The 2016 WNBA season of the Minnesota Lynx is the 18th season in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Lynx were the defending WNBA champions. The Lynx finished with a record of 28–6, finishing first in the Western Conference (and the league as a whole) and qualifying for the playoffs. Minnesota advanced to their second straight Finals. Their 2016 roster included five competitors in the 2016 Rio Olympics (Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen, Sylvia Fowles, and Seimone Augustus of the U.S. squad and Anna Cruz of the Spanish team) as well as seven current or previous all-stars (Moore, Whalen, Fowles, Augustus, Rebekkah Brunson, Jia Perkins and Renee Montgomery) with an astonishing 22 total past selections to the all-star game between them.

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The Lynx made three selections in the 2016 WNBA Entry Draft in Uncasville, Connecticut:

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Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	WNBA Team	School/Team/Country
2	14	Jazmon Gwathmey	United States	Minnesota Lynx[nb 1] (then traded to San Antonio)[1]	James Madison
2	22	Bashaara Graves	United States	Minnesota Lynx[nb 2]	Tennessee
3	35	Temi Fagbenle	United Kingdom	Minnesota Lynx	USC

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The Lynx qualified for the 2016 playoffs, and, as the team with the best regular season record in the WNBA, received two automatic byes, advancing straight to the best-of-five semifinal against the eighth-seeded Phoenix Mercury. They swept the Mercury three games to none to advance to the 2016 WNBA Finals.