The 2007 WNBA

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was the league's annual

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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

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, the teams' chances were weighted so that the team with the worst record, in this case the

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, 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

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, 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. 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

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, the day after the 2007 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament ended. This draft marked the first WNBA draft ever held outside of

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. Additionally, on January 8, 2007, the WNBA held a dispersal draft to re-assign players from the

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who folded at the end of

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