WNBA mock draft 2022, version 6.0 — Atlanta Dream are on the clock, Indiana Fever ready to rebuild

With four picks in the first round, and seven selections overall in the 2022 WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever are looking to transform themselves. And once Monday’s draft (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) is complete, the next phase of the Fever will have begun.

“We’re going to rebuild with young players,” said Lin Dunn, the former Indiana head coach who took over as the franchise’s general manager in February. “Everybody’s going to play hard, everybody’s going to work hard, everybody’s going to be high energy, hungry to play.”

The Fever have picks Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 10 in the first round Monday. They also have No. 20 in the second round and Nos. 25 and 34 in the third. This is a new challenge for Dunn, who coached the Fever to their 2012 WNBA championship. She hoped when she came on in an advisory capacity in late 2021 that she would be helping former Fever star Tamika Catchings in the rebuild.

But Catchings stepped down in February, and Dunn was moved into the role of architect for a team that hasn’t had a winning record since 2015, when the Fever lost in the WNBA Finals. They were .500 in 2016, and have had losing records in the five seasons since.

Coach Marianne Stanley, who is entering her third season with the Fever, and Dunn hope to give Indiana a change in identity. They need this draft to help ignite that.

“I’ve got a three-year plan in my mind,” Dunn said. “Obviously, looking at our roster, we need bigs, post help, 4s and 5s. We’re thin there. There’s no reason why I can’t get some bigs that can defend and run and score.”

Dunn and Stanley, who was recently announced as a 2022 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, have known each…