2009 WNBA dispersal draft

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2009 WNBA dispersal draft
General information
SportBasketball
Date(s)December 8, 2008
Overview
League WNBA
Merging teams Houston Comets
(folded in 2008)
First selection Sancho Lyttle
Atlanta Dream
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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) held their fourth dispersal draft on December 8, 2008. [1] [2]

Contents

On December 1, 2008, the league announced that the Houston Comets would no longer be in operation. [3] The dispersal draft was held on December 8 to re-assign players from the 2008 Comets roster. [4] The remaining thirteen teams in the WNBA each selected one player from the team's final roster in the one-round draft. [5] Teams drafted in inverse order of their 2008 regular season finish. [4] All Comets players were available except for unrestricted free agents, Latasha Byears, Mwadi Mabika, Hamchetou Maiga-Ba, Michelle Snow, and Tina Thompson. [1]

Lucienne Berthieu, Tamecka Dixon, Shannon Johnson, and Polina Tzekova were not selected in the draft and became free agents on January 5, 2009. [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 Houston Comets:

PickPlayerPositionNationalityNew team
1 Sancho Lyttle +F/CFlag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.svg  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Atlanta Dream
2 Matee Ajavon GFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States Washington Mystics
3 Mistie Williams F Chicago Sky
4 Roneeka Hodges G Minnesota Lynx
5 Sequoia Holmes G Phoenix Mercury
6 Erica White G Indiana Fever
7 Renae Camino GFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Sacramento Monarchs
8No selection—— New York Liberty
9 Los Angeles Sparks
10 Connecticut Sun
11 Detroit Shock
12 Seattle Storm
13 San Antonio Silver Stars

References

  1. 1 2 3 "2008 Houston Comets Dispersal Draft Analysis". WNBA. December 8, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Defunct Houston Comets Hold Dispersal Draft". NPR . December 9, 2008. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Atlanta, Washington, Chicago have best chance of getting No. 1 pick in draft". ESPN. December 4, 2008. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Lytle goes first in WNBA dispersal draft". ESPN. December 8, 2008. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Houston Comets' dispersal draft set for Monday". Los Angeles Times . December 4, 2008. Retrieved May 25, 2025.
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