2007 WNBA draft

2007 meeting of WNBA teams to select players August 2023 2007 WNBA draft Basketball April 4, 2007 Cleveland, Ohio ESPN2, NBATV, ESPNU WNBA Charlotte Sting (folded in 2006) Lindsey HardingMinnesota Lynx 2006 2008 The 2007 WNBA draft was the league's annual process for determining which teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. A lottery was held on October 26, 2006, among the teams with the worst records in the previous 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.http://www.wnba.com/features/lottery_index_07.html Phoenix Mercury Win Top Pick in 2007 WNBA Draft WNBA October 26, 2006 January 6, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070128050359/http://www.wnba.com/features/lottery_index_07.html January 28, 2007 live 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). The main draft was held on 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.http://www.wnba.com/news/draft_cleveland_070207.html 2007 WNBA Draft to Cap Weeklong Celebration of Women's Basketball in Cleveland WNBA February 7, 2007 March 9, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070314105455/http://www.wnba.com/news/draft_cleveland_070207.html March 14, 2007 live This draft marked the first WNBA draft ever held outside of New Jersey. Additionally, on January 8, 2007, the WNBA held a dispersal draft to re-assign players from the Charlotte Sting who folded at the end of 2006 WNBA season.2007 Charlotte Sting Dispersal Draft Analysis https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/features/dispersalanalysis.html WNBA May 25, 2025 Key y y y y y Draft Round 1 PickPlayerNationalityTeamSchool / club team 1 Lindsey Harding (traded to Minnesota) Phoenix Mercury Duke 2 Jessica Davenport (traded to New York) San Antonio Silver Stars Ohio State 3 Armintie Price Chicago Sky Ole Miss 4 Noelle Quinn Minnesota Lynx UCLA 5 Tiffany Jackson New York Liberty Texas 6 Bernice Mosby Washington Mystics Baylor 7 Katie Gearlds Seattle Storm Purdue 8 Ashley Shields Houston Comets Southwest Tennessee CC 9 Alison Bales Indiana Fever Duke 10 Carla Thomas Chicago Sky (from Sacramento) Vanderbilt 11Ivory Latta + Detroit Shock North Carolina 12 Kamesha Hairston Connecticut Sun (from Los Angeles) Temple 13 Sandrine Gruda Connecticut Sun Valenciennes (France) Round 2 PickPlayerNationalityTeamSchool / club team 14 Dee Davis Houston Comets (from Chicago) Vanderbilt 15 Shay Murphy Minnesota Lynx USC 16 Shay Doron New York Liberty Maryland 17 Camille Little San Antonio Silver Stars North Carolina 18 Tyresa Smith Phoenix Mercury Delaware 19 Megan Vogel # Washington Mystics South Dakota State 20 Stephanie Raymond Chicago Sky (from Seattle) Northern Illinois 21 Jessica Dickson # Chicago Sky (from Houston) South Florida 22 Lyndsey Medders # Indiana Fever Iowa State 23 Brooke Smith Sacramento Monarchs Stanford 24 Kathrin Ress Minnesota Lynx (from Detroit) Boston College 25 Sidney Spencer Los Angeles Sparks Tennessee 26 Cori Chambers Connecticut Sun Georgia Round 3 PickPlayerNationalityTeamSchool / club team 27 Jenna Rubino # Chicago Sky DePaul 28 Leah Rush Phoenix Mercury (from Minnesota) Oklahoma 29 Martina Weber New York Liberty Iona 30 Nare Diawara # San Antonio Silver Stars Virginia Tech 31 Chrissy Givens Phoenix Mercury Middle Tennessee 32 Gillian Goring Washington Mystics North Carolina State 33 Brandie Hoskins # Seattle Storm Ohio State 34 Kristen Newlin # Houston Comets Stanford 35 Ashley Key # Indiana Fever North Carolina State 36 Meg Bulger # Sacramento Monarchs West Virginia 37 Emily Westerberg # Phoenix Mercury (from Detroit) Arizona State 38 Amanda Brown # Los Angeles Sparks Penn State 39 Kiera Hardy # Connecticut Sun Nebraska See also List of first overall WNBA draft picks References General http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html All-Time WNBA draft history June 4, 2008 WNBA https://web.archive.org/web/20080509153954/http://www.wnba.com/history/alltime_draft_list.html May 9, 2008 dead Specific Category:WNBA draft Draft WNBA draft