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 |
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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 | ![]() |
Washington Mystics | Alabama | |
34 | G | ![]() |
Indiana Fever (from Detroit) | Purdue | |
35 | F/C | ![]() |
Seattle Storm | Louisiana Tech | |
36 | F/C | ![]() |
Washington Mystics (from Indiana) | South Carolina | |
37 | G | ![]() |
Portland Fire | Colorado | |
38 | G | ![]() |
Minnesota Lynx | Iowa | |
39 | C | ![]() |
Orlando Miracle | Ole Miss | |
40 | Kayte Christensen | F | ![]() |
Phoenix Mercury | UC Santa Barbara |
41 | Edniesha Curry | G | ![]() |
Charlotte Sting | Oregon |
42 | G | ![]() |
Houston Comets | Alabama | |
43 | C | ![]() |
Utah Starzz | Mobile | |
44 | G | ![]() |
Sacramento Monarchs | Michigan | |
45 | F | ![]() |
Miami Sol | Iowa | |
46 | Tracy Gahan | G | ![]() |
New York Liberty | Iowa State |
47 | G/F | ![]() |
Detroit Shock (from Cleveland) | Notre Dame | |
48 | F | ![]() |
Los Angeles Sparks | Penn State |
Round 4[]
Pick | Player | Position | Nationality | Team | School / club team |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
49 | C | ![]() |
Indiana Fever (from Washington) | Arizona | |
50 | Melody Johnson | C | ![]() |
Portland Fire (from Detroit) | Arizona State |
51 | C | ![]() |
Sacramento Monarchs (from Seattle) | Saint Mary's | |
52 | G/F | ![]() |
Indiana Fever | Vanderbilt | |
53 | G | ![]() |
Portland Fire | Florida | |
54 | G | ![]() |
Minnesota Lynx | Old Dominion | |
55 | G | ![]() |
Orlando Miracle | Ohio State | |
56 | F/C | ![]() |
Phoenix Mercury | North Carolina Central | |
57 | F | ![]() |
Charlotte Sting | Wisconsin | |
58 | Cori Enghusen | C | ![]() |
Houston Comets | Stanford |
59 | G | ![]() |
Utah Starzz | Southern | |
60 | F | ![]() |
Sacramento Monarchs | Arizona | |
61 | F | ![]() |
Miami Sol | Saint Mary's | |
62 | F | ![]() |
New York Liberty | Maryland | |
63 | G | ![]() |
Cleveland Rockers | Maryland | |
64 | F | ![]() |
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