2007 WNBA Draft

The 2007 WNBA Draft was the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league.

The first phase, held January 8, 2007 via conference call, was a dispersal draft from the roster of the Charlotte Sting, which folded on January 3rd.^[1] This was the first dispersal draft since before the 2004 season, after the Cleveland Rockers folded.^[2] The teams selected in inverse order of their 2006 won-loss record, without regard to the results of the WNBA draft lottery. All Sting players were available except for unrestricted free agents Allison Feaster and Tammy Sutton-Brown.^[2]

The main draft was held in April 4, 2007, inside the Renaissance Hotel on Cleveland's Public Square, the day after the 2007 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament ended. ^[3]

Last year's draft was held in Boston the night before the championship game of the 2006 NCAA women's basketball tournament, which was also in Boston. This marked the first WNBA draft ever held outside of New Jersey.

A lottery was held on October 26, 2006 among the teams with the worst records in the 2006 season to determine the order of the top six picks in the first round of the draft. As in the NBA Draft, the teams' chances were weighted so that the team with the worst record, in this case the Chicago Sky, had the best chance of receiving the top pick. The lottery was used to determine only the top two picks, with picks 3 through 6 going to the other lottery teams in inverse order of record. The Phoenix Mercury, despite having the best record of the six teams involved and thus the worst mathematical chance of winning, drew the top pick. It was the first time since the institution of the lottery for the 2002 Draft that the top pick was earned by the team with the worst mathematical chance of winning. Also for the first time, the team with the second-worst odds of earning the top pick, in this case the San Antonio Silver Stars, received the second pick.^[4] The remaining first-round picks, plus all picks in the second and third rounds, are allocated in inverse order of regular-season record, without regard to playoff results (as in the NBA Draft).

Dispersal Draft

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team
1	Monique Currie	United States	Chicago Sky	(from Charlotte Sting)
2	Tangela Smith	United States	Minnesota Lynx	(from Charlotte Sting)
3	Janel McCarville	United States	New York Liberty	(from Charlotte Sting)
4	Helen Darling	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	(from Charlotte Sting)
5	Kelly Mazzante	United States	Phoenix Mercury	(from Charlotte Sting)
6	Teana Miller	United States	Washington Mystics	(from Charlotte Sting)
7	Tye'sha Fluker	United States	Seattle Storm	(from Charlotte Sting)
8	Yelena Leuchanka	Belarus	Houston Comets	(from Charlotte Sting)
9	Sheri Sam	United States	Indiana Fever	(from Charlotte Sting)
10	LaToya Bond	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	(from Charlotte Sting)
11	Passed		Detroit Shock	(from Charlotte Sting)
12	Ayana Walker	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	(from Charlotte Sting)
13	Passed		Connecticut Sun	(from Charlotte Sting)

NOTE: Two former Sting players, Tasha Butts and Summer Erb, were not selected in this draft.

WNBA Draft

Round 1

Pick	Player	Nationality	WNBA Team	College/HS/Club Team
1	Lindsey Harding	United States	Minnesota Lynx (from Phoenix)	Duke
2	Jessica Davenport	United States	New York Liberty (from San Antonio)	Ohio State
3	Armintie Price	United States	Chicago Sky	Ole Miss
4	Noelle Quinn	United States	Minnesota Lynx	UCLA
5	Tiffany Jackson	United States	New York Liberty	Texas
6	Bernice Mosby	United States	Washington Mystics	Baylor
7	Katie Gearlds	United States	Seattle Storm	Purdue
8	Ashley Shields	United States	Houston Comets	SW Tennessee CC
9	Alison Bales	United States	Indiana Fever	Duke
10	Carla Thomas	United States	Chicago Sky (from Sacramento)	Vanderbilt
11	Ivory Latta	United States	Detroit Shock	North Carolina
12	Kamesha Hairston	United States	Connecticut Sun (from Los Angeles)	Temple
13	Sandrine Gruda	France	Connecticut Sun	French National Team

Round 2

Pick	Player	Nationality	WNBA Team	College/HS/Club Team
14	Dee Davis	United States	Houston Comets (from Chicago)	Vanderbilt
15	Eshaya Murphy	United States	Minnesota Lynx	USC
16	Shay Doron	Israel	New York Liberty	Maryland
17	Camille Little	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars	North Carolina
18	Tyresa Smith	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Delaware
19	Megan Vogel	United States	Washington Mystics	South Dakota State
20	Stephanie Raymond	United States	Chicago Sky (from Seattle)	Northern Illinois
21	Jessica Dickson	United States	Chicago Sky (from Houston)	South Florida
22	Lyndsey Medders	United States	Indiana Fever	Iowa State
23	Brooke Smith	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	Stanford
24	Kathrin Ress	Italy	Minnesota Lynx (from Detroit)	Boston College
25	Sidney Spencer	United States	Los Angeles Sparks	Tennessee
26	Cori Chambers	United States	Connecticut Sun	Georgia

Round 3

Pick	Player	Nationality	WNBA Team	College/HS/Club Team
27	Jenna Rubino	United States	Chicago Sky	DePaul
28	Leah Rush	United States	Phoenix Mercury (from Minnesota)	Oklahoma
29	Martina Weber	United States	New York Liberty	Iona
30	Nare Diawara	Mali	San Antonio Silver Stars	Virginia Tech
31	Chrissy Givens	United States	Phoenix Mercury	Middle Tennessee
32	Gillian Goring	Trinidad and Tobago	Washington Mystics	NC State
33	Brandie Hoskins	United States	Seattle Storm	Ohio State
34	Kristen Newlin	United States	Houston Comets	Stanford
35	Ashley Key	United States	Indiana Fever	NC State
36	Meg Bulger	United States	Sacramento Monarchs	West Virginia
37	Emily Westerberg	United States	Phoenix Mercury (from Detroit)	Arizona State
38	Amanda Brown	Canada	Los Angeles Sparks	Penn State
39	Kiera Hardy	United States	Connecticut Sun	Nebraska

Notes and references

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