2022 WNBA draft

The 2022 WNBA Draft will be the WNBA's draft for the 2022 WNBA season.

2022 WNBA Draft
General information
SportBasketball
Date(s)TBA
LocationTBA
Network(s)TBA
Overview
LeagueWNBA
Teams12

Draft lottery

The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2022 draft will take place on December 19, 2021 and will be televised on ESPN.[1] The four non-playoff teams in 2021 qualified for the lottery drawing: Atlanta Dream, Indiana Fever, Washington Mystics, and the Los Angeles Sparks. The Sparks traded their first-round pick for this draft, so ultimately their lottery pick will belong to the Dallas Wings.

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.[2]

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:[3]

  • 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.

Draft

First round
Pick Player Nationality Team School / club team
1
2
3
4
5 New York Liberty
6 Chicago Sky (from Dallas)[lower-alpha 1]
7 Dallas Wings (from Chicago)[lower-alpha 1]
8 Minnesota Lynx (from Phoenix via New York and Seattle)[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3][lower-alpha 4]
9 Seattle Storm
10 Indiana Fever (from Minnesota)[lower-alpha 5]
11 Las Vegas Aces
12 Connecticut Sun

Second round
Pick Player Nationality Team School / club team
13 Minnesota Lynx (from Indiana)[lower-alpha 5]
14 Atlanta Dream
15 Los Angeles Sparks
16 Los Angeles Sparks (from Washington)[lower-alpha 6]
17 Seattle Storm (from New York)[lower-alpha 3]
18 Seattle Storm (from Dallas)[lower-alpha 7]
19 Los Angeles Sparks (from Chicago via Dallas)[lower-alpha 8][lower-alpha 9]
20 Phoenix Mercury
21 Seattle Storm
22 Minnesota Lynx
23 Las Vegas Aces
24 Connecticut Sun

Third round
Pick Player Nationality Team School / club team
25 Indiana Fever
26 Phoenix Mercury (from Atlanta)[lower-alpha 10]
27 Los Angeles Sparks
28 Minnesota Lynx (from Washington)[lower-alpha 11]
29 New York Liberty
30 Dallas Wings
31 Dallas Wings (from Chicago)[lower-alpha 1]
32 Phoenix Mercury
33 Seattle Storm
34 Indiana Fever (from Minnesota)[lower-alpha 5]
35 Las Vegas Aces
36 Connecticut Sun

Footnotes
  1. June 2, 2021: Dallas to Chicago[4]
    • Chicago acquired Dana Evans and a 2022 first-round pick
    • Dallas acquired Shyla Heal, 2022 first- and third-round picks
  2. February 10, 2021: Phoenix to New York[5]
  3. February 10, 2021: New York to Seattle[6]
    • New York acquired Natasha Howard
    • Seattle acquired 2021 first-round and 2022 second-round picks, and Phoenix's 2022 first-round pick
  4. February 11, 2021: Seattle to Minnesota[7]
  5. February 15, 2021: Minnesota to Indiana[8]
    • Minnesota acquired Indiana's 2022 second-round pick
    • Indiana acquired Odyssey Sims, Temi Fagbenle, Minnesota's 2022 first- and third-round picks
  6. May 13, 2021: Washington to Los Angeles[9]
    • Washington acquired Sydney Wiese
    • Los Angeles acquired Washington's 2022 second-round pick
  7. February 10, 2021: Seattle to Dallas[10]
    • Seattle acquired Katie Lou Samuelson and a 2022 second-round pick
    • Dallas acquired New York's 2021 first-round pick
  8. February 9, 2021: Chicago to Dallas[11]
    • Chicago acquired a 2021 second-round pick
    • Dallas acquired Chicago's 2022 second-round pick
  9. April 14, 2021: Dallas to Los Angeles[12]
    • Dallas acquired a 2021 second-round pick
    • Los Angeles acquired a 2021 first-round pick and a 2022 second-round pick
  10. February 13, 2021: Phoenix to Atlanta[13]
    • Phoenix acquired a 2022 third-round pick
    • Atlanta acquired Yvonne Turner
  11. February 5, 2021: Minnesota to Washington[14]
    • Minnesota acquired a 2022 third-round pick
    • Washington acquired Erica McCall

References
  1. "WNBA Draft Lottery 2022 presented By State Farm To Take Place Sunday Dec. 19 On ESPN". espn.com. WNBA. December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  2. "New York Liberty Wins Top Pick In 2021 WNBA Draft Presented By State Farm". WNBA. December 4, 2020. Retrieved September 30, 2021. A representative from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young was in attendance to oversee the Lottery process.
  3. "Article XIII, Section 1: Player Eligibility" (PDF). 2020 Women's National Basketball Association Collective Bargaining Agreement. Women's National Basketball Players Association. pp. 110–111. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
  4. "Chicago Sky Acquire Dana Evans From Dallas". WNBA. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  5. "MERCURY ACQUIRES ALL-STAR WING KIA NURSE AND WING MEGAN WALKER". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  6. "New York Liberty Acquire Natasha Howard And Sami Whitcomb". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  7. "Lynx trade Mikiah Herbert Harrigan to Seattle for draft pick". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  8. "Lynx Acquire 2022 Second-Round Pick For Odyssey Sims and Temi Fagbenle". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  9. "Sparks Trade Sydney Wiese to Washington Mystics". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  10. "Storm Acquires Katie Lou Samuelson, Mikiah "Kiki" Herbert Harrigan; Rights To Stephanie Talbot And Two 2022 Draft Picks". WNBA. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  11. "Sky Acquire 2021 Second-Round Draft Pick". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  12. "Dallas Wings and Los Angeles Sparks Exchange Draft Picks". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  13. "Dream Acquire Yvonne Turner From Phoenix". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  14. "Minnesota Lynx Acquire 2022 Third-Round Draft Pick in Exchange for Forward Erica McCall". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
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