2000 WNBA draft explained

2000 WNBA draft
Sport:	Basketball
Date:	April 25, 2000
League:	WNBA
First:	Ann Wauters Cleveland Rockers
Prev:	1999
Next:	2001

2000 WNBA draft

• On December 15, 1999, a WNBA expansion draft took place.
• On April 25, 2000 the regular WNBA draft took place.

Expansion draft

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1		G	FR Yugoslavia	Indiana Fever (from Los Angeles Sparks)
2		G		Seattle Storm (from Phoenix Mercury)	Texas
3		G		Miami Sol (from Sacramento Monarchs)	Stanford
4		F		Portland Fire (from Cleveland Rockers)	Louisiana Tech
5		G		Portland Fire (from Houston Comets)	Stanford
6		G		Miami Sol (from Detroit Shock)
7		G		Seattle Storm (from New York Liberty)	Florida
8		G		Indiana Fever (from Charlotte Sting)	Purdue
9		C		Indiana Fever (from Washington Mystics)	Old Dominion
10		F		Seattle Storm (from Minnesota Lynx)	Kansas
11		G		Miami Sol (from Utah Starzz)	St. Joseph's
12		C		Portland Fire (from Orlando Miracle)	Central Florida
13		G		Portland Fire (from New York Liberty)	Notre Dame
14		F		Miami Sol (from Charlotte Sting)	North Carolina State
15		C	FR Yugoslavia	Seattle Storm (from Los Angeles Sparks)	Basket Bees Pavia
16		G		Indiana Fever (from Washington Mystics)	Connecticut
17		C		Indiana Fever (from Houston Comets)	Connecticut
18		F		Seattle Storm (from Phoenix Mercury)	Iowa
19		F		Miami Sol (from Detroit Shock)	Virginia
20		G		Portland Fire (from Sacramento Monarchs)	Stanford
21		G		Portland Fire (from Cleveland Rockers)	Stanford
22		F		Miami Sol (from Orlando Miracle)	Mississippi
23		G		Seattle Storm (from Minnesota Lynx)	Stanford
24		G		Indiana Fever (from Utah Starzz)	Auburn

College Draft

Round 1

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Ann Wauters ^+	C		Cleveland Rockers
2		C		Washington Mystics	Alabama (from Chicago Condors, ABL)
3		G		Detroit Shock (from Utah)	Texas
4		F/C		Orlando Miracle	Brazil
5		G		Minnesota Lynx (from Phoenix)	Tulane
6	Betty Lennox ^*	G		Minnesota Lynx	Louisiana Tech
7		G/F		Portland Fire	Kansas
8		G		Detroit Shock (from Utah via Miami)	Louisiana Tech
9		F/C		Seattle Storm	Gambrinus Brno
10		F		Minnesota Lynx (from Miami via Indiana)	UCLA
11		C		Charlotte Sting	North Carolina State
12		C		Utah Starzz (from Detroit)	Stanford
13		C		New York Liberty	Kansas State
14		F		Sacramento Monarchs	Stanford (from Portland Power, ABL)
15		G		Los Angeles Sparks	Nebraska
16		F/C		Houston Comets	Dynamo Moscow

Round 2

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
17		G		Cleveland Rockers	Penn State
18		G/F		Washington Mystics	Florida
19		G		Miami Sol (from Utah)	UNC Charlotte
20		F		Orlando Miracle	Purdue (from New England Blizzard, ABL)
21	Adrian Williams ^+	F/C		Phoenix Mercury
22		G		Minnesota Lynx	Rice
23		F		Portland Fire	Michigan
24		F		Minnesota Lynx (from Miami)	Texas Tech
25		G		Seattle Storm	Kansas (from New England Blizzard, ABL)
26		F	Lithuania	Indiana Fever
27		G/F		Charlotte Sting	Florida
28		G		Detroit Shock	Cincinnati
29		F		New York Liberty	Iowa State
30		G		Sacramento Monarchs	UC Santa Barbara
31		C		Los Angeles Sparks	Connecticut
32		C		Houston Comets	Penn State

Round 3

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
33		C		Cleveland Rockers	Auburn (from New England Blizzard, ABL)
34		G		Charlotte Sting (from Washington)	Louisville
35		G		Utah Starzz	Iowa State
36		G		Orlando Miracle	Rutgers
37		F		Phoenix Mercury	Illinois
38		F		Minnesota Lynx	Oklahoma
39		G		Portland Fire	Michigan State
40		G		Miami Sol	Stanford
41		F		Seattle Storm	Rice
42		G/F		Indiana Fever	Rutgers
43		G/F		Charlotte Sting	Duke
44		G/F		Detroit Shock	Vanderbilt
45		G		New York Liberty
46		C		Sacramento Monarchs
47		C		Los Angeles Sparks	Arizona
48		F		Houston Comets (traded to Indiana)	Florida State

Round 4

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School / club team
49		F/C		Cleveland Rockers	California/BTV Wuppertal
50		G		Indiana Fever (from Washington, traded to Houston)	Tennessee
51		F		Utah Starzz	Michigan State
52		G		Orlando Miracle	Gambrinus Brno
53		C		Phoenix Mercury (traded to Miami)	Kentucky
54		C		Minnesota Lynx	Saint Joseph's
55	Rhonda L. Smith	C		Portland Fire	Long Beach State
56		F		Minnesota Lynx (from Miami)	Kansas State (from Columbus Quest, ABL)
57		G		Seattle Storm	LSU
58		G		Indiana Fever (traded to Houston)	Virginia
59		C		Charlotte Sting	Louisiana Tech
60		G		Detroit Shock	Boston College
61		F		New York Liberty	Australia
62		F		Sacramento Monarchs	Saint Francis (PA)
63		G		Los Angeles Sparks
64		F		Houston Comets	Marquette

Trades

Pre-draft trades

See also

• List of first overall WNBA draft picks

References

• Web site: All-Time WNBA draft history . June 4, 2008 . WNBA . https://web.archive.org/web/20080509153954/http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html . May 9, 2008 . dead .