Best WNBA Player ESPY Award

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The Best WNBA Player ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the Women's National Basketball Association player, irrespective of nationality, adjudged to be the best in a given year.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and retired sportspersons, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.

Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year, typically in the season immediately precedent to the holding of the ESPY Awards ceremony; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous^[1], or parts of two WNBA seasons.

1 List of winners
2 See also
3 Notes
4 References

[edit] List of winners

Years	Player	Nation of citizenship	Position played	Team represented
1998	Cynthia Cooper	United States	Point guard	Houston Comets
1999	Cynthia Cooper	United States	Point guard	Houston Comets
2000	Cynthia Cooper	United States	Point guard	Houston Comets
2001	Sheryl Swoopes	United States	Small forward	Houston Comets
2002	Lisa Leslie	United States	Center	Los Angeles Sparks
2003	Lisa Leslie	United States	Center	Los Angeles Sparks
2004	Lauren Jackson	Australia	Power forward	Seattle Storm
2005	Lauren Jackson	Australia	Power forward	Seattle Storm
2006	Sheryl Swoopes	United States	Small forward	Houston Comets
2007	Lisa Leslie	United States	Center	Los Angeles Sparks

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

^ Because of the rescheduling of the awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.