Odds to win 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year ahead of opening night

The 2024 WNBA season will begin on Tuesday, May 14, and it will feature the most anticipated rookie class in league history. With an influx of established stars ready to make an immediate impact, we should see a very competitive race for Rookie of the Year throughout the summer.

Here’s a look at the 2024 WNBA ROY odds at the start of the regular season, courtesy of DraftKings Sportsbook.

To no surprise, Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (-800) is the heavy favorite to take home ROY at the end of the season. Taken No. 1 overall in last month’s draft, Clark is the most hyped prospect to ever enter the WNBA ranks. Her star-power exploded during her four-year collegiate career at Iowa, where she became the NCAA’s all-time scoring leader and led the Hawkeyes to back-to-back appearances in the national championship game. Now in Indiana, she will try to help turn around a Fever franchise that has not qualified for the postseason since 2016. She joins a rising roster that features last year’s ROY in center Aliyah Boston.

The Los Angeles Sparks are in rebuild mode and were able to draft two franchise cornerstones in No. 2 pick Cameron Brink (+1400) and No. 4 pick Rickea Jackson (+3500). Brink is an elite rim protector at 6’4” and averaged 17.4 points, 11.9 rebounds, and 3.7 blocks as a senior at Stanford this past season. Meanwhile, Jackson averaged 20.2 ppg as a fifth-year senior at Tennessee this past season and could quickly stamp herself as the primary scoring option for the Sparks. Both are top ROY contenders, but there’s a strong possibility that their success may cancel each other out.

The Chicago Sky are in a similar spot with Angel Reese (+3000) and Kamilla Cardoso (+3500) being brought in as potential bedrocks of the franchise. Similar to Clark, Reese established herself as a household name in college, leading LSU to a national championship in 2023. Cardoso spent two years backing up the aforementioned Boston at South Carolina before stepping into the limelight this past season, leading the Gamecocks to a national title just last month. With Cardoso at 6’7” and Clark at 6’3”, it will be interesting to see how these former SEC rivals share the paint in Chicago.