The
Houston Comets are an American womens
basketball team. The are based at the
Compaq Center[?] in
Houston, Texas and were formed in
1997.
- Red, white and blue home with a C simulating a comet, name comets in white and a WNBA ball. Red and blue on the road
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000
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. 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
Theresa 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 dinasty. 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. The Comets have always been coached by
Van Canchellor[?].
- Kim Perrot
- Cynthia Cooper