2004 WNBA dispersal draft

{{Infobox sports draft

| name = 2004 WNBA dispersal draft

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| sport = Basketball

| date = January 6, 2004

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| league = WNBA

| teams =

| merging_teams = Cleveland Rockers (folded in 2003)

| first = Penny Taylor
Phoenix Mercury

| prev = 2003

| next = 2007

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The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) held a second dispersal draft on January 6, 2004.{{cite web |title=2004 Dispersal Draft Preview |url=https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/features/04dispersal_preview.html |website=WNBA |date=January 5, 2004 |access-date=May 24, 2025}}

This dispersal draft re-assigned players from the Cleveland Rockers who folded after the end of 2003 WNBA season.{{cite web |title=Darling goes to Lynx in dispersal draft |url=https://www.espn.com/wnba/news/2004/0106/1701736.html |work=ESPN |date=January 6, 2004 |access-date=May 24, 2025}} The remaining thirteen teams in the WNBA each selected one player from the 2003 Rockers roster in the one-round draft.{{cite web |title=2004 WNBA Dispersal Draft Recap |url=https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/features/dispersalrecap_040506.html |website=WNBA |date=|access-date=May 24, 2025}} Teams drafted in inverse order of their 2003 regular season finish.

Key

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|width="50"|Pos.

width="50"|G

width="50"|F

width="50"|C

Position

Guard

Forward

Center

Draft

The following players were drafted from the Cleveland Rockers:

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style="width:5%;"\| Pick ! style="width:20%;"\| Player ! style="width:5%;"\| Position ! style="width:20%;"\| Nationality ! style="width:25%;"\| New team
1 \| bgcolor=#FFFF99\| Penny Taylor * ^ \| F \| {{AUS}} \| Phoenix Mercury
2 \| bgcolor=#FFCC00\| Chasity Melvin ⁺ \| C/F \| rowspan=2\| {{USA}} \| Washington Mystics
3 \| LaToya Thomas \| F \| San Antonio Silver Stars
4 \| bgcolor=#FFCC00\| Ann Wauters ⁺ \| C \| {{BEL}} \| New York Liberty
5 \| Deanna Jackson \| F \| rowspan=6\| {{USA}} \| Indiana Fever
6 \| bgcolor=#FBCEB1\| Betty Lennox * \| G \| Seattle Storm
7 \| Helen Darling \| G \| Minnesota Lynx
8 \| Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough \| C \| Houston Comets {{small\|(from Connecticut)}}{{cite web \|title=Comets Pick Up Two In Dispersal Draft \|url=https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/comets/news/Comets_Pick_Up_Two_In_Dispersa-95235-222.html \|website=WNBA \|date=January 6, 2004 \|access-date=May 24, 2025}}
9 \| Mery Andrade \| F \| Charlotte Sting
10 \| bgcolor=#C0C0C0\| Jennifer Butler ^# \| C \| Sacramento Monarchs
11 \| Lucienne Berthieu \| F/C \| rowspan=2\| {{FRA}} \| Houston Comets
12 \| Isabelle Fijalkowski \| C \| Los Angeles Sparks
13 \| bgcolor=#FFFF99\| Jennifer Rizzotti ^ \| G \| {{USA}} \| Detroit Shock

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style="width:5%;"| Pick

! style="width:20%;"| Player

! style="width:5%;"| Position

! style="width:20%;"| Nationality

! style="width:25%;"| New team

| bgcolor=#FFFF99| Penny Taylor * ^

| F

| {{AUS}}

| Phoenix Mercury

| bgcolor=#FFCC00| Chasity Melvin ⁺

| C/F

| rowspan=2| {{USA}}

| Washington Mystics

| LaToya Thomas

| F

| San Antonio Silver Stars

| bgcolor=#FFCC00| Ann Wauters ⁺

| C

| {{BEL}}

| New York Liberty

| Deanna Jackson

| F

| rowspan=6| {{USA}}

| Indiana Fever

| bgcolor=#FBCEB1| Betty Lennox *

| G

| Seattle Storm

| Helen Darling

| G

| Minnesota Lynx

| Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough

| C

| Houston Comets {{small|(from Connecticut)}}{{cite web |title=Comets Pick Up Two In Dispersal Draft |url=https://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/comets/news/Comets_Pick_Up_Two_In_Dispersa-95235-222.html |website=WNBA |date=January 6, 2004 |access-date=May 24, 2025}}

| Mery Andrade

| F

| Charlotte Sting

| bgcolor=#C0C0C0| Jennifer Butler ^#

| C

| Sacramento Monarchs

| Lucienne Berthieu

| F/C

| rowspan=2| {{FRA}}

| Houston Comets

| Isabelle Fijalkowski

| C