition to a Phoenix group that continuously doubles him and has held him to 14.3 factors per recreation this season?

“They gained three video games within the common season. Common season over with now,” Edwards mentioned. “We acquired the postseason, so we’ll be able to go.”

They did not appear like it Sunday.

Sunburned

The Timberwolves earned the No. 3 seed within the Western Convention and face Phoenix in a playoff collection, with Recreation 1 beginning Saturday. However the Suns, on the power of quick begins, swept the three-game regular-season collection.

Suns 133, Wolves 115 (Nov. 15): Wolves stored tempo for a lot of the first quarter however trailed 76-54 on the half.

Suns 97, Wolves 87 (April 5): Phoenix led 32-20 after the primary. Grayson Allen scored 23 factors, Kevin Durant 22.

Suns 125, Wolves 106 (Sunday): Suns dominated in the beginning, main 44-22 after one quarter.