The 1997 WNBA Draft was the first annual draft held by the WNBA through which teams could select new players from a talent pool of college and professional women's basketball players. Unlike later drafts, this draft was unique because there were three different stages in which teams built their rosters. First on January 22, 1997, the Initial Player Allocation draft took place in which 16 players were assigned to each team in no particular order. The Elite Draft portion comprised professional women's basketball players who had competed in other leagues, usually international leagues. On February 27, 1997, an Elite Draft added two more players to each team. On April 28, 1997 the four rounds of the regular WNBA draft took place.
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