Valkyries' explanation of Flau'jae Johnson trade with Storm remains confusing after WNBA Draft
This is a hard one to figure out.
Valkyries' explanation of Flau'jae Johnson trade with Storm remains confusing after WNBA Draft originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Flau'Jae Johnson only got about an hour to believe she was a member of the Golden State Valkyries before she was traded to the Seattle Storm during the WNBA Draft on Monday night.
And as the rest of the picture came out, things started to make even less sense than they seemed at the time of the trade announcement. The first confusion is simply the deal. Johnson was the No.
8 pick in the draft. She went to Seattle for the 16th pick of the draft (Marta Suarez), as well as a 2028 second-round pick. Generally speaking, two second-round picks wouldn't automatically equal a first-round pick in this way, but that's how the Valkyries decided upon the math here.
It got even weirder in the comments Valkyries GM Ohemaa Nyanin made to ESPN afterward. "Seattle and I had an agreement to trade picks prior to any athlete selection," Nyanin told ESPN . "I want to be super clear about the draft: This had nothing to do with Flau'jae or any specific athlete selection.