Overview
- Toronto Tempo and Portland Fire filled out initial rosters Friday in the WNBA Expansion Draft, selecting 11 players each from 13 teams that could protect five players.
- Toronto selected Nyara Sabally from the New York Liberty as Portland chose Luisa Geiselsöder from the Dallas Wings, moving two 26-year-old German national-team centers.
- Portland won a coin flip for the first pick and used it on Canadian guard Bridget Carleton.
- Liberty general manager Jonathan Kolb said Sabally's exit is extremely hard, a sentiment Dallas leadership also shared after losing Geiselsöder.
- The college and international draft comes next, with training camps to follow and an early May season start under a newly agreed collective bargaining agreement.