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2010 WNBA draft

2010 meeting of WNBA teams to select players

Field	Value
name	2010 WNBA draft
image	2010 WNBA Draft.png
sport	Basketball
date	December 14, 2009 – April 8, 2010
location	Secaucus, New Jersey
network	ESPN2, NBATV, ESPNU
league	WNBA
first	Tina Charles
Connecticut Sun
merging_teams	Sacramento Monarchs
(folded in 2009)
prev	[2009](2009-wnba-draft)
next	[2011](2011-wnba-draft)

Connecticut Sun (folded in 2009)

The 2010 WNBA draft is the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The draft was held on April 8, 2010. The first round was shown on ESPN2 (HD), while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.

A lottery was held on November 5, 2009. The Minnesota Lynx received the first overall selection of the draft. The Sacramento Monarchs received the number two selection. The Connecticut Sun came up with the third overall selection, followed by the Minnesota Lynx again at four, and the Chicago Sky at number five.

Additionally, on December 14, 2009, the WNBA held a dispersal draft to re-assign players from the Sacramento Monarchs who folded at the end of 2009 WNBA season. Since the Monarchs folded after the draft lottery took place, their pick was simply eliminated.

Draft lottery

The lottery selection to determine the order of the top five picks in the 2010 Draft occurred on November 5, 2009, the Minnesota Lynx won the first pick, while the Sacramento Monarchs and Connecticut Sun were awarded the second and third picks respectively. The remaining first-round picks and all the second- and third-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss records in the previous season.

Below were the chances for each team to get specific picks in the 2010 draft lottery, rounded to three decimal places{{efn|Notes:

Team selected for the No. 1 pick noted in bold text
Shaded block denotes actual lottery result}}:

Team	[2009
record](2009-wnba-season)	Lottery
chances	Pick	1st		2nd		3rd	4th	5th
Sacramento Monarchs	12–22	420	.420	.302
Minnesota Lynx (from New York via Los Angeles){{efn	May 5, 2009: Three-team trade among Los Angeles, Minnesota, and New York	13–21	261	.261	.284
Minnesota Lynx	14–20	167	.167	.207
Connecticut Sun	16–18	78	.076	.103
Chicago Sky	16–18	78	.076	.103

Transactions

January 30, 2009: The Washington Mystics receive the second-round pick from the Minnesota Lynx as part of the Lindsey Harding transaction.
March 26, 2009: The Los Angeles Sparks receive the first-round pick from the Phoenix Mercury as part of the Temeka Johnson transaction.
May 5, 2009: The Minnesota Lynx receive the first-round pick from the New York Liberty (via L.A.) as part of the Sidney Spencer/Noelle Quinn transaction.
November 20, 2009: The league announces the folding of the Sacramento Monarchs. The Monarchs' picks in the draft were simply eliminated.
January 12, 2010: The Connecticut Sun receive the first overall pick in exchange for the second overall pick from the Minnesota Lynx as part of the Lindsay Whalen/Renee Montgomery transaction. Source

Key

Draft

Round 1

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Tina Charles *		Connecticut Sun (from New York via Los Angeles and Minnesota)	Connecticut
2	Monica Wright	Minnesota Lynx (from Connedcticut)	Virginia
3	Kelsey Griffin (traded to Connecticut)	Minnesota Lynx	Nebraska
4	Epiphanny Prince *	Chicago Sky	Rutgers/Turkey
5	Jayne Appel	San Antonio Silver Stars	Stanford
6	Jacinta Monroe	Washington Mystics	Florida State
7	Danielle McCray	Connecticut Sun (from Tulsa)	Kansas
8	Andrea Riley	Los Angeles Sparks	Oklahoma State
9	Chanel Mokango	DR Congo	Atlanta Dream	Mississippi State
10	Alison Lacey		Seattle Storm	Iowa State
11	Jené Morris		Indiana Fever	San Diego State
12	Bianca Thomas #	Los Angeles Sparks (from Phoenix)	Ole Miss

Round 2

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
13	Kalana Greene		New York Liberty	Connecticut
14	Jenna Smith #	Washington Mystics (from Minnesota)	Illinois
15	Allison Hightower +	Connecticut Sun	LSU
16	Ashley Houts	New York Liberty (from Chicago)	Georgia
17	Alysha Clark	Israel /	San Antonio Silver Stars	Middle Tennessee
18	Shanavia Dowdell #		Washington Mystics	Louisiana Tech
19	Amanda Thompson	Tulsa Shock	Oklahoma
20	Angel Robinson	Los Angeles Sparks	Georgia
21	Brigitte Ardossi #	Australia	Atlanta Dream	Georgia Tech
22	Tanisha Smith #		Seattle Storm	Texas A&M
23	Armelie Lumanu #	DR Congo	Indiana Fever	Mississippi State
24	Tyra Grant #		Phoenix Mercury	Penn State

Round 3

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
25	Cory Montgomery #		New York Liberty	Nebraska
26	Gabriela Marginean	Romania	Minnesota Lynx	Drexel
27	Johannah Leedham #	Great Britain	Connecticut Sun	Franklin Pierce
28	Abi Olajuwon		Chicago Sky	Oklahoma
29	Alexis Rack #	San Antonio Silver Stars	Mississippi State
30	Alexis Gray-Lawson	Washington Mystics	California
31	Vivian Frieson #	Tulsa Shock	Gonzaga
32	Rashidat Junaid #	Los Angeles Sparks	Rutgers
33	Brittainey Raven	Atlanta Dream	Texas
34	Tijana Krivačević #	/	Seattle Storm	MKB Euroleasing Sopron (Hungary)
35	Joy Cheek		Indiana Fever	Duke
36	Nyeshia Stevenson #	Phoenix Mercury	Oklahoma

References

(December 14, 2009). "Sacramento Monarchs Dispersal Draft Analysis".
(November 9, 2009). "Minnesota Lynx Win Top Pick in 2010 WNBA Draft". WNBA.
(May 5, 2009). "Sparks Acquire L.A. Native Noelle Quinn". WNBA.
"2009 WNBA Transactions".

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