2009 WNBA dispersal draft

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) held their fourth dispersal draft on December 8, 2008.^[1][2]

On December 1, 2008, the league announced that the Houston Comets would no longer be in operation.^[3] The dispersal draft was held on December 8 to re-assign players from the 2008 Comets roster.^[4] The remaining thirteen teams in the WNBA each selected one player from the team's final roster in the one-round draft.^[5] Teams drafted in inverse order of their 2008 regular season finish.^[4] All Comets players were available except for unrestricted free agents, Latasha Byears, Mwadi Mabika, Hamchetou Maiga-Ba, Michelle Snow, and Tina Thompson.^[1]

Lucienne Berthieu, Tamecka Dixon, Shannon Johnson, and Polina Tzekova were not selected in the draft and became free agents on January 5, 2009.^[1]

The following players were drafted from the roster of the Houston Comets:

Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	New team
1	Sancho Lyttle +	F/C	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Atlanta Dream
2	Matee Ajavon	G	United States	Washington Mystics
3	Mistie Williams	F		Chicago Sky
4	Roneeka Hodges	G		Minnesota Lynx
5	Sequoia Holmes	G		Phoenix Mercury
6	Erica White	G		Indiana Fever
7	Renae Camino	G	Australia	Sacramento Monarchs
8	No selection	—	—	New York Liberty
9				Los Angeles Sparks
10				Connecticut Sun
11				Detroit Shock
12				Seattle Storm
13				San Antonio Silver Stars