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2015 Washington Mystics season

WNBA team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ19878754 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2015 WNBA season for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association was scheduled to begin June 5, 2015.

Transactions

WNBA draft

In the first round of the 2015 WNBA Draft, the Washington Mystics selected Ally Malott from University of Dayton as the eighth pick. The Mystics selected Natasha Cloud from Saint Joseph's University in the second round with the fifteenth overall pick, and Maria Gajic from Bosnia in the third round with the thirty-second overall pick.

Trades

Roster

Season standings

Schedule

Playoffs

They lost to the New York Liberty twice in the playoffs.

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This entry incorporates text from “2015 Washington Mystics season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.