The 2013 Minnesota Lynx season was the 15th season for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association, and the 4th season under head coach Cheryl Reeve.
The Lynx won their second WNBA Championship in three years, and led the league in wins for the third straight season.
The Lynx entered the season as the two-time defending WNBA Western Conference champions. The Lynx won the 2011 WNBA Finals, but lost the 2012 WNBA Finals to the Indiana Fever.
The 2012 season saw the retirement of veteran center Taj McWilliams-Franklin. The Lynx replaced her in the offseason, trading guard Candice Wiggins for former University of Minnesota standout Janel McCarville, who had played with Lynx point guard Lindsay Whalen in college.
Despite returning three olympians and an all-star in their starting lineup, the Lynx were considered something of an afterthought going into the season, with much of the press going to the Phoenix Mercury, which drafted Brittney Griner.
Despite the lowered expectations, the Lynx had another outstanding season, finishing with the best record in the WNBA for the third straight year, and placing four players in the WNBA All-Star Game. After dispatching the Seattle Storm in the opening round of the playoffs, the Lynx swept the Phoenix Mercury in the Western Conference Finals, to earn their third straight trip to the WNBA Finals. They then defeated the Atlanta Dream to win their second WNBA title in three years.
The following are the Lynx' selections in the 2013 WNBA draft.
On March 1, 2013, the Lynx announced that they had traded Candice Wiggins to the Tulsa Shock in exchange for a third-round pick in the draft and the rights to Janel McCarville from the New York Liberty.
|- style="background:#cfc;" | 1 | May 18 | Washington | | Monica Wright (16) | Rebekkah Brunson (6) | Monica Wright (4) | Bismarck Civic Center<br>1513 | 1–0 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 2 | May 21 | Connecticut | | Seimone Augustus (15) | Rebekkah Brunson (10) | Lindsay Whalen (8) | Target Center<br>2803 | 1–1
|- style="background:#cfc;" | 1 | June 1 | Connecticut | | Maya Moore (26) | M. Moore & Peters (7) | M. Moore & Wright (5) | Target Center<br>9223 | 1–0 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 2 | June 6 | Phoenix | | Maya Moore (22) | Rebekkah Brunson (10) | Lindsay Whalen (10) | Target Center<br>8511 | 2–0 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 3 | June 8 | @ Washington | | Maya Moore (22) | Rebekkah Brunson (17) | Lindsay Whalen (9) | Verizon Center<br>7870 | 2–1 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 4 | June 11 | San Antonio | | Lindsay Whalen (23) | Maya Moore (9) | Lindsay Whalen (6) | Target Center<br>7913 | 3–1 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 5 | June 14 | @ Tulsa | | Rebekkah Brunson (19) | Rebekkah Brunson (13) | Augustus & M. Moore (4) | BOK Center<br>5273 | 4–1 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 6 | June 19 | @ Phoenix | | Maya Moore (26) | Maya Moore (16) | Maya Moore (5) | US Airways Center<br>8464 | 5–1 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 7 | June 21 | @ Los Angeles | | Monica Wright (14) | Sugar Rodgers (6) | Harris & Wright (3) | Staples Center<br>6490 | 5–2 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 8 | June 23 | Tulsa | | Augustus & M. Moore (22) | Rebekkah Brunson (11) | Lindsay Whalen (9) | Target Center<br>8423 | 6–2 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 9 | June 28 | Los Angeles | | Lindsay Whalen (20) | Brunson, M. Moore, & Peters (9) | Lindsay Whalen (6) | Target Center<br>8814 | 7–2
|- style="background:#fcc;" | 10 | July 2 | @ Los Angeles | | Lindsay Whalen (19) | Rebekkah Brunson (12) | Lindsay Whalen (4) | Staples Center<br>7856 | 7–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 11 | July 7 | Phoenix | | Maya Moore (23) | Devereaux Peters (10) | Maya Moore (5) | Target Center<br>9104 | 8–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 12 | July 9 | Atlanta | | Monica Wright (22) | Rebekkah Brunson (12) | Whalen & Wright (5) | Target Center<br>8623 | 9–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 13 | July 11 | @ Indiana | | Lindsay Whalen (23) | Monica Wright (9) | Monica Wright (4) | Bankers Life Fieldhouse<br>10230 | 10–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 14 | July 13 | @ Tulsa | | Lindsay Whalen (25) | Rebekkah Brunson (12) | Lindsay Whalen (11) | BOK Center<br>6171 | 11–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 15 | July 19 | @ San Antonio | | Lindsay Whalen (21) | Maya Moore (8) | Lindsay Whalen (7) | AT&T Center<br>7105 | 12–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 16 | July 21 | @ Phoenix | | Rebekkah Brunson (18) | Rebekkah Brunson (13) | Augustus & McCarville (4) | US Airways Center<br>9806 | 13–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 17 | July 24 | Phoenix | | Lindsay Whalen (18) | Rebekkah Brunson (7) | Lindsay Whalen (7) | Target Center<br>16404 | 14–3
|- align="center" |colspan="9" bgcolor="#bbcaff"|All-Star Break |- style="background:#cfc;" | 18 | August 2 | San Antonio | | Seimone Augustus (18) | Rebekkah Brunson (12) | Lindsay Whalen (8) | Target Center<br>8733 | 15–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 19 | August 4 | Seattle | | Lindsay Whalen (22) | Rebekkah Brunson (11) | McCarville & Whalen (7) | Target Center<br>9032 | 16–3 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 20 | August 6 | @ San Antonio | | Maya Moore (26) | Maya Moore (10) | Lindsay Whalen (10) | AT&T Center<br>5390 | 17–3 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 21 | August 8 | Washington | | Maya Moore (24) | Rebekkah Brunson (7) | Lindsay Whalen (5) | Target Center<br>8723 | 17–4 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 22 | August 11 | @ Chicago | | Seimone Augustus (26) | Lindsay Whalen (10) | Augustus & Whalen (6) | Allstate Arena<br>6297 | 17–5 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 23 | August 16 | Tulsa | | Seimone Augustus (29) | Devereaux Peters (8) | Lindsay Whalen (6) | Target Center<br>9422 | 17–6 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 24 | August 18 | NY Liberty | | Maya Moore (28) | Rebekkah Brunson (8) | Lindsay Whalen (7) | Target Center<br>9004 | 18–6 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 25 | August 20 | @ Atlanta | | Maya Moore (23) | Rebekkah Brunson (14) | Lindsay Whalen (6) | Philips Arena<br>4855 | 18–7 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 26 | August 22 | @ Connecticut | | Rebekkah Brunson (24) | Rebekkah Brunson (11) | Seimone Augustus (6) | Mohegan Sun Arena<br>7088 | 19–7 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 27 | August 24 | Indiana | | Maya Moore (35) | Lindsay Whalen (9) | Lindsay Whalen (7) | Target Center<br>9504 | 20–7 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 28 | August 27 | @ NY Liberty | | Lindsay Whalen (18) | Maya Moore (10) | Seimone Augustus (3) | Prudential Center<br>5997 | 21–7 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 29 | August 31 | Seattle | | Maya Moore (30) | Monica Wright (6) | Monica Wright (7) | Target Center<br>9123 | 22–7
|- style="background:#cfc;" | 30 | September 4 | Los Angeles | | Seimone Augustus (23) | Rebekkah Brunson (11) | Lindsay Whalen (14) | Target Center<br>9314 | 23–7 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 31 | September 7 | @ Seattle | | Rebekkah Brunson (19) | McCarville & Peters (10) | McCarville & Whalen (4) | Key Arena<br>8147 | 24–7 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 32 | September 10 | @ Seattle | | Maya Moore (20) | Rebekkah Brunson (8) | Lindsay Whalen (4) | Key Arena<br>5486 | 25–7 |- style="background:#fcc;" | 33 | September 12 | @ Los Angeles | | Seimone Augustus (23) | Rebekkah Brunson (11) | Whalen & Wright (4) | Staples Center<br>11553 | 25–8 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 34 | September 14 | Chicago | | Lindsay Whalen (23) | Maya Moore (11) | M. Moore & Whalen (6) | Target Center<br>9613 | 26–8
|- style="background:#cfc;" | 1 | September 20 | Seattle | | Seimone Augustus (19) | Rebekkah Brunson (9) | Maya Moore (6) | Target Center<br>8832 | 1–0 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 2 | September 22 | @ Seattle | | Maya Moore (22) | Rebekkah Brunson (13) | Janel McCarville (5) | Tacoma Dome<br>3457 | 2–0
|- style="background:#cfc;" | 1 | September 26 | Phoenix | | M. Moore and Whalen (20) | Lindsay Whalen (6) | Lindsay Whalen (5) | Target Center<br>9013 | 1-0 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 2 | September 29 | @ Phoenix | | Maya Moore (27) | Rebekkah Brunson (14) | Lindsay Whalen (7) | US Airways Center<br>8020 | 2-0
|- style="background:#cfc;" | 1 | October 6 | Atlanta | | Maya Moore (23) | Rebekkah Brunson (8) | Lindsay Whalen (5) | Target Center<br>13804 | 1-0 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 2 | October 8 | Atlanta | | Seimone Augustus (20) | Rebekkah Brunson (10) | Lindsay Whalen (5) | Target Center<br>12313 | 2-0 |- style="background:#cfc;" | 3 | October 10 | @ Atlanta | | Maya Moore (23) | Rebekkah Brunson (12) | Lindsay Whalen (6) | Gwinnett Arena<br>5040 | 3-0
WNBA Champions
WNBA Finals MVP - Maya Moore
All-WNBA First Team - Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen
All-WNBA Second Team - Seimone Augustus
All-WNBA Defensive Second Team - Rebekkah Brunson
WNBA Western Conference Player of the Month (August) - Maya Moore
WNBA Western Conference Player of the Month (September) - Maya Moore
WNBA Player of the Week - Maya Moore (3 times), Rebekkah Brunson
WNBA All-Stars - Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore, Rebekkah Brunson, Lindsay Whalen
WNBA Record for Fewest Turnovers per Game (12.1)