2007 WNBA dispersal draft

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2007 WNBA dispersal draft
General information
SportBasketball
Date(s)January 8, 2007
Overview
League WNBA
Merging teams Charlotte Sting
(folded in 2007)
First selection Monique Currie
Chicago Sky
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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) held their third dispersal draft on January 8, 2007. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

This dispersal draft re-assigned players from the Charlotte Sting who folded in December 2006, after the end of the 2006 WNBA season. [3] [4] [5] The remaining thirteen active teams in the WNBA each selected one player from the 2006 Sting roster in the one-round draft. [6] Teams drafted in inverse order of their 2006 regular season finish. [4] [7]

All Sting players were available except for unrestricted free agents, Allison Feaster and Tammy Sutton-Brown. [4] Two players from the Sting, Tasha Butts and Summer Erb, were not selected in the dispersal draft and became free agents on January 15. [1]

Key

Pos.GFC
Position GuardForwardCenter
+Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game

Draft

The following players were drafted from the roster of the Charlotte Sting:

PickPlayerPositionNationalityNew team
1 Monique Currie FFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States Chicago Sky
2 Tangela Smith +F/C Minnesota Lynx
3 Janel McCarville C New York Liberty
4 Helen Darling G San Antonio Silver Stars
5 Kelly Mazzante G Phoenix Mercury
6 Teana Miller C Washington Mystics
7 Tye'sha Fluker C Seattle Storm
8 Yelena Leuchanka CFlag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg Belarus Houston Comets
9 Sheri Sam +F/GFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States Indiana Fever
10 LaToya Bond G Sacramento Monarchs
11No selection—— Detroit Shock
12 Ayana Walker FFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States Los Angeles Sparks
13No selection—— Connecticut Sun

References

  1. 1 2 "2007 Charlotte Sting Dispersal Draft Analysis". WNBA. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  2. ↑ "2007 WNBA Draft Overview". The Best Sports Blog. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Aces History: Feeling A Draft (2007)". aces.wnba.com. Retrieved 2025-07-14.
  4. 1 2 3 "Charlotte Sting Dispersal Draft To Be Held on January 8". WNBA. January 4, 2007. Archived from the original on January 10, 2007. Retrieved January 6, 2007.
  5. ↑ Metcalfe, Jeff (September 5, 2019). "Mercury's Camille Little, final active player from 2007 WNBA draft, nears retirement". AZ Central. Retrieved May 25, 2025. There also was a dispersal draft in early 2007 for teams to acquire former Charlotte Sting players...
  6. ↑ "Chicago Sky Selects Monique Currie in Dispersal Draft". WNBA. January 8, 2007. Archived from the original on January 27, 2007.
  7. ↑ "WNBA Holds Dispersal Draft for Former Members of the Charlotte Sting". Our Sports Central. January 8, 2007. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
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