[1] 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 22 total past selections to the all-star game between them.
The Lynx then won their next six games in a row to finish July 8–1 and head into the Olympic break with an overall record of 21–4.
They rebounded with a nineteen point win in game two and evened the series as it moved to Los Angeles.
The deciding game five was in Minnesota, but home court advantage was not enough for the Lynx to repeat as champions.
[2] The Lynx made three selections in the 2016 WNBA Entry Draft in Uncasville, Connecticut: 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.