2011 WNBA draft

The 2011 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 11, 2011, at the ESPN studios in Bristol, Connecticut. The first round was shown on ESPN (HD), while the second and third rounds were shown on NBA TV and ESPNU.

Draft lottery

The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2011 draft occurred on November 2, 2010. The Minnesota Lynx won the first pick, while the Tulsa Shock, Chicago Sky and Lynx were awarded the second, third and fourth 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:

Team	2010 record	Lottery chances	Pick
1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Tulsa Shock	6–28	442	.442	.316	.181	.062
Minnesota Lynx	13–21	276	.276	.310	.270	.144
Chicago Sky	14–20	178	.178	.230	.317	.275
Minnesota Lynx (from Conn.)	17–17	104	.104	.145	.232	.520
Shaded block denotes actual lottery result.

Transactions

March 11, 2010: Atlanta and San Antonio swap second-round picks as part of the Michelle Snow transaction.
April 7, 2010: Connecticut receives a second-round pick from Tulsa as part of the Chante Black/Amber Holt transaction.
April 8, 2010: Minnesota receives Connecticut's first-round pick and Tulsa's second-round pick from Connecticut as part of the Kelsey Griffin transaction.
May 13, 2010: Chicago receives a second-round pick from Los Angeles as part of the Kristi Toliver transaction.
May 27, 2010: Tulsa receives a second-round pick from Indiana as part of the Shavonte Zellous transaction.
July 23, 2010: Tulsa receives a first-round pick from Phoenix as part of the Kara Braxton/Nicole Ohlde transaction.

Source

Invited players

The WNBA announced on April 6, 2011, that 15 players had been invited to attend the draft.

Key

!	Denotes player who has been inducted to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
^	Denotes player who has been inducted to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
*	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-WNBA Team
+	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game
#	Denotes player who never played in the WNBA regular season or playoffs
Bold	Denotes player who won Rookie of the Year

Draft selections

Round 1

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Maya Moore * ^!	United States	Minnesota Lynx	Connecticut
2	Liz Cambage *	Australia	Tulsa Shock	Bulleen Boomers (Australia)
3	Courtney Vandersloot *	United States	Chicago Sky	Gonzaga
4	Amber Harris	Minnesota Lynx (from Connecticut)	Xavier
5	Jantel Lavender +	Los Angeles Sparks	Ohio State
6	Danielle Robinson *	San Antonio Silver Stars	Oklahoma
7	Kayla Pedersen	Tulsa Shock (from Phoenix)	Stanford
8	Ta'Shia Phillips (traded to Washington)	Atlanta Dream	Xavier
9	Jeanette Pohlen	Indiana Fever	Stanford
10	Alex Montgomery	New York Liberty	Georgia Tech
11	Victoria Dunlap	Washington Mystics	Kentucky
12	Jasmine Thomas +	Seattle Storm	Duke

Round 2

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
13	Jessica Breland + (traded to New York)	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Tulsa via Connecticut)	North Carolina
14	Felicia Chester (traded to Atlanta)	Minnesota Lynx	DePaul
15	Carolyn Swords	Chicago Sky	Boston College
16	Sydney Colson (traded to New York)	Connecticut Sun	Texas A&M
17	Angie Bjorklund	Chicago Sky (from Los Angeles)	Tennessee
18	Rachel Jarry (traded to Minnesota)	Australia	Atlanta Dream (from San Antonio)	Bulleen Boomers (Australia)
19	Brittany Spears #	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Colorado
20	Danielle Adams +	San Antonio Silver Stars (from Atlanta)	Texas A&M
21	Italee Lucas #	Tulsa Shock (from Indiana)	North Carolina
22	Angel Robinson # (traded to Minnesota)	New York Liberty	Marquette
23	Karima Christmas	Washington Mystics	Duke
24	Ify Ibekwe	Seattle Storm	Arizona

Round 3

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
25	Chastity Reed	United States	Tulsa Shock	Arkansas–Little Rock
26	Kachine Alexander #	Minnesota Lynx	Iowa
27	Amy Jaeschke #	Chicago Sky	Northwestern
28	Adrienne Johnson	Connecticut Sun	Louisiana Tech
29	Elina Babkina (pick later voided)	Latvia	Los Angeles Sparks	Lotos VBW Clima Gdynia (Poland)
30	Porsha Phillips	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	Georgia
31	Tahnee Robinson # (traded to Connecticut)	Phoenix Mercury	Nevada
32	Kelsey Bolte #	Atlanta Dream	Iowa State
33	Jori Davis #	Indiana Fever	Indiana
34	Mekia Valentine #	New York Liberty	UC Santa Barbara
35	Sara Krnjić #	Serbia	Washington Mystics	Pécs 2010 (Hungary)
36	Krystal Thomas	United States	Seattle Storm	Duke