2001 Orlando Miracle season

The 2001 WNBA season was their third in the league. The Miracle missed the playoffs for the second time in franchise history. The Miracle also hosted the 2001 WNBA All-Star Game.

Transactions

WNBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School/Team/Country
1	10	Katie Douglas		Purdue
2	26	Brooke Wyckoff		Florida State
3	42	Jaclyn Johnson		Kansas
4	58	Anne Thorius		Michigan

Transactions

Date	Transaction
April 20, 2001	Drafted Katie Douglas, Brooke Wyckoff, Jaclyn Johnson and Anne Thorius in the 2001 WNBA Draft
April 30, 2001	Signed Denique Graves, Nakia Sanford, Nyree Roberts, Shaka Massey, Shawnetta Stewart, Tauja Catchings and Tawona Alhaleem
May 1, 2001	Waived Tauja Catchings
May 3, 2001	Waived Nakia Sanford
	Signed LaCharlotte Smith and Tora Suber
May 4, 2001	Waived Shawnetta Stewart
May 14, 2001	Waived LaCharlotte Smith, Shaka Massey and Tora Suber
May 21, 2001	Waived Jannon Roland
May 22, 2001	Waived Andrea Congreaves
May 26, 2001	Waived Anne Thorius, Denique Graves and Romana Hamzová

Schedule

Regular season

Template:WNBA game log start Template:WNBA game log section |- style="background:#fcc;" | 1 | June 1 | Los Angeles | L 62–68 | Nykesha Sales (20) | McWilliams-Franklin
Sales (6) | Katie Douglas
Sales (3) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 0–1 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 2 | June 5 | @ Detroit | W 92–71 | Nykesha Sales (19) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (12) | Nykesha Sales (5) | The Palace of Auburn Hills | 1–1 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 3 | June 7 | @ Utah | L 79–82 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (19) | Hicks
McWilliams-Franklin (6) | Elaine Powell (6) | Delta Center | 1–2 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 4 | June 9 | Charlotte | L 79–86 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (23) | Elaine Powell (9) | Elaine Powell (8) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 1–3 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 5 | June 12 | @ Seattle | L 63–70 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (14) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (7) | Douglas
McWilliams-Franklin
Sales (3) | KeyArena | 1–4 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 6 | June 14 | @ Los Angeles | L 68–84 | Elaine Powell (16) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (12) | Douglas
McWilliams-Franklin (3) | Staples Center | 1–5 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 7 | June 16 | @ Phoenix | L 68–72 | Nykesha Sales (14) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (10) | Tiffany McCain (5) | America West Arena | 1–6 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 8 | June 18 | @ Indiana | W 72–65 | Nykesha Sales (20) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (9) | McWilliams-Franklin
Powell (4) | Conseco Fieldhouse | 2–6 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 9 | June 23 | Washington | W 67–59 | Nykesha Sales (21) | Nykesha Sales (8) | S. Johnson
Wyckoff (4) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 3–6 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 10 | June 25 | New York | W 67–54 | Nykesha Sales (18) | Sales
McWilliams-Franklin (9) | Jessie Hicks (5) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 4–6 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 11 | June 27 | Cleveland | L 41–65 | Brooke Wyckoff (8) | S. Johnson
Sales
Wyckoff (5) | McWilliams-Franklin
Sales (2) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 4–7 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 12 | June 30 | @ New York | L 60–72 | McWilliams-Franklin
Sales (14) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (9) | Sales
Powell (3) | Madison Square Garden | 4–8 Template:WNBA game log section |- style="background:#fcc;" | 13 | July 1 | @ Washington | L 64–76 | S. Johnson
Sales (14) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (8) | Tiffany McCain (3) | MCI Center | 4–9 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 14 | July 6 | Sacramento | L 68–75 | Nykesha Sales (16) | McWilliams-Franklin
Powell (8) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (4) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 4–10 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 15 | July 8 | Detroit | W 73–67 | S. Johnson
McWilliams-Franklin (19) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (10) | Elaine Powell (3) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 5–10 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 16 | July 10 | Miami | L 63–65 (OT) | S. Johnson
Sales (15) | McWilliams-Franklin
Wyckoff (7) | McWilliams-Franklin
Powell (3) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 5–11 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 17 | July 12 | @ Charlotte | W 72–69 | S. Johnson
Sales (18) | McWilliams-Franklin
Sales (10) | Ahlaheem
McWilliams-Franklin (3) | Charlotte Coliseum | 6–11 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 18 | July 13 | @ Indiana | L 60–74 | Shannon Johnson (21) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (7) | Shannon Johnson (3) | Conseco Fieldhouse | 6–12 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 19 | July 18 | Houston | W 57–52 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (16) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (13) | Shannon Johnson (6) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 7–12 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 20 | July 20 | @ Charlotte | L 65–72 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (19) | Nykesha Sales (7) | Shannon Johnson (5) | Charlotte Coliseum | 7–13 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 21 | July 21 | Minnesota | W 71–49 | Nykesha Sales (15) | Nykesha Sales (10) | Elaine Powell (5) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 8–13 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 22 | July 24 | Washington | W 71–63 | Nykesha Sales (20) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (13) | Shannon Johnson (5) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 9–13 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 23 | July 27 | @ Miami | L 63–71 (OT) | Shannon Johnson (14) | Nykesha Sales (8) | Elaine Powell (5) | American Airlines Arena | 9–14 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 24 | July 29 | @ Detroit | L 62–64 | Hicks
McWilliams-Franklin (15) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (12) | Elaine Powell (5) | The Palace of Auburn Hills | 9–15 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 25 | July 30 | @ Cleveland | L 47–65 | Nykesha Sales (15) | Brooke Wyckoff (9) | Elaine Powell (2) | Gund Arena | 9–16 Template:WNBA game log section |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 26 | August 1 | Portland | W 65–63 | Nykesha Sales (21) | Shannon Johnson (9) | Shannon Johnson (5) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 10–16 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 27 | August 3 | @ Houston | L 60–72 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (17) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (8) | Elaine Powell (3) | Compaq Center | 10–17 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 28 | August 5 | Phoenix | W 79–68 | Shannon Johnson (25) | Taj McWilliams-Franklin (8) | S. Johnson
Powell (6) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 11–17 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 29 | August 7 | Cleveland | W 74–67 | Douglas
Powell (16) | Shannon Johnson (6) | Shannon Johnson (6) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 12–17 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 30 | August 10 | @ New York | L 67–77 | Nykesha Sales (21) | Nykesha Sales (9) | Katie Douglas (5) | Madison Square Garden | 12–18 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 31 | August 11 | Miami | L 64–75 | Shannon Johnson (16) | Elaine Powell (7) | Nykesha Sales (5) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 12–19 |- style="background:#bbffbb;" | 32 | August 14 | Indiana | W 78–72 | Katie Douglas (18) | Jessie Hicks (8) | Elaine Powell (4) | TD Waterhouse Centre | 13–19 Template:WNBA game log end

Statistics

Regular Season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Taj McWilliams-Franklin	32	32	33.1	.474	.200	.744	7.6	2.2	1.6	1.6	12.6
Elaine Powell	32	32	33.0	.402	.382	.755	3.1	3.1	1.5	0.2	11.2
Nykesha Sales	32	31	32.5	.438	.314	.784	5.4	1.8	2.2	0.2	13.5
Shannon Johnson	26	22	30.2	.367	.365	.757	3.0	2.6	1.3	0.2	11.6
Brooke Wyckoff	32	27	20.3	.328	.162	.714	3.8	1.2	0.8	0.5	3.4
Katie Douglas	22	0	20.0	.362	.316	.723	2.3	1.8	1.7	0.3	7.0
Jessie Hicks	32	5	14.3	.389	N/A	.652	2.9	0.7	0.7	0.5	5.3
Tiffany McCain	32	9	13.8	.321	.313	.667	1.2	1.1	0.3	0.3	3.0
Tawona Alhaleem	26	1	9.7	.328	.364	.500	1.5	0.5	0.4	0.0	1.9
Jaclyn Johnson	17	1	8.2	.560	.429	.800	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.2	2.1
Cíntia dos Santos	10	0	6.5	.368	N/A	.833	0.6	0.2	0.3	0.5	1.9
Carla McGhee	17	0	4.2	.250	N/A	.500	0.6	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.8

^‡Waived/Released during the season
^†Traded during the season
^≠Acquired during the season

Awards and honors

• Taj McWilliams-Franklin and Nykesha Sales were named to the WNBA All-Star team.
• Adrienne Johnson received the Hometown Hero Award.