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2009 WNBA Dispersal Draft
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) held their fourth dispersal draft on December 8, 2008. On December 1, 2008, the league announced that the Houston Comets would no longer be in operation. The dispersal draft was held on December 8 to re-assign players from the 2008 Comets roster. The remaining thirteen teams in the WNBA each selected one player from the team's final roster in the one-round draft. Teams drafted in inverse order of their 2008 regular season finish. All Comets players were available except for unrestricted free agents, Latasha Byears, Mwadi Mabika, Hamchetou Maiga-Ba, Michelle Snow, and Tina Thompson. Lucienne Berthieu, Tamecka Dixon, Shannon Johnson, and Polina Tzekova were not selected in the draft and became free agents on January 5, 2009. Key {, class="wikitable" {, class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" , width="50", Pos., , width="50", G, , width="50", F, , width="50", C , - , Position, , Guard, , Forward, , Center Draft Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 WNBA Season
The 2009 WNBA season was the 13th season of the Women's National Basketball Association. It is the first WNBA season without a Houston franchise, the Houston Comets, Comets having folded in December 2008. The season ended with the Phoenix Mercury winning their second championship in three years. The regular season began with a televised (American Broadcasting Company, ABC) meeting between the defending champion Detroit Shock and the Los Angeles Sparks in Los Angeles on June 6. The Connecticut Sun hosted the 2009 WNBA All-Star Game, 9th Annual All-Star Game which was broadcast live on American Broadcasting Company, ABC (high-definition television, HD) on July 25. 2008–2009 WNBA offseason *The new television deal with ESPN will begin during the 2009 season. For the first time ever, teams will be paid rights fees as part of this deal. *As of the 2009 season, the maximum roster size per team is reduced from 13 to 11. Any team that falls below nine players able to play due to injur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |