Auburn’s Honesty Scott-Grayson slides out of WNBA Draft, gets training camp invite

Former Auburn guard Honesty Scott-Grayson didn’t hear her name called during Monday night’s star-studded WNBA Draft despite being included in several mock drafts.

It left some feeling as though Scott-Grayson was snubbed.

However, while she wasn’t one of just 36 women’s basketball players to be drafted by one of the WNBA’s 12 franchises, Scott-Grayson will still have an opportunity to make a WNBA roster after accepting a training camp invite from the Washington Mystics.

With an invitation to training camp, Scott-Grayson will have an opportunity to showcase her skills in hopes of securing one of 12 roster spots with the Mystics, who used their 2024 draft picks to take UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards, Gonzaga guard Kaylynn Truong and Belgian forward Nastja Claessens.

Training camps across the WNBA will get underway April 28 and final rosters will need to be solidified by May 13 — the day before the regular season begins.

Scott-Grayson’s hopeful transition to the WNBA comes on the heels of an all-SEC-worthy campaign at Auburn.

As Auburn’s leading scorer during the 2023-24 season, Scott-Grayson averaged 17.3 points per game, making her the SEC’s fourth-leading scorer and earning her a spot on the all-SEC team as a first-teamer. Scott-Grayson also averaged 4.2 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game in her final season on The Plains.

Should Scott-Grayson make the Mystics’ roster after training camp, it’ll have been a long time coming.

Rated as a 5-star point guard and a McDonald’s All-American in 2018, Scott-Grayson initially took her talents to Baylor, where current LSU head coach Kim Mulkey was still coaching at the time.

Ultimately, things didn’t work out in Waco, Texas, so Scott-Grayson decided to transfer and ended up landing at Auburn, where Johnnie Harris, who had recruited Scott-Grayson since she was just an eighth grader, was taking over the Tigers’ program.

And Scott-Grayson was all Auburn, all the way for the rest of her college career.

All throughout the 2023-24 season, Harris wasn’t shy about the reality of it — Scott-Grayson could’ve made the decision to turn pro the season prior.

But Scott-Grayson had other plans.

“She actually came into my office before I could get to her,” Harris said. “(She) said, ‘Coach, I want to run it back.’ She said, ‘I really believe we can be special, and I want to help this team get to the NCAA Tournament.’”

And during this past season, Scott-Grayson did just that as she played a huge role in helping lead the Tigers to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2019.

“She said she wanted to make sure this team got back to the NCAA Tournament. She knew that that was a goal of mine, that was a vision and she wanted to help to do that,” Harris added.

While Auburn made its way to the NCAA Tournament, the Tigers’ run was brief as they were bounced by Arizona in the play-in round on March 21.

But with the appearance, paired with her three seasons on The Plains, Scott-Grayson made her mark on the Tigers’ program.

And from this past season on, as Harris continues to rite the ship on The Plains, it’ll be hard to talk about the rise of Auburn women’s basketball without talking about Scott-Grayson.