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Seattle Storm select Nika Mühl, Mackenzie Holmes in WNBA Draft
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – APRIL 15: Nika Muhl poses with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected 14th overall pick by the Seattle Storm during the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Sarah Stier / Getty Images)
The Seattle Storm selected Connecticut guard Nika Mühl and Indiana forward Mackenzie Holmes with their two selections in Monday’s WNBA Draft.
The Storm did not have a first-round pick after trading it along with guard Kia Nurse to the Los Angeles Sparks in a January trade. Seattle received a 2026 first-round pick in return along with salary cap space that helped the team add guard Skylar Diggins-Smith and forward Nneka Ogwumike to the team this offseason.
Seattle held the second pick in each of the final two rounds – No. 14 and No. 26 overall.
A native of Zagreb, Croatia, Mühl is UConn’s all-time leader in assists (686) and shot 40 percent from 3-point range last season with the Huskies while also shining defensively. She averaged just 6.9 points per game while playing over 32 minutes a contest.
Like Storm legend Sue Bird, Mühl played point guard for UConn and wore the No. 10.
Holmes is Indiana’s all-time leading scorer with 2,530 points during her five seasons with the Hoosiers, and averaged 19.8 points per game as a senior.
Holmes announced on social media her intention to have surgery in May to address an ongoing injury to her left knee, but added she expects to be ready in time for training camp.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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