Friday marks a big day for the WNBA.

It’s the WNBA Draft, but it’s not just any WNBA Draft. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this will be a virtual draft. The first of its kind for any major sports league.

The NFL will follow later this month, but the WNBA will be on the clock first.

The advice for all teams going into the draft is to get really good Wi-Fi if they don’t already. As we’ve all learned from virtual meetings, someone with a bad internet connection makes everything worse.

For the Minnesota Lynx, they’ll have the No. 6 pick for the second-straight season. It’s safe to say that last year’s pick of Napheesa Collier worked out pretty well. Collier was named Rookie of the Year and instead of being a rotational player, which is what most teams look for with a mid-first-round pick, the Lynx seemed to have found a cornerstone player.

Can they make it two years in a row?

We’ll see. Lynx GM and coach Cheryl Reeve addressed the media via Zoom on Tuesday to discuss all things draft.

Here’s a rundown of some of the things you need to know:

How Do The Lynx Plan On Drafting?

It’s funny how this is a more fascinating question than who the Lynx plan on drafting.

It’s going to be a weird draft, that’s for sure. There won’t be a room with all the likely first-round picks and their families. I’ll certainly miss that, but I am interested in how each team plans on communicating through the draft.

For the Lynx, Reeve said they will be using Microsoft Teams throughout the night. She’ll be communicating with assistant coaches Katie Smith, Rebekkah Brunson and Plenette Pierson, along with Assistant GM Clare Duwelius.

While the Lynx are doing everything to make sure things go smoothly on Friday, Reeve will still miss those war-room moments.

“The interpersonal conversations that we all miss from when you are making decisions, it’s hard looking at a computer and kind of having that,” Reeve said. “ . . . Again, I’d rather have in-person, but we are where we are.”

Will ESPN have cell phone feeds of players and their families celebrating after picks? Will Reeve have a feed on herself as she’s on the laptop making her pick?

And, perhaps the most important question, how many people making picks online will wear the oh-so-popular dress shirt and sweatpants combo?

Best Player Available vs. Team Need

From the outside, this draft seems like it could play out numerous ways. After the top four picks, there are a lot of different scenarios that could play out which could spice things up for the Lynx at No. 6.

The ‘best player available vs. team need’ question is one every team needs to answer. What if a higher-rated player is on the board but the team might not necessarily need that position?

Reeve was asked what her team’s position on that this year will be, and she didn’t really show much of her hand.

“That’s kind of a tough question to answer,” Reeve said. “That would be some serious inside information, and I know that everyone is going to be paying attention to anything that comes out of this interview. We still have to kind of keep that more defined information a little bit closer to the vest as we move closer to the draft. We don’t want to tip our hand to our competitors.”

Players expected to be in consideration at No. 6 include Tyasha Harris, Crystal Dangerfield and Megan Walker. But what if Reeve and the Lynx have a higher grade on someone like Ruthy Hebard, who doesn’t necessarily fill an instant need?

I don’t know the answer to that and that likely won’t come until Friday evening.

Point Guard, Point Guard, Point Guard . . .

If you are looking for an area of need for the Lynx, the point guard position is probably the most obvious choice. Danielle Robinson signed with the Aces this offseason.

Even with that, it doesn’t sound like Reeve is committed to taking a point guard with that sixth-overall pick just because the 2020 Lynx are in need of that position.

And even if the Lynx decide to draft someone like Harris or Dangerfield, Reeve isn’t convinced they’d be starters from the get-go, especially with a likely shortened training camp and preseason.

“I don’t think that you’re going to see a rookie point guard starting for the Lynx in 2020,” Reeve said. “I’m actually pretty sure of that. But again, maybe something presents itself and we end up having a rookie point guard, I don’t know.”

The Lynx might not have to choose between best player available or positional value. Harris and Dangerfield are both projected to go in the middle of the first round. Maybe someone like Walker, who has a little bit of Collier in her, is available at six.

We’ll see. Reeve said that this year’s draft feels more predictable than it did in 2019, so there’s a decent chance Reeve already knows who is going to be available at six.

She’ll just have to make sure her internet connection is strong enough to make the pick.