Houston Comets
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The Houston Comets are a Women's National Basketball Association team. They are based at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and were formed in 1997.
They now play in Sugar Land, Texas.
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Uniform
- Red, white and blue home with a C simulating a comet, name comets in white and a WNBA basketball. Red and blue on the road
Playoff history
Playoff Appearances: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Conference Championships: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
WNBA Championships: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
History
The Comets were one of the original teams in the WNBA. They capped off a good inaugural season in 1997 with a win over the New York Liberty in the WNBA championship game to win the WNBA's first championship. When the league expanded the next season, the Comets were moved from the Eastern Conference to the Western Conference. In 1998, they repeated the championship, although by then the championship game had been extended into a three game championship series. They beat the Phoenix Mercury in the finals that year.
In 1999, led by what was already known as the Big Three, (Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthia Cooper and Tina Thompson), the Comets survived a highlight film last second, court to court game winning shot by the Liberty's Teresa Weatherspoon in game two of the finals to beat the Liberty in three games and win their third straight title, this one after the death of teammate Kim Perrot, who died of cancer.
In 2000, the Comets went all the way to the finals again, and beat the Liberty in two games to win their fourth title in a row, becoming known as a sports dynasty. But after losing Cooper to retirement in 2001, they were able to reach only the quarterfinals, and in 2002, when Swoopes was injured most of the year with a broken ankle, they lost at the Quarterfinals again. They missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history in 2004. The Comets have always been coached by Van Chancellor.
Retired numbers
- 10 Kim Perrot
Hall of Famers
- Van Chancellor (coach)
Not to be forgotten
- Kim Perrot
- Cynthia Cooper, now coaches the women's basketball team at Prairie View A&M University
Current stars
Current roster (as of May 13, 2005)
Backcourt
- #9
Janeth Arcain; (Brazil)
- #25
Dominique Canty; (Alabama)
- #32 Jenni Dant; (DePaul)
- #5 Roneeka Hodges; (Florida State)
- #13 Sheila Lambert; (Baylor)
- #12 Nicky McCrimmon; (USC)
- #34 Felicia Ragland; (Oregon State)
Frontcourt
- #31 Octavia Blue; (Miami, FL)
- #15 Adrienne Goodson; (Old Dominion University)
- #41 Pollyanna Johns Kimbrough; (Michigan)
- #23 LaTonya Johnson; (Memphis)
- Tiffani Johnson; (Tennessee)
- #21 Sancho Lyttle; (Houston
- #24 Tari Phillips; (UCF)
- #52 Kristen Rasmussen; (Michigan State)
- Tracy Reid; (North Carolina)
- #2 Michelle Snow; (Tennessee)
- #22 Sheryl Swoopes; (Texas Tech)
- #7 Tina Thompson; (USC)
External links
- Comets website (http://www.wnba.com/comets)