2011 WNBA draft

The 2011 WNBA draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 11, 2011 at the ESPN studios in Bristol, Connecticut. The first round was shown on ESPN (HD), while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.

2011 WNBA draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date(s)	April 11, 2011
Location	Bristol, Connecticut
Network(s)	ESPN, NBATV, ESPNU
Overview
League	WNBA
First selection	Maya Moore Minnesota Lynx
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Draft lottery

The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2011 draft occurred on November 2, 2010. The Minnesota Lynx won the first pick, while the Tulsa Shock, Chicago Sky and Lynx were awarded the second, third and fourth picks respectively. The remaining first-round picks and all the second- and third-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss records in the previous season.

Below were the chances for each team to get specific picks in the 2010 draft lottery, rounded to three decimal places:

Team	2010 record	Lottery chances	Pick
			1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Tulsa Shock	6–28	442	.442	.316	.181	.062
Minnesota Lynx	13–21	276	.276	.310	.270	.144
Chicago Sky	14–20	178	.178	.230	.317	.275
Minnesota Lynx (from Conn.)	17–17	104	.104	.145	.232	.520
Shaded block denotes actual lottery result.

Invited players

The WNBA announced on April 6, 2011 that 15 players had been invited to attend the draft. Unless indicated otherwise, all players listed are Americans who played at U.S. colleges.^[1]

• Danielle Adams, Texas A&M
• Jessica Breland, North Carolina
• Liz Cambage, Bulleen Boomers (Australia)
• Sydney Colson, Texas A&M
• Victoria Dunlap, Kentucky
• Amber Harris, Xavier
• Jantel Lavender, Ohio State
• Maya Moore, Connecticut
• Kayla Pedersen, Stanford
• Ta'Shia Phillips, Xavier
• Jeanette Pohlen, Stanford
• Danielle Robinson, Oklahoma
• Carolyn Swords, Boston College
• Jasmine Thomas, Duke
• Courtney Vandersloot, Gonzaga

Transactions

• March 11, 2010: Atlanta and San Antonio swap second-round picks as part of the Michelle Snow transaction.
• April 7, 2010: Connecticut receives a second-round pick from Tulsa as part of the Chante Black/Amber Holt transaction.
• April 8, 2010: Minnesota receives Connecticut's first-round pick and Tulsa's second-round pick from Connecticut as part of the Kelsey Griffin transaction.
• May 13, 2010: Chicago receives a second-round pick from Los Angeles as part of the Kristi Toliver transaction.
• May 27, 2010: Tulsa receives a second-round pick from Indiana as part of the Shavonte Zellous transaction.
• July 23, 2010: Tulsa receives a first-round pick from Phoenix as part of the Kara Braxton/Nicole Ohlde transaction.

Source^[2]

Key

*	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-WNBA Team
+	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game
Bold	Denotes player who won Rookie of the Year

Draft selections

Round 1

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Maya Moore +	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Connecticut
2	Liz Cambage +	Australia	Tulsa Shock	Bulleen Boomers (Australia)
3	Courtney Vandersloot +	United States	Chicago Sky	Gonzaga
4	Amber Harris	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Conn.)	Xavier
5	Jantel Lavender +	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Ohio State
6	Danielle Robinson +	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Oklahoma
7	Kayla Pedersen	United States	Tulsa Shock (from Phx.)	Stanford
8	Ta'Shia Phillips	United States	Atlanta Dream (traded to Wash.)	Xavier
9	Jeanette Pohlen	United States	Indiana Fever	Stanford
10	Alex Montgomery	United States	New York Liberty	Georgia Tech
11	Victoria Dunlap	United States	Washington Mystics	Kentucky
12	Jasmine Thomas +	United States	Seattle Storm	Duke

Round 2

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
13	Jessica Breland +	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Tul. via Conn.; traded to N.Y.)	North Carolina
14	Felicia Chester	United States	Minnesota Lynx (traded to Atl.)	DePaul
15	Carolyn Swords	United States	Chicago Sky	Boston College
16	Sydney Colson	United States	Connecticut Sun (traded to N.Y.)	Texas A&M
17	Angie Bjorklund	United States	Chicago Sky (from L.A.)	Tennessee
18	Rachel Jarry	Australia	Atlanta Dream (from S.A.; traded to Minn.)	Bulleen Boomers (Australia)
19	Brittany Spears	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Colorado
20	Danielle Adams	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars (from Atl.)	Texas A&M
21	Italee Lucas	United States	Tulsa Shock (from Ind.)	North Carolina
22	Angel Robinson	United States	New York Liberty (traded to Minn.)	Marquette
23	Karima Christmas	United States	Washington Mystics	Duke
24	Ify Ibekwe	United States	Seattle Storm	Arizona

Round 3

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
25	Chastity Reed	United States	Tulsa Shock	Arkansas–Little Rock
26	Kachine Alexander	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Iowa
27	Amy Jaeschke	United States	Chicago Sky	Northwestern
28	Adrienne Johnson	United States	Connecticut Sun	Louisiana Tech
29	Elina Babkina (pick later voided)	Latvia	Los Angeles Sparks	Lotos VBW Clima Gdynia (Poland)
30	Porsha Phillips	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Georgia
31	Tahnee Robinson	United States	Phoenix Mercury (traded to Conn.)	Nevada
32	Kelsey Bolte	United States	Atlanta Dream	Iowa State
33	Jori Davis	United States	Indiana Fever	Indiana
34	Mekia Valentine	United States	New York Liberty	UC Santa Barbara
35	Sara Krnjić	Serbia	Washington Mystics	Pécs 2010 (Hungary)
36	Krystal Thomas	United States	Seattle Storm	Duke

See also

• List of first overall WNBA draft picks

References

1. "Top Prospects Invited to Attend WNBA Draft" (Press release). Women's National Basketball Association. April 6, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
2. http://www.wnba.com/transactions/WNBA_2010.html 2010 WNBA Transactions

• "All-Time WNBA Draft List". WNBA. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008.

External links

• 2011 WNBA draft board