Subscribe to Full Court PressLiberty Take Powell With Top Pick in Monarchs’ Dispersal Draft
By Lee Michaelson
Publisher
Full Court got it exactly right in predicting the selections for today’s WNBA dispersal draft of the now-defunct Sacramento Monarchs. (See Slim Pickin’s.)
The New York Liberty selected 6-2 forward and six=year WNBA veteran Nicole Powell (Stanford) with the first pick. The Minnesota Lynx followed by picking 6-3 forward Rebekkah Brunson (Georgetown) second.
The Connecticut Sun opted for immediate production over an investment in the future, taking 6-3 forward and 10-year pro DeMya Walker (Virginia) with the third pick. Chicago now has a back-up for the talented but injury-prone Sylvia Fowles, as the Sky used the fourth pick to take 6-3 forward/center Courtney Paris (Oklahoma), who will enter her second year in the pros this summer.
Six-four forward/center Laura Harper (Maryland) will spend her third year in the league in San Antonio, who picked her fifth.
The Mystics wound up with 5-8 guard Kristin Haynie (Michigan State, five years pro) and Tulsa got Scholanda Robinson, a 5-11 guard four years out of LSU, courtesy of the Detroit Shock’s No. 7 pick.
At that point the pickings got so slim that both the Los Angeles Sparks and the Atlanta Dream passed on their picks. The Seattle Storm took 5-11 guard Chelsea Newton, a five-year vet out of Rutgers, after which it was passes all around.
Kara Lawson, Ticha Penicheiro and Hamchetou Maiga-Ba are unrestricted free agents and were not on the board in the dispersal draft.
Full Court got it exactly right in predicting the selections for today’s WNBA dispersal draft of the now-defunct Sacramento Monarchs. (See Slim Pickin’s.)
The New York Liberty selected 6-2 forward and six=year WNBA veteran Nicole Powell (Stanford) with the first pick. The Minnesota Lynx followed by picking 6-3 forward Rebekkah Brunson (Georgetown) second.
The Connecticut Sun opted for immediate production over an investment in the future, taking 6-3 forward and 10-year pro DeMya Walker (Virginia) with the third pick. Chicago now has a back-up for the talented but injury-prone Sylvia Fowles, as the Sky used the fourth pick to take 6-3 forward/center Courtney Paris (Oklahoma), who will enter her second year in the pros this summer.
Six-four forward/center Laura Harper (Maryland) will spend her third year in the league in San Antonio, who picked her fifth.
The Mystics wound up with 5-8 guard Kristin Haynie (Michigan State, five years pro) and Tulsa got Scholanda Robinson, a 5-11 guard four years out of LSU, courtesy of the Detroit Shock’s No. 7 pick.
At that point the pickings got so slim that both the Los Angeles Sparks and the Atlanta Dream passed on their picks. The Seattle Storm took 5-11 guard Chelsea Newton, a five-year vet out of Rutgers, after which it was passes all around.
Kara Lawson, Ticha Penicheiro and Hamchetou Maiga-Ba are unrestricted free agents and were not on the board in the dispersal draft.
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Originally published Mon, December 14, 2009
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