The Toronto Tempo will have the sixth pick in the WNBA first-year player draft on April 13, choosing that option over having the top choice in the league’s expansion draft on April 3.
That means the Portland Fire will have the first choice in the expansion draft and the seventh pick in the WNBA draft.
The Tempo won the right to choose which option it wanted Friday, when a silver dollar was flipped on a Zoom call and came up Toronto’s way.
WNBA teams have until Sunday to inform the league of the five players they’ll be protecting ahead of the expansion draft. That draft will have two rounds, with up to six picks for each team in each round. The teams will alternate picks, with the team that picks second in the first round going first in the next round.
The new teams will pick among players left unprotected by their current WNBA teams. A current franchise can lose up to two players through the expansion draft. If a player is taken in the first round, a second player from that same franchise can’t be taken until the second round.