It was a particularly modern night time in Brooklyn, as soon-to-be-pro faculty basketball stars descended upon the Brooklyn Academy of Music of the 2024 WNBA Draft.

To say that girls’s basketball is within the midst of a cultural growth could be an enormous understatement. Although trailblazers like Cynthia Cooper, Lisa Leslie, and Sheryl Swoopes spent years elevating the game—paving the way in which for newer standout gamers equivalent to Maya Moore, Sue Chicken and Diana Taurasi—curiosity in ladies’s hoops, significantly on the collegiate stage, has exploded over the previous yr. As an Iowa Hawkeye, Caitlin Clark grew to become the the NCAA Division 1 all-time main scorer; South Carolina head coach Daybreak Staley added one other notch to her legend belt when the Gamecocks defeated the Hawkeyes within the 2024 nationwide championship sport (which was watched by a record-breaking 18.7 million viewers); and when LSU’s Angel Reese introduced that she was foregoing her ultimate yr of faculty eligibility to enter the WNBA, she did so proper right here, with Vogue.

Tonight, WNBA hopefuls together with Cameron Brink, Aaliyah Edwards and Dyaisha Truthful arrived the draft in appears becoming of the second. Clark opted for a white satin blazer, matching mini skirt and cropped crystal prime by Prada, whereas Brink hit the orange carpet in a black and white cutout robe that includes a dramatic slit. Reese, in the meantime, donned a backless, hooded quantity by Bronx and Banco. And there was extra.

Forward, all one of the best style moments from the 2024 WNBA Draft.