2002 WNBA draft
2002 WNBA draft | |
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General information | |
Sport | Basketball |
Date(s) | April 19, 2002 |
Overview | |
League | WNBA |
First selection | Sue Bird Seattle Storm |
The 2002 WNBA draft was the first to implement a lottery that arranges the order of the first four overall picks. The lottery gave four teams with the identically worst record of 10–22 from the 2001 season an equal chance to own the first overall selection, which the Seattle Storm did.[1]
Four of the top six draft picks, Sue Bird (#1), Swin Cash (#2), Asjha Jones (#4) and Tamika (Williams) Raymond (#6) were from the same team, the 2002 NCAA champion University of Connecticut.
Key[]
G | Guard | F | Forward | C | Center |
+ | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game |
Draft selections[]
Round 1[]
Round 2[]
Round 3[]
Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | School / club team |
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33 | C | United States | Washington Mystics | Alabama | |
34 | G | United States | Indiana Fever (from Detroit) | Purdue | |
35 | F/C | United States | Seattle Storm | Louisiana Tech | |
36 | F/C | United States | Washington Mystics (from Indiana) | South Carolina | |
37 | G | United States | Portland Fire | Colorado | |
38 | G | United States | Minnesota Lynx | Iowa | |
39 | C | United States | Orlando Miracle | Ole Miss | |
40 | Kayte Christensen | F | United States | Phoenix Mercury | UC Santa Barbara |
41 | Edniesha Curry | G | United States | Charlotte Sting | Oregon |
42 | G | United States | Houston Comets | Alabama | |
43 | C | United States | Utah Starzz | Mobile | |
44 | G | United States | Sacramento Monarchs | Michigan | |
45 | F | United States | Miami Sol | Iowa | |
46 | Tracy Gahan | G | United States | New York Liberty | Iowa State |
47 | G/F | United States | Detroit Shock (from Cleveland) | Notre Dame | |
48 | F | United States | Los Angeles Sparks | Penn State |
Round 4[]
Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | School / club team |
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49 | C | United States | Indiana Fever (from Washington) | Arizona | |
50 | Melody Johnson | C | United States | Portland Fire (from Detroit) | Arizona State |
51 | C | United States | Sacramento Monarchs (from Seattle) | Saint Mary's | |
52 | G/F | United States | Indiana Fever | Vanderbilt | |
53 | G | United States | Portland Fire | Florida | |
54 | G | United States | Minnesota Lynx | Old Dominion | |
55 | G | United States | Orlando Miracle | Ohio State | |
56 | F/C | United States | Phoenix Mercury | North Carolina Central | |
57 | F | United States | Charlotte Sting | Wisconsin | |
58 | Cori Enghusen | C | United States | Houston Comets | Stanford |
59 | G | United States | Utah Starzz | Southern | |
60 | F | United States | Sacramento Monarchs | Arizona | |
61 | F | United States | Miami Sol | Saint Mary's | |
62 | F | United States | New York Liberty | Maryland | |
63 | G | United States | Cleveland Rockers | Maryland | |
64 | F | United States | Los Angeles Sparks | Old Dominion |
UConn Fab Four[]
Connecticut Huskies players Tamika Williams, Sue Bird, Asjha Jones and Swin Cash were all selected in the first round of the draft. Each player had immediate impacts with their 2002 WNBA Teams. Cash, Bird and Williams accounted for 21.3, 19.9 and 17.3 percent, respectively, of their teams’ total points, rebounds and assists. Jones, a reserve, posted 8.8 percent of the Mystics' total output in those three key categories.[2]
References[]
- ^ "History of the WNBA Draft Lottery". wnba.com.
- ^ "Connecticut's Fab Four Makes Pro Basketball History". wnba.com. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
- "All-Time WNBA Draft List". WNBA. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2008.
- WNBA Draft: Pick-by-pick at ESPN.com
- Women's National Basketball Association Draft
- 2002 WNBA season