2022 WNBA draft

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2022 WNBA Draft
File:2022 WNBA Draft Logo.jpeg
Sport Basketball
Date April 11, 2022
League WNBA
Teams 12
← 2021 2023 →

The 2022 WNBA Draft, the WNBA's draft for the 2022 WNBA season, was held on April 11, 2022 in New York City and aired live on ESPN in the United States and on TSN1/4 in Canada at 7:00 p.m. EDT.[1] The draft was the 27th in WNBA history.

Draft lottery

The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2022 draft took place on December 19, 2021 and was televised on ESPN in the United States and on TSN2 in Canada.[2] The four non-playoff teams in 2021 qualified for the lottery drawing: Atlanta Dream, Indiana Fever, Washington Mystics, and the Los Angeles Sparks. With the Sparks having previously traded their 2022 first-round pick, their lottery pick belonged to the Dallas Wings at the time of the lottery. The Mystics won the lottery and had the first pick in the draft. This was the first time that the Mystics won the lottery in franchise history. The next three picks initially belonged to the Fever, Dream, and Wings.[3] However, by the time of the draft, the only one of the top four picks that still belonged to the same team was that of the Fever. In March 2022, the Wings included their lottery pick in a larger trade with the Fever. Less than a week before the draft, the Mystics and Dream would swap their top-three picks, with the Mystics also sending the Dream a 2022 second-round pick and the rights to swap picks with the Sparks in 2023.

Lottery chances

Team Combined 2020–2021 record Lottery chances (out of 1,000)
Indiana Fever 12–42 442
Atlanta Dream 15–39 276
Washington Mystics 21–33 178
Los Angeles Sparks 27–27 104

The lottery odds were based on combined records from the 2020 and 2021 WNBA seasons. In the drawing, 14 balls numbered 1–14 are placed in a lottery machine and mixed. Four balls are drawn to determine a four-digit combination (only 11–12–13–14 is ignored and redrawn). The team to which that four-ball combination is assigned receives the No. 1 pick. The four balls are then placed back into the machine and the process is repeated to determine the second pick. The two teams whose numerical combinations do not come up in the lottery will select in the inverse order of their two-year cumulative record. Ernst & Young knows the discreet results before they are announced.[4]

The order of selection for the remainder of the first round as well as the second and third rounds was determined by inverse order of the teams' respective regular-season records solely from 2021.

Eligibility

Under the current collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between the WNBA and its players' union, draft eligibility for players not defined as "international" requires the following to be true:[5]

  • The player's 22nd birthday falls during the calendar year of the draft. For this draft, the cutoff birth date is December 31, 2000.
  • She has either:
    • completed her college eligibility;
    • received a bachelor's degree, or is scheduled to receive such in the 3 months following the draft; or
    • is at least 4 years removed from high school graduation.

A player who is scheduled to receive her bachelor's degree within 3 months of the draft date, and is younger than the cutoff age, is only eligible if the calendar year of the draft is no earlier than the fourth after her high school graduation.

Players with remaining college eligibility who meet the cutoff age must notify the WNBA headquarters of their intent to enter the draft no later than 10 days before the draft date, and must renounce any remaining college eligibility to do so. A separate notification timetable is provided for players involved in postseason tournaments (most notably the NCAA Division I tournament); those players (normally) must declare for the draft within 24 hours of their final game.

"International players" are defined as those for whom all of the following is true:

  • Born and currently residing outside the U.S.
  • Never "exercised intercollegiate basketball eligibility" in the U.S.

For "international players", the eligibility age is 20, also measured on December 31 of the year of the draft.

Key

+ Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game

Draft

First round

Pick Player Nationality Team School / club team
1 Rhyne Howard +  United States Atlanta Dream (from Washington)[lower-alpha 1] Kentucky
2 NaLyssa Smith  United States Indiana Fever Baylor
3 Shakira Austin  United States Washington Mystics (from Atlanta)[lower-alpha 1] Ole Miss
4 Emily Engstler  United States Indiana Fever (from Los Angeles via Dallas)[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] Louisville
5 Nyara Sabally  Germany New York Liberty Oregon
6 Lexie Hull  United States Indiana Fever (from Dallas)[lower-alpha 2] Stanford
7 Veronica Burton  United States Dallas Wings (from Chicago via Dallas and Indiana)[lower-alpha 4][lower-alpha 5][lower-alpha 2] Northwestern
8 Mya Hollingshed  Puerto Rico[11] Las Vegas Aces (from Minnesota via Phoenix, New York, and Seattle)[lower-alpha 6][lower-alpha 7][lower-alpha 8][lower-alpha 9] Colorado
9 Rae Burrell  United States Los Angeles Sparks (from Seattle)[lower-alpha 10] Tennessee
10 Queen Egbo  United States Indiana Fever (from Minnesota)[lower-alpha 11] Baylor
11 Kierstan Bell  United States Las Vegas Aces Florida Gulf Coast
12 Nia Clouden  United States Connecticut Sun Michigan State

Second round

Pick Player Nationality Team School / club team
13 Khayla Pointer  United States Las Vegas Aces (from Minnesota via Indiana)[lower-alpha 6] LSU
14 Christyn Williams  United States Washington Mystics (from Atlanta)[lower-alpha 1] UConn
15 Naz Hillmon  United States Atlanta Dream (from Los Angeles)[lower-alpha 12] Michigan
16 Kianna Smith  United States Los Angeles Sparks (from Washington)[lower-alpha 13] Louisville
17 Elissa Cunane  United States Seattle Storm (from New York)[lower-alpha 8] NC State
18 Lorela Cubaj  Italy Seattle Storm (from Dallas)[lower-alpha 14] Georgia Tech
19 Olivia Nelson-Ododa  United States Los Angeles Sparks (from Chicago via Dallas)[lower-alpha 15][lower-alpha 16] UConn
20 Destanni Henderson  United States Indiana Fever (from Phoenix)[lower-alpha 17] South Carolina
21 Evina Westbrook  United States Seattle Storm UConn
22 Kayla Jones  United States Minnesota Lynx NC State
23 Aisha Sheppard  United States Las Vegas Aces Virginia Tech
24 Jordan Lewis  United States Connecticut Sun Baylor

Third round

Pick Player Nationality Team School / club team
25 Ameshya Williams-Holliday  United States Indiana Fever Jackson State
26 Maya Dodson  United States Phoenix Mercury (from Atlanta)[lower-alpha 18] Notre Dame
27 Amy Atwell  Australia Los Angeles Sparks Hawaii
28 Hannah Sjerven  United States Minnesota Lynx (from Washington)[lower-alpha 19] South Dakota
29 Sika Koné  Mali New York Liberty CB Islas Canarias (Spain)
30 Jasmine Dickey  United States Dallas Wings Delaware
31 Jazz Bond  United States Dallas Wings (from Chicago)[lower-alpha 4] North Florida
32 Macee Williams  United States Phoenix Mercury IUPUI
33 Jade Melbourne  Australia Seattle Storm Canberra Capitals (Australia)
34 Ali Patberg  United States Indiana Fever (from Minnesota)[lower-alpha 11] Indiana
35 Faustine Aifuwa  United States Las Vegas Aces LSU
36 Kiara Smith  United States Connecticut Sun Florida

Footnotes

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