WNBA honors crash victims before Ionescu is No. 1 pick

Sabrina Ionescu, the consensus best player in women’s basketball, was the No. 1 pick in Friday night’s WNBA draft, as expected. But hers was not the first name called.
It shouldn’t be surprising that the late Kobe Bryant was front and center, given his prominent support of girls and women’s basketball before losing his life in a helicopter crash Jan. 27, en route to a girls basketball tournament in Thousand Oaks. And before Friday’s selection process actually began,