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2008 WNBA draft

2008 meeting of WNBA teams to select players

Field	Value
name	2008 WNBA draft
sport	Basketball
date	April 9, 2008
location	Tampa, Florida
network	ESPN2, NBATV, ESPNU
league	WNBA
expansion_teams	Atlanta Dream
first	Candace Parker
Los Angeles Sparks
prev	[2007](2007-wnba-draft)
next	[2009](2009-wnba-draft)

Los Angeles Sparks

The WNBA draft is the league's annual process for determining which Women's National Basketball Association teams receive the rights to negotiate with players entering the league. The 2008 draft was held on April 9.

A lottery was held on October 23, 2007. The Los Angeles Sparks received the first overall selection of the upcoming 2008 draft. The Chicago Sky received the number two selection. The Minnesota Lynx came up with the third overall selection, followed by the Atlanta Dream expansion franchise at four, the Houston Comets at number five, and the Washington Mystics at number six. Some of the top draftees were Candace Parker, Sylvia Fowles, Candice Wiggins, Crystal Langhorne, and Tasha Humphrey.

Top pick Candace Parker went on to become the first WNBA player to be the league's Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season. Fourth pick Alexis Hornbuckle became the first person to win a national championship in college (with the University of Tennessee) and a WNBA title (with the Detroit Shock) in the same calendar year.

A separate expansion draft for the Atlanta Dream took place on February 6, 2008.

Transactions

Main article: List of 2008 WNBA season transactions

The Detroit Shock held the eleventh pick in round one as part of the Katie Feenstra/Ruth Riley trade in February 2007.
The San Antonio Silver Stars held the twenty-first pick as part of 2007 WNBA draft trade with the New York Liberty that involved Becky Hammon.
On February 6, 2008, the Atlanta Dream traded the number four pick to the Seattle Storm along with Roneeka Hodges for the eighth pick and Iziane Castro Marques.
On February 6, 2008, the Atlanta Dream traded the eighteenth pick and LaToya Thomas to the Detroit Shock for Ivory Latta.
On February 19, 2008, the Seattle Storm traded the fourth pick to the Detroit Shock for Swin Cash.
On February 19, 2008, the Connecticut Sun acquired the Indiana Fever's twelfth overall pick in a Tamika Whitmore/Katie Douglas trade.

Key

Draft

Round 1

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
1	Candace Parker *		Los Angeles Sparks	Tennessee
2	Sylvia Fowles * ^ !	Chicago Sky	LSU
3	Candice Wiggins	Minnesota Lynx	Stanford
4	Alexis Hornbuckle	Detroit Shock (from Atlanta, via Seattle){{refn	February 6, 2008: Atlanta to Seattle	Tennessee
5	Matee Ajavon	Houston Comets	Rutgers
6	Crystal Langhorne *	Washington Mystics	Maryland
7	Essence Carson +	New York Liberty	Rutgers
8	Tamera Young	Atlanta Dream (from Seattle)	James Madison
9	Amber Holt	Connecticut Sun	Middle Tennessee
10	Laura Harper	Sacramento Monarchs	Maryland
11	Tasha Humphrey	Detroit Shock (from San Antonio)	Georgia
12	Ketia Swanier	Connecticut Sun (from Indiana)	Connecticut
13	LaToya Pringle	Phoenix Mercury	North Carolina
14	Erlana Larkins	New York Liberty (from Detroit)

Round 2

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
15	Shannon Bobbitt		Los Angeles Sparks	Tennessee
16	Nicky Anosike +	Minnesota Lynx
17	Erica White	Houston Comets	LSU
18	Olayinka Sanni		Detroit Shock (from Atlanta){{refn	February 6, 2008: Atlanta to Detroit	West Virginia
19	Quianna Chaney		Chicago Sky	LSU
20	Lindsey Pluimer #	Washington Mystics	UCLA
21	Chioma Nnamaka		San Antonio Silver Stars (from New York)	Georgia Tech
22	Allie Quigley +		Seattle Storm	DePaul
23	Jolene Anderson	Connecticut Sun	Wisconsin
24	Morenike Atunrase	Atlanta Dream (from Indiana){{refn	February 6, 2008: Indiana to Atlanta	Texas A&M
25	Leilani Mitchell		Phoenix Mercury (from San Antonio)	Utah
26	Khadijah Whittington		Indiana Fever	North Carolina State
27	Wanisha Smith	New York Liberty (from Phoenix)	Duke
28	Natasha Lacy	Detroit Shock	UTEP

Round 3

Pick	Player	Nationality	Team	School / club team
29	Sharnee Zoll		Los Angeles Sparks	Virginia
30	Charde Houston +	Minnesota Lynx	Connecticut
31	Crystal Kelly	Houston Comets	Western Kentucky
32	Danielle Hood #	Atlanta Dream	Hartford
33	Angela Tisdale #	Chicago Sky	Baylor
34	Krystal Vaughn	Washington Mystics	VCU
35	Alberta Auguste #	New York Liberty	Tennessee
36	Kimberly Beck	Seattle Storm	George Washington
37	Lauren Ervin	Connecticut Sun	Arkansas
38	A'Quonesia Franklin	Sacramento Monarchs	Texas A&M
39	Alex Anderson #	San Antonio Silver Stars	Chattanooga
40	Izabela Piekarska #		Sacramento Monarchs (from Indiana)	UTEP
41	Marscilla Packer #		Phoenix Mercury	Ohio State
42	Valeriya Berezhynska		Detroit Shock	Rice
43	Charel Allen		Sacramento Monarchs	Notre Dame

Footnotes

References

"Atlanta Dream Build Inaugural Roster With 13 Picks In 2008 Expansion Draft".
(February 19, 2008). "Storm acquires Swin Cash from Detroit Shock". [[The Seattle Times]].
(February 6, 2008). "Atlanta Dream adds Lennox in WNBA expansion draft, trades for Latta, Castro Marques". ESPN.

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