UCLA Women's Basketball: Mercury Coach Reflects on Charisma Osborne Falling in Draft

UCLA Women's Basketball: Mercury Coach Reflects on Charisma Osborne Falling in Draft Nate Tibbetts discusses drafting the ex-Bruin. Author: Alex Kirschenbaum May 01, 2024 In this story: Charisma Osborne UCLA phoenix mercury Ahead of the 2024 WNBA Draft, former UCLA Bruins All-Pac-12 shooting guard Charisma Osborne was seen as a potential late first round or early second round selection by a variety of pundits and mock drafts. But teams, evidently, did not agree. The 5-foot-9 Fontana native survived all the way till the third round this year. She was selected with the No. 25 pick by the Phoenix Mercury (the first pick of the third round), a once-proud club that has fallen on lean times in recent