WNBA Draft: Golden State Valkyries select Juste Jocyte with No. 5 pick

The Golden State Valkyries selected Juste Jocyte of Lithuania with the first draft choice in franchise history. Jocyte is the second player drafted out of Lithuania -- and first in the first round -- joining Jurgita Streimikyte in 2000.

With the No. 17 pick, the Valkyries selected Maryland guard Shyanne Sellers.

Sellers shot a career-best 40.8% from 3-point range this past season while averaging 14.4 points, 3.8 rebounds and 4.1 assists for the Terps, who made the Sweet 16.

And with the franchise's final pick in their first draft, the Valkyries selected UCONN guard Kaitlyn Chen. She is fresh off an NCAA National Championship win where she played curcial minutes for the Huskies through the tournament.

Chen spent majority of her career at Princeton before deciding to head north to Connecticut.

As for the rest of the draft, to no suprise, Chen's teammate Paige Bueckers was selected No. 1 overall by the Dallas Wings.

Bueckers is the latest Huskies standout to go No. 1, joining former greats Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Tina Charles, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart.

Seattle followed Dallas' selection by taking 19-year-old French star Dominique Malonga with the No. 2 pick. The 6-foot-6 Malonga was part of the silver medal winning French Olympic basketball team. She's the first French player to be drafted this high since 1997, when Isabelle Fijalkowski went second.

The Washington Mystics, with a new coach and general manager, then took Notre Dame's Sonia Citron with the third pick, and Southern Cal's Kiki Iriafen with No. 4. They also took Kentucky guard Georgia Amoore with the sixth pick. Amoore was dressed on the WNBA's orange carpet by NBA star Russell Westbrook, who has a clothing brand called Honor The Gift. Amoore said Westbrook designed her outfit and was amazing to work with since they first got together on a Zoom session last November.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.