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The 2007 WNBA
Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
 Draft
WNBA Draft

The WNBA Draft is an annual draft held by the Women's National Basketball Association through which WNBA teams can select new players from a talent pool of college and List of WNBA players....
 was the league's annual process
Draft (sports)

A draft is a process used in the United States, Canada, and Australia to allocate certain players to sports teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players....
 for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league.

The first phase, held January 8, 2007 via conference call
Conference call

A conference call is a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than one called party listen in to the Sound portion of the call....
, was a dispersal draft
Dispersal draft

A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business, consolidates with another team, or for some other reason ceases to exist....
 from the roster of the Charlotte Sting
Charlotte Sting

The Charlotte Sting was once a Women's National Basketball Association franchise based in Charlotte, North Carolina and it was one of the league's eight original teams....
, which folded on January 3rd. This was the first dispersal draft since before the 2004 season, after the Cleveland Rockers
Cleveland Rockers

This article is about the defunct WNBA team; for the American Basketball Association team, see Cleveland Rockers .The Cleveland Rockers was a Women's National Basketball Association team that played from 1997 until 2003....
 folded. The teams selected in inverse order of their 2006 won-loss record, without regard to the results of the WNBA draft lottery.






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The 2007 WNBA
Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association has 13 teams and is an organization governing a professional basketball league for women in the United States....
 Draft
WNBA Draft

The WNBA Draft is an annual draft held by the Women's National Basketball Association through which WNBA teams can select new players from a talent pool of college and List of WNBA players....
 was the league's annual process
Draft (sports)

A draft is a process used in the United States, Canada, and Australia to allocate certain players to sports teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players....
 for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league.

The first phase, held January 8, 2007 via conference call
Conference call

A conference call is a telephone call in which the calling party wishes to have more than one called party listen in to the Sound portion of the call....
, was a dispersal draft
Dispersal draft

A dispersal draft is a process in professional sports for assigning players to a new team when their current team goes out of business, consolidates with another team, or for some other reason ceases to exist....
 from the roster of the Charlotte Sting
Charlotte Sting

The Charlotte Sting was once a Women's National Basketball Association franchise based in Charlotte, North Carolina and it was one of the league's eight original teams....
, which folded on January 3rd. This was the first dispersal draft since before the 2004 season, after the Cleveland Rockers
Cleveland Rockers

This article is about the defunct WNBA team; for the American Basketball Association team, see Cleveland Rockers .The Cleveland Rockers was a Women's National Basketball Association team that played from 1997 until 2003....
 folded. 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
Free agent

In professional sports, a free agent is a team player whose contract with a team has expired, and the player is able to sign a contract with another team if that player is chosen....
 Allison Feaster
Allison Feaster

Allison Sharlene Feaster, nee Feaster-Strong , is an United States professional basketball player for the Women's National Basketball Association's Indiana Fever....
 and Tammy Sutton-Brown
Tammy Sutton-Brown

Tamara "Tammy" Kim Sutton-Brown is a Canada professional women's basketball player in the Women's National Basketball Association. Her primary position is center....
.

The main draft was held in April 4, 2007, inside the Renaissance Hotel on Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
's Public Square
Public Square

Public Square is the central plaza in Downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio, United States. It takes up four city blocks; Superior Avenue and Ontario Street cross through it....
, the day after the 2007 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament
2007 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 2007 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament began on March 17, 2007 and concluded on April 3 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio....
 ended.

The previous year's draft
2006 WNBA Draft

On November 16, 2005, the Women's National Basketball Association held an expansion draft for the Chicago Sky. It was the first expansion draft since before the 2000 season, when the WNBA welcomed the Miami Sol, Portland Fire, Indiana Fever, and Seattle Storm into the league....
 was held in Boston
Boston, Massachusetts

Boston is the State capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region, and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England." Boston city proper had a 2007 est...
 the night before the championship game of the 2006 NCAA women's basketball tournament
2006 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 2006 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, marked the 25th NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship. The events were held March 18–April 4, 2006 at several sites, with the Championship game held in Boston....
, which was also in Boston. This marked the first WNBA draft ever held outside of New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
.

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
NBA Draft

The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association's thirty teams can select players who wish to join the league....
, the teams' chances were weighted so that the team with the worst record, in this case the Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky

The Chicago Sky are a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Chicago, Illinois. They began league play in 2006. Their home court is the UIC Pavilion....
, 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
Phoenix Mercury

The Phoenix Mercury is a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Phoenix, Arizona . The Mercury began in 1997 as one of the league's original eight teams....
, 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
2002 WNBA Draft

2002 in sports WNBA Draft - 20 April 2002*On April 20, 2002 the regular WNBA draft took place....
 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
San Antonio Silver Stars

The San Antonio Silver Stars is a team in the Women's National Basketball Association based in San Antonio, Texas. They are one of the original eight founding teams in the WNBA....
, received the second pick. 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).

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