LSU guard Flau'jae Johnson has confirmed that she plans to join former teammate in the once she's ready. Johnson recently admitted the pair . However, they could soon be reunited in the WNBA with Johnson deciding she does eventually want declare for the WNBA Draft and try and follow Reese into the professional ranks.
Since Reese declared for the 2024 WNBA Draft the spotlight has been on at , and the 20-year-old now wants to make her mark on the Tigers program. after being signed by Roc Nation, but for now, her priority continues to be basketball. "I am going to choose to go to the WNBA.
I don’t know how soon...
just depending on how, you know, how my season goes and things like that," Johnson told the . The 20-year-old, who turns 21 on Nov. 3, is eligible to declare for the 2025 WNBA Draft, but it sounds like she's in no rush to leave LSU.
"I already won a national championship, but one’s not enough when I have two, two more years left maybe, you know?" she added. "I just want to I want to leave my impact, make my mark. I’m doing something like nobody has ever really done before.
So I wanted to be special." Johnson is certain that the Tigers have played a major part in boosting the popularity of women's basketball and the WNBA in particular, and wants to continue on the journey. When LSU won the 2023 national championship game the on-court beef between Reese and then-Iowa star Caitlin Clark put the spotlight on women's basketball, and has continued to shine.
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