The NBA Draft is a system of recruiting a new batch of players to the NBA. The teams with the worst season record in the previous season will have the priority to select any players declaring for the draft with the top picks, while the teams with the best record will have the last picks. The NBA Draft is annually held in the month of June or July.
Caitlin Clark, a 6 foot 22-year-old female college basketball wonder from the University of Iowa, is considered to be the greatest female college basketball athlete of all time. She has broken the record of the most points scored in college basketball history (both women and men category), winning three international gold medals as a part of Team USA, and is expected to be the next face of the WNBA upon her graduation this upcoming May. Clark is a global phenom, drawing massive national and international attention to the previously underrepresented women basketball. This phenomenon is then known as the "Caitlin Clark effect".
There is no rule in the NBA forbidding women athletes to play in the league. However, only one woman athlete, Luisa Harris, was ever drafted to the NBA in 1977, and she didn't play a game in the NBA due to pregnancy. Therefore, de facto, there has never been any woman athlete to play a game in the NBA.