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2014 WNBA season

Field	Value
title	2014 WNBA season
league	Women's National Basketball Association
sport	Basketball
duration	May 16 – September 12, 2014
no_of_games	34
no_of_teams	12
attendance	1,545,890
average_attendance	7,578
TV	ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, NBA TV
top_pick	USA Chiney Ogwumike
picked_by	Connecticut Sun
MVP	USA Maya Moore (Minnesota)
conf1	Eastern
conf1_link	Eastern Conference (WNBA)
conf1_champ	Chicago Sky
conf1_runner-up	Indiana Fever
conf2	Western
conf2_link	Western Conference (WNBA)
conf2_champ	Phoenix Mercury
conf2_runner-up	Minnesota Lynx
finals_champ	Phoenix Mercury
finals_runner-up	Chicago Sky
finals_MVP	USA Diana Taurasi (Phoenix)
seasonslist	List of WNBA seasons
seasonslistnames	WNBA
prevseason_link	2013 WNBA season
prevseason_year	2013
nextseason_link	2015 WNBA season
nextseason_year	2015

| conf1_runner-up = Indiana Fever | conf2_runner-up = Minnesota Lynx | finals_runner-up = Chicago Sky

The 2014 WNBA season was the 18th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. The season started in May and concluded in September to accommodate the 2014 Women's World Championship.

Notable occurrences

The New York Liberty returned to the renovated Madison Square Garden after three years of playing at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
Indiana Fever head coach Lin Dunn announced her retirement on May 8; effective at the end of the season.

Draft

Main article: 2014 WNBA draft

On December 12, 2013, the 2014 WNBA Draft Lottery took place. The Connecticut Sun, who had a league-worst record of 10-24 last season, won the draft lottery and had the right to pick first in the 2014 draft. In the draft, held on April 14, the Sun made Chiney Ogwumike of Stanford University the top pick.

Media coverage

Games aired on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC and NBA TV. The Washington Mystics made history in May 2014 when they debuted Kiswe Mobile's Mystics Live and became the first U.S. professional sports team to stream live games within the venue via a mobile application.

Regular season

The timing of the 2014 WNBA schedule and the draft were not finalized at its normal timeframe, as the league and players were negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement during the 2013 season. The previous agreement expired during the 2013 WNBA Finals and a new CBA was reached on February 17, 2014.

On February 6, 2014, the 2014 regular season schedule was announced. The regular season schedule began on May 16 and concluded on August 17.

It was announced on January 22 that the 2014 WNBA All-Star Game would take place on July 19 at 3:00 PM EDT in Phoenix, Arizona.

Standings

;Eastern Conference ;Western Conference

Playoffs

Main article: 2014 WNBA playoffs

Awards

Reference:

Individual

Award	Winner	Team	Position	Votes/Statistic
Most Valuable Player (MVP)	Maya Moore	Minnesota Lynx	Forward	35 out of 38
Finals MVP	Diana Taurasi	Phoenix Mercury	Guard
Rookie of the Year	Chiney Ogwumike	Connecticut Sun	Forward	23 out of 38
Most Improved Player	Skylar Diggins	Tulsa Shock	Guard	29 out of 38
Defensive Player of the Year	Brittney Griner	Phoenix Mercury	Center	31 out of 38
Sixth Woman of the Year	Allie Quigley	Chicago Sky	Guard	26 out of 38
Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award	Becky Hammon	San Antonio Stars	Guard	24 out of 37
Peak Performers	Scoring	Maya Moore	Minnesota Lynx	Forward
Rebounding	Courtney Paris	Tulsa Shock	Center	10.2 RPG
Assists	Diana Taurasi	Phoenix Mercury	Guard	5.6 APG
Coach of the Year	Sandy Brondello	Phoenix Mercury	Coach	33 out of 38

Team

Award	Guard	Guard	Forward	Forward	Center
All-WNBA	First Team	Skylar Diggins	Diana Taurasi	Maya Moore	Candace Parker
Second Team	Danielle Robinson	Seimone Augustus	Angel McCoughtry	Nneka Ogwumike	Tina Charles
Lindsay Whalen
All-Defensive	First Team	Briann January	Tanisha Wright	Angel McCoughtry	Sancho Lyttle
Second Team	Danielle Robinson	Alana Beard	Maya Moore	Tamika Catchings	Sylvia Fowles
All-Rookie Team	Odyssey Sims	Bria Hartley	Kayla McBride	Alyssa Thomas	Chiney Ogwumike

Players of the Week

Week ending	Eastern Conference	Western Conference	Ref.	Player
May 25	Elena Delle Donne	Chicago Sky	Maya Moore	Minnesota Lynx
June 1	Briann January	Indiana Fever	Lindsay Whalen
June 8	Erika de Souza	Atlanta Dream	Diana Taurasi	Phoenix Mercury
June 15	Alex Bentley	Connecticut Sun	Skylar Diggins	Tulsa Shock
June 22	Angel McCoughtry	Atlanta Dream	Brittney Griner	Phoenix Mercury
June 29	Sancho Lyttle	Nneka Ogwumike	Los Angeles Sparks
July 6	Tina Charles	New York Liberty	Diana Taurasi (2)	Phoenix Mercury
July 13	Angel McCoughtry (2)	Atlanta Dream	Maya Moore (5)	Minnesota Lynx
July 18	Tamika Catchings	Indiana Fever
July 27	Ivory Latta	Washington Mystics
August 3	Tina Charles (2)	New York Liberty
August 10	Allie Quigley	Chicago Sky	Brittney Griner (2)	Phoenix Mercury
August 17	Shoni Schimmel	Atlanta Dream	Kristi Toliver	Los Angeles Sparks

Players of the Month

Month	Eastern Conference	Western Conference	Ref.	Player
May	Elena Delle Donne	Chicago Sky	Maya Moore	Minnesota Lynx
June	Angel McCoughtry	Atlanta Dream	Diana Taurasi	Phoenix Mercury
July	Tina Charles	New York Liberty	Maya Moore (3)	Minnesota Lynx
August	Tamika Catchings	Indiana Fever

Rookies of the Month

Month	Player	Team
May	Chiney Ogwumike (2)	[Connecticut Sun](2014-connecticut-sun-season)
June
July	Odyssey Sims (2)	[Tulsa Shock](2014-tulsa-shock-season)
August

Coaches

Eastern Conference

Atlanta Dream: Michael Cooper
Chicago Sky: Pokey Chatman
Connecticut Sun: Anne Donovan
Indiana Fever: Lin Dunn
New York Liberty: Bill Laimbeer
Washington Mystics: Mike Thibault

Western Conference

Los Angeles Sparks: Carol Ross and Penny Toler
Minnesota Lynx: Cheryl Reeve
Phoenix Mercury: Sandy Brondello
San Antonio Stars: Dan Hughes
Seattle Storm: Jenny Boucek
Tulsa Shock: Fred Williams

References

"2014 Draft Watch: Grand Marshall".
(April 14, 2014). "2014 WNBA Draft Board". WNBA.
Ourand, John. (June 16, 2014). "Mystics streaming live games to mobile app". [[Sports Business Journal]].
Tanklefsky, David. (June 30, 2014). "WNBA Breaks New Ground With Free In-Market Live Streaming". [[Promax Awards.
[http://www.swishappeal.com/2013/10/6/4801380/open-thread-wnba-finals-game-1 Open Thread: WNBA Finals Game 1 and NFL Sunday Night Football at 8:30 PM ET]
"WNBA, WNBPA Reach a New Collective Bargaining Agreement".
"Defending Champ Minnesota Tips Off WNBA's 18th Season as League Releases 2014 Game and Telecast Schedules".
"Boost Mobile WNBA All-Star 2014 Set for Phoenix".
"2014 WNBA Season Awards - WNBA".
(August 22, 2014). "Lynx's Moore Named M.V.P.". [[The New York Times]].
(August 22, 2014). "Atlanta Dream's Sancho Lyttle and Angel McCoughtry Named to WNBA All-Defensive First Team".
(June 2, 2014). "Fever's Briann January named Player of the Week". [[Indianapolis Star]].
(July 21, 2014). "Catchings Extends Record Haul by Taking Home Player of the Week Award".
(August 20, 2014). "Catchings Named Eastern Conference Player of Month".

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