You could almost hear a collective gasp across the WNBA world when the Indiana Fever made their lottery pick last April. Admittedly, the 2021 WNBA draft was weak; everyone knew that. However, there was at least still some potential for a good pick at No. 4. UCLA’s Michaela Onyenwere, for instance, was still available — she would go on to be the league’s 2021 rookie of the year.
But when the Fever instead chose West Virginia guard Kysre Gondrezick, a player most projected as a third-round pick, heads were scratched. And unfortunately for Indiana, too many of those kinds of decisions have added up as the organization has struggled to find its identity since Tamika…
