In the WNBA’s Early Days, Houston’s Comets Came Around Every Year
As the WNBA begins its twenty-fifth season, the league’s first dynasty still resonates in Texas and throughout the world of women’s basketball.
May 14, 2021
Cynthia Cooper and the Houston Comets after clinching the 1999 WNBA Finals at the Compaq Center.
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On August 26, 2000, the Houston Comets won the WNBA title. This was no surprise; four seasons into the league’s existence, the Comets were the only champions it had known. But the game, the second in a best-of-three Finals against the New York Liberty, was nevertheless the purest form of sports spectacle: virtuosic, tense, and saturated with emotional subtext.