The only person who wasn’t convinced that Chiney Oguwmike would be
the top pick in the 2014 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA
)draft was Chiney Oguwmike. Despite admittedly reading multiple mock
drafts listing her first, and listening to expert opinions saying the
same, the Stanford forward refused to allow herself to believe that her
name would be the first called on Monday night inside Mohegan Sun Arena.
“I always feel like, ‘Oh, you never know, these things are never set,’”
Oguwmike said just afterward.Of course, this thing was set. And with the moment came a little piece of history.
When
the Connecticut Sun took Oguwmike with the No. 1 overall pick, she and
her sister, Los Angeles Sparks forward Nneka Oguwmike, became the second
pair of siblings each taken No. 1 overall in their respective drafts.
(The Sparks made Nneka the top pick of the 2012 WNBA draft.)Chiney and Nneka Ogwumike played two seasons together at Stanford, and were side-by-side again during Monday’s draft.
Not bad company.
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