If you’re not following EuroLeague Women on YouTube, you should be. I love that you can find the games streamed live there, and their highlight videos are very well done. I’m going to be sad next year when the games are on some streaming service I don’t have, and it will be far more difficult to watch. Until that happens, I’m going to continue to watch as much as I can, with an eye towards the players who could make a difference in the WNBA, if they actually have a season. Here are four EuroLeague players who have caught my eye this season.

Sevgi Uzun, Fenerbahce Opet

I think Uzun is one of the players who will benefit from WNBA expansion. I don’t think she’ll ever be a starter in this league, but she helped stabilize a Sky team in desperate need of competent point guard play in the second half of the season. As the league adds more teams, a solid backup point guard who averages 5.2 assists per 36 minutes, as Uzun has in each of her WNBA seasons, will be increasingly hard to find.

On the surface, the 28-year-old is the same player she has always been. Her averages of 6.8 PPG, 1.0 RPG and 3.6 APG are nearly identical to last Euroleague season. What has changed is her three-point shooting. Uzun is seventh in Euroleague in three-point percentage at 41.4 percent, making 12 of her 29 attempts. That is an admittedly small sample, but it is just better than the 5-for-30 she shot in 25 WNBA games last season. If she can just get to the point where she has to be guarded at the three-point line, it would open up her entire game. An improved three-point shot would be especially vital if she returns to the Sky, who were 12th in three-point attempts and ninth in three-point percentage last season. If she could just make enough threes so that opponents would have to think twice before double-teaming Angel Reese or Kamilla Cardoso in the paint, that would be extremely valuable.

Maria Conde, Beretta Famila Schio

Conde was selected by the Golden State Valkyries in the expansion draft after she was drafted in the third round by the Chicago Sky in 2019. Conde missed all of the 2025 WNBA season with an Achilles injury, though it is unclear if she would have come over even if she were healthy.

Conde is on this list because she is healthy now. She is third in the EuroLeague in assists per game, and along with Lynx forward Jessica Shepard, has led Beretta Famila Schio to the quarter-final play-in. She has always prioritized playing for Spain in the summer, but one under-discussed aspect of the new CBA, whenever there is one, is that it will be far more lucrative for European players to come play in the W when their national team obligations are over. Golden State’s depth was a strength in 2025 but it could get depleted between the two-team expansion draft and free agency. Conde has proven with her Euroleague play that she can contribute if the Valkyries can convince her to come over.

Leila Lacan, Basket Landes

Lacan was the third rookie drafted on the third-worst team in the WNBA, and as such, I think her rookie season got severely overlooked. She was arguably Connecticut’s best rookie, averaging 10.4 points, 2.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists per game. Her 2.2 steals per game were second in the WNBA, behind only Gabby Williams. I highlighted Lacan as one of my per 36-minute All-Stars, but I may have undersold her.

Or perhaps, at just 21 years old, she is just getting better. Lacan is ninth in the Euroleague in points per game, eighth in free throw percentage, and sixth in steals per game. Most importantly, like Maria Conde, Lacan has shot the ball much better from three in Euroleague, shooting 41.5 percent on 3.4 attempts per game after she shot just 22.4 percent on 2.7 threes per game with Connecticut.

In her recent game against Fenerbahce Opet, I thought her three-point shooting basically kept her team in the game against the European powerhouse. She looked much more comfortable pulling on catch-and-shoot threes than she did with Connecticut. In the W, I watched her dribble out of open looks or take forever to load up her shot. Against Fener, she was looking for her shot with even a little bit of space. And when her gravity drew the attention of the other team, she did a great job of finding open teammates. 

Lacan still doesn’t get all the way to the rim much, even in Europe, but she was arguably the best player on the court against a Fenerbahce team that played six WNBA players and Sevgi Uzun. Lacan was named EuroLeague Women MVP for January, with 20.7 points, 2.3 assists and 2.0 steals per game in the month. I don’t know if she’ll ever be a WNBA All-Star but I’m starting to think she can be a quality starter as soon as next season. We’ll see what Connecticut does in the offseason, but between Lacan’s play in Europe and Aaliyah Edwards filling the stat sheet in Unrivaled, I’m starting to think they could be surprisingly competitive in 2026.

Ivana Dojkic, Umana Reyer Venezia

The Liberty have Dojkic’s rights after she played for them in 2024 and sat out the 2025 WNBA season. I think Dojkic could be selected in the expansion draft, though the Liberty have several candidates who may not be protected, including Raquel Carrera, Marine Fauthoux, Rebekah Gardner, Han Xu and Nyara Sabally.

Dojkic isn’t the fastest player off the dribble or on defense, but she is a confident shooter off the dribble, especially in the midrange. She has shot 40.2 percent on threes in two WNBA seasons, and that alone makes her a valuable WNBA player. She’ll need to improve her two-point shooting to be a difference-maker in the WNBA, but I have been very impressed with her midrange shooting and her finishing around the basket in the EuroLeague. The more I watch, the more I think she is ready for a bigger role, either for the Liberty or one of the expansion teams.