The Comets were the first dynasty in the W. It’s a shame that this franchise went away along with their history. Those teams were special and they should be celebrated more.
@willieduffie4967 I kinda found out by accident or completely forgot. We moved from Orange County to the Houston area 3 years ago. We took out daughter to a Sparks game so I was like ah yeah we can take her to plenty of Comets games now that she's older. I was searching and digging into the history like how in the heck did that happen.
Kim was a little firecracker!! I still remember the day she announced her cancer, along with the day she died, like it happened yesterday. I was a junior in HS. The year before, i met and took pictures with Kim and Cynthia Cooper at AstroWorld❤❤
@@mrjayblack2145 You really are tripping NBC laid out a gauntlet of how you produce a new league by supporting it with NBA analysis and NBA broadcasters and commentators NBC has always been the best place when it comes to Sports Production NFL NBA and NHL
@@CharlesHolloman-mj5hy but it doesn't make it bigger than now maybe better cause 80s 90s women are not these 2000 women they were goats but popularity wise it's now this year not last year 😂
@@mrjayblack2145 The Key is NBC... NBC Sports Production on NBA WNBA is by far more superior than the other networks... Just listen to the old NBA theme song... You really must have just started following the leagues
But Swoopes was still the league biggest star. Swoopes won more regular season M.V.Ps and defensive players of the year and was always number in all star voting
Cynthia Cooper was the Jordan of the WNBA. When it was crunch time Cooper always delivered. The chemistry between Tina, Swoopes, Cooper, Kim, Arcane, Coach Chancellor etc. Unreal
The WNBA's biggest problem is that the players come across as giant assholes just about every time they get any publicity. They desperately need media/publicity training to not be so insufferably confrontational.
As a Houstonian I have to say these were the best times of my life. I was in my 20s, my son was young.. The Rockets won back2back 94-95, then the Comets picked up where they left off. We celebrated 6 championships in such a short time. Great memories! ❤
That's why you have to enjoy it as long as you can because ain't no telling. NBA team can't get right, baseball team is a bunch of cheaters and your football team was blind sided by a barrage of masseuse.
@freddyp319 Oh we had a blast! Astros don't need to cheat to win, they're in the alcs every year.. And I hate the Texans, never supported them. I'm a Lions fan. 💪🏼
Them glory Dynasty of the Houston Coments 1997-2000 i grew up watching playing. They was exciting to watch Big 3 play and the fighting spirit of Kim Perrot R.I.P. They probably would of won more 2-3 more Championship in a row if Kim P. Was still alive.
Had the pleasure of Tina Thompson being a close family friend when I was a kid. Everybody thought it was adorable to have big Tina & little Tina hang out. Luckily this was right in the middle of the 4-peat. Some of my best memories are her taking me to comet events, getting me from the stands & taking me in to the locker room after games. All the ladies were so sweet to me (especially Lisa & Cynthia). But, Kim was my favorite she always took the time to play with me when I was around. She was the biggest goofball! Her passing is one of the first deaths I remember hitting close to home. The comets will always have a special place in my heart
The Comets were to the WNBA what the Chicago Bulls were to the NBA in the 90's. The Comets are the greatest dynasty in WNBA history. At that time, the 90's were the haydays for Houston. The Rockets won back-to-back titles, the Comets four-peated, the Astros were in the playoffs in three straight years after missing out the last decade. We even had two movies made in our city (Reality Bites & Apollo 13). The one downside was the Oilers leaving, but we knew we would be getting an NFL team back.
The Shock were fun to watch. I'm a Comets fan but Detroit's last to first storyline is one of the greats. Not to mention Tweety Nolan, Cash, Ford man they had a great team.
Doubt it. There’s no more super teams it was barely any teams all the good players on one team so stop the cap nobody watched and this league has been losing money since the beginning and they only got paid because nba was supporting. I def want them to win but let’s tell the truth
@Traumadj What you said is completely false the top 10 most watched WNBA games are between the years 1997 to 2000 with ratings from 2.4 million to 5 million viewers, To put that in persepective Caitlin Clark highest WNBA game was 2.3 Million.
@@commonsense3921 i didn't say anything about views bro....of course views are better now when you can watch from the palm of your hands...I mean talent wise....women in the 90's would absolutely walk over today's players
@@Traumadj there was no super team when it 1st started lol....and I still stand by what I said...talent wise....these ladies of today can not hold up vs 90's women who were faster...better verticals....stronger and actually had bags like nba players....women today don't have much athleticism
Probably because coop had spent 10 years playing overseas. The players that they were banking on were mostly from the 96 Olympic team. I’m glad they underestimated coop cuz I’m from Houston and she was one of my favorite basketball players growing up.
@@Mark_Ellzy This and she was kind of a role player in college (albeit on a GREAT college team) and played alongside Cheryl Miller (in my view, the GOAT of women's hoops) and Pam McGee. And there was no streaming on internet back when she was playing overseas, so no one really saw her.
Cynithia Cooper is the GOAT, no doubt. She started in the league at age 34. Won (4) championships and was MVP of all (4) championship games while playing with another HoFamer Cheryl Swoopes, even Jordan would marvel at that. No other female player has accomplished those feats.
Some trivia- the last home game for the Comets wasn't even *in* Houston. Because of Hurricane Ike blowing through the area, they were forced to relocate it to Strahan Coliseum, on the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos.
@@mainetain15 EVERY NBA SHOULD SUPPORT A WNBA TEAM 5 YEARS. THEN FLIP IT AND SELL TO AMAZING AND STABLE HOME GROWN OWNERSHIP GROUPS... HAWKS AND DREAM CELTICS AND SHAMROX-NEW NETS AND LIBERTY HORNETS AND STING 2.0 BULLS AND SKY CAVS AND ROCKERS 2.0 PISTONS AND SHOCK 2.0 PACERS AND FEVER HEAT AND VIBE-NEW BUCKS AND a team in Wisconsin or Iowa. KNICKS AND a team in Upstate or in New Jersey. MAGIC AND MIRACLE 76ERS AND BELLS-NEW RAPTORS AND HUSKIES WIZARDS AND MYSTICS. MAVS AND WINGS NUGGETS AND DYNAMITE-NEW WARRIORS AND VALKYRIE ROCKETS AND COMETS 2.0 CLIPPERS AND a team in SD LAKERS AND SPARKS GRIZZLIES AND a team in Tennessee TIMBERWOLVES AND LYNX PELICANS AND a team in Louisiana or Mississippi. THUNDER AND a team in Oklahoma or Kansas. SUNS AND MERCURY BLAZERS AND FIRE 2.0 KINGS AND MONARCHS 2.0 SPURS ANS SILVER STARS 2.0 JAZZ AND STAZZ 2.0 or HONEYZZ
@@liduck52I wish they would go to basketball season and work some double headers with towns that have a NBA team. They could be the early game. Do some double admissions. Idk, just an idea to help them grow
Swoopes,Thompson & Cooper.... Easily the WNBA'S GREATEST TRIO !!!! 4 Championships in a row.... darn I miss them ALL..... Cooper: Jordan. Swoopes: K. Leonard & Thompson: K. Durant
You forget that the owner stated he didn't want to support having lesbians as role models for his daughters. I remember being shocked that he would say that. But there was no cancel culture back then.
Cynthia Cooper was the TRUTH! Everyone was hootin and hollerin about Swoopes being the best in the league when she wasn’t even the best on her team. Watching Cooper in real time really felt like watching Jordan. You just couldn’t imagine her losing.
I’m a Houstonian and was (still am) a die hard Comets fan. I think if they’d won the 2008 draft lottery and got Candace Parker instead of the Sparks. The league would have had an incentive to keep them around and fan support would have definitely skyrocketed back to the dynasty years. I look forward to when they return (and they will) Houston is too large of a tv market to not have a team.
Gratitude Peace to the players before The WNBA and The WNBA players who paved the way for today's game. Peace to Kim Perrot. Peace to Nikki Kesangane McCray-Penson.
The issue has been money. You can't create teams out of thin air, they must get financed. Hopefully, with the excitement and attention this rookie class brought in that'll change and these ladies can get more opportunities to play.
@@anthonyemerson2965 it’s representative of how bad this women sport is compared to other sports. Women’s basketball as it exists in the current form is terrible. They need to sex it up for male audiences because women do not care much for women sports.
I need a full docuseries with interviews. Give me a 30 for 30 like the Bulls got. The Cometa were my team. I had the gear, ball, and cards I remember when the WNBA hosted it's only game in my home state. I was an excited kid. I still have signed cards.
Same for the Detroit Shock. Was real neat to have them. Went to a few games, and saw their championship game at The Palace in 03'. They need to come back too.
Yeah since they relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma after owner Bill Davidson died and now in Dallas...the "Bad Girls" era when they had Swin Cash, Deanna "Tweety" Nolan and Cheryl Ford and under coach Bill Laimbeer (yes, one of the Pistons' Bad Boys) won three titles
I'm late, I just found this. I got a little story I'd like to tell. I had the opportunity, just briefly, to be in the same area as Kim Perrot as she was at Houston Intercontinental Airport. I was picking up someone at the arrivals pickup at Terminal C and... there she was. A little across the way. This was when she was already in the throes of her cancer treatment. Not wanting to bother her, but still wanting to encourage her to fight and show appreciation for what she had and still was doing for Houston, I yelled to her "YOU GOT THIS, KIM!" She smiled and waved at me, and that was that. My single moment with Kim, hoping to help in whatever way, even just sending her love. I wish it had been enough. It obviously wasn't, and she passed away later. :( But still, what we got to see, what she meant to all of Houston at the time... Yep. She was special. #3 for #10.
I wish that more people could watch this documentary and learn about the history of the WNBA. Nothing that is happening in the WNBA now is unprecedented; the WNBA was way more popular in the late 90s early 2000, and some of the great players were superstars who had shoe deals and were all over national TV like NBC. The most viewed and attended games in the WNBA history were in the 90 as well, and these records still stand.
If you look at the records that are being set this season, a lot of them say most ...... since the 90's. Now, that 20k attendance a few weeks ago is crazy. We're back
See I didn’t even know this. So the W fumbled the bag with essentially the greatest WNBA team of all time smh 🤦🏾♂️. They are definitely about to mess up what they got going we Clark
Correction, the owner who bought the team fumbled them. He didn’t invest in marketing, he moved them to a smaller arena that was out of the way, which hurt attendance and simply left them to rot during the 2008 recession. NBA teams have suffered the same fate in the past. Ownership makes a world of difference in sports. The Aces are a prime example of that.
@@Idontwannaknowu23 It's weird how two of the worst owners in all of men's sports are two of the best owners in women's sports (Mark Davis for the Aces, and Glen Taylor for the Lynx)
@@FirearmofMutiny very true. My only issue with Davis is that he changed the Aces colors and uniform design to match the Raiders. Other than that he has done very well with them.
@@jamesbethley4972 the main problem is not owners but the play and looks of the WNBA. They all lose money forever. The attractiveness of the WNBA is not there. We have to remember that sports are entertainment no different than clown shows or strip shows. Attractiveness comes in the form of good play and sexual appeal. If the play isn’t that good, then you need to improve the sexual appeal. Women’s sports thrives on sexual appeal. Athleticism is not what brings the attention for women sports.
I've long wondered what happened to the Houston Comets, the 1st dynasty in professional women's 🏀. Now, I know. It's such a sad story. The Comets were my team! (At least in the 🌎 of professional women's sports.) Once Copper retired and Swoops got hurt, things were never the same for this legendary franchise. I hope Houston will one day get another pro-women's basketball team. They deserve a sencond chance at it.
Same happened to the Detroit shock. 3 time champs and somehow we lost them to another city. After the comets and spark Detroit was the next top tier team.
This was the LIKABLE team. This team had no outside ego, no demanding for political anything, no trying to compare things to the men. They went out, played ball, had charisma that most NBA players could never dream of, and beat out everyone. End of story. THIS is when the WNBA was good. Not because of the Comets and the dynasty, but because they were enjoyable to watch. Rest in Peace Kim Perrot. #3 for #10
This is when I loved watching the WNBA. CC is the GOAT. And it’s not even close. She was 5 or 6 years past her prime when the WNBA kicked off and was STILL the best in the game.
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The Comets were the first dynasty in the W. It’s a shame that this franchise went away along with their history. Those teams were special and they should be celebrated more.
Damn Right 👍
@willieduffie4967 I kinda found out by accident or completely forgot. We moved from Orange County to the Houston area 3 years ago. We took out daughter to a Sparks game so I was like ah yeah we can take her to plenty of Comets games now that she's older. I was searching and digging into the history like how in the heck did that happen.
LONG LIVE THE SEATTLE PILOTS!!!!
I don't understand how this happened I literally just found out Houston lost there franchise
@@MrSoulauctioneer was that a wnba team too
So sad that Kim Perrot died that young. RIP
Kim was a little firecracker!! I still remember the day she announced her cancer, along with the day she died, like it happened yesterday. I was a junior in HS. The year before, i met and took pictures with Kim and Cynthia Cooper at AstroWorld❤❤
@@MsKylea Kim Perrot was the key that kept the team on point.
Cynthia cooper the goat.
@@Wise-o.g.one of
@@williesaunders6798 respect.who else at her age did what she did?
Nah they need to bring back the Houston Comets along with their history.
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Houston would burn it again 😢
All the old teams need to be brought back whenever the next expansion is
I also hope they bring back the Miami sol. This kind of reminds me of the basketball team, the New Jersey gems long before there was even a WNBA.
Thank goodness the Rockets still have the Comets banners in the rafters
we need a 30 for 30
Yes for sure
Most definitely
Considering what I watched, this is the “30 for 30”. Great job here 💯
They do
Agreed
If there is ANY WNBA team that deserves a rebirth? It's them.
No. They Lost their team from Not showing up right?
@@rgtunderworldrgt7773didn’t the nba have a whole lock out year
Detroit shock to
@@jaybrick8973the Detroit Shock are now the Dallas Wings
Detroit Shock 🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️ Every sport in America should have a team for Detroit in my biased opinion.😂😂😂
Houston was noooo joke in the beginning of the W.
Not one joke. They were special
Houston vs LA
Houston vs NY
That was something to build the league behind then they blew it.
The whole league is a joke.
RIP Kim P. #BringBackTheComets ☄️
After a refreshing Chicago Bulls championship season, the Houston Comets were fun to watch. Cooper, Thompson and Swoopes were amazing.
The league had more buzz and hype in the early years then it has had in recent years.NBC knew how to push the NBA/WNBA.
No bigger than now
@@mrjayblack2145It actually was. Just didn’t have the technology and social media to boost it.
@@mrjayblack2145 You really are tripping NBC laid out a gauntlet of how you produce a new league by supporting it with NBA analysis and NBA broadcasters and commentators NBC has always been the best place when it comes to Sports Production NFL NBA and NHL
@@CharlesHolloman-mj5hy but it doesn't make it bigger than now maybe better cause 80s 90s women are not these 2000 women they were goats but popularity wise it's now this year not last year 😂
@@mrjayblack2145 The Key is NBC... NBC Sports Production on NBA WNBA is by far more superior than the other networks... Just listen to the old NBA theme song... You really must have just started following the leagues
Cooper was Jordan, not Swoopes. The WNBA couldn't have asked for a better start.
But Swoopes was still the league biggest star. Swoopes won more regular season M.V.Ps and defensive players of the year and was always number in all star voting
@@andresgirardo8481 Cooper was Magic Johnson, Swoopes was Michael Jordan, Tina Thompson was Larry Bird.
4x champion, 4x finals MVP, 2x regular season MVP, 3x scoring leader. WNBA debut at 34 yo. Cooper was Jordan.
They wasn’t there so they don’t know!!! We folks from Houston that was there know how great Coop was!!! The female Jordan
Swoopes the biggest star and the best player on the team. How was Coop the MJ of the W?
Cynthia Cooper was the Jordan of the WNBA. When it was crunch time Cooper always delivered. The chemistry between Tina, Swoopes, Cooper, Kim, Arcane, Coach Chancellor etc. Unreal
yeah coop wunn’ bullsh!t’n wit em ✌🏿🔥🔥🔥
They talk about Manu bringing the euro step to the NBA, but it was coop that first brought it to the US....
FACTS
Cynthia Cooper is so underrated in these women's GOAT conversations! She was a beast!
Totally agree! I have the utmost respect for Cynthia Cooper and those Comets teams were beautiful to watch
Especially when you factor in at the time the W started..coop was past her prime. Can’t imagine her if she had played from age 26-30 in the W.
Cynthia Cooper is the Michael Jordan of the wnba.
💯👍🏾👏🏾
100% those comets teams were loaded and she was easily their best player; but it seems that no one remembers her and how good she was
I do. I knew her fathers family.@@dirtmike6258
@@dirtmike6258I remember. Still the best player in the history of the WNBA.
I've always said this! She was smooth and unstoppable.....a lot of people forget about Coop
Broooo we need more WNBA docs! Please drop more stories on the league's history!!
Cynthia Coper is the GOAT.
The WNBA has had many missteps since their “golden era”…
The WNBA's biggest problem is that the players come across as giant assholes just about every time they get any publicity. They desperately need media/publicity training to not be so insufferably confrontational.
As a Houstonian I have to say these were the best times of my life. I was in my 20s, my son was young.. The Rockets won back2back 94-95, then the Comets picked up where they left off. We celebrated 6 championships in such a short time. Great memories! ❤
Used to love those Sparks -- Comets rivalry games .
That's why you have to enjoy it as long as you can because ain't no telling. NBA team can't get right, baseball team is a bunch of cheaters and your football team was blind sided by a barrage of masseuse.
Loved those early Comets teams.
@freddyp319 Oh we had a blast! Astros don't need to cheat to win, they're in the alcs every year.. And I hate the Texans, never supported them. I'm a Lions fan. 💪🏼
@@RADRICK19 Battered trash cans says otherwise
If Cynthia Cooper could have played in the WNBA when she was fresh outta college, she would have all the major records. She was the truth
Them glory Dynasty of the Houston Coments 1997-2000 i grew up watching playing. They was exciting to watch Big 3 play and the fighting spirit of Kim Perrot R.I.P. They probably would of won more 2-3 more Championship in a row if Kim P. Was still alive.
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Who knows? Cooper retired after the 4th title. Swoopes got injured and by then other teams had caught up to them. It was a great run they made.
That intro gave me the chills 🥶
Tina Thompson doesn't get the credit she deserves, one of if not the greatest WNBA player of all times! what couldn't she do on the court.
Them lips tho
Dawg I had a mad crazy crush on her lmao
@@jameelpitner8289 She doesn't, but Cynthia Cooper is the greatest WNBA player.
@@simonhowell4486
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They are the reason why so many star women ballers come out of Houston. They changed the culture
Had the pleasure of Tina Thompson being a close family friend when I was a kid. Everybody thought it was adorable to have big Tina & little Tina hang out. Luckily this was right in the middle of the 4-peat. Some of my best memories are her taking me to comet events, getting me from the stands & taking me in to the locker room after games. All the ladies were so sweet to me (especially Lisa & Cynthia). But, Kim was my favorite she always took the time to play with me when I was around. She was the biggest goofball! Her passing is one of the first deaths I remember hitting close to home. The comets will always have a special place in my heart
And AJ,A WILSON IS OUR BEST RIGHT NOW
I was wondering when someone would do this story. Thanks for uploading this!
That Houston Comets team was otherworldly 😮💨
I want my damn team back!!!
Me too
The Comets were to the WNBA what the Chicago Bulls were to the NBA in the 90's. The Comets are the greatest dynasty in WNBA history. At that time, the 90's were the haydays for Houston. The Rockets won back-to-back titles, the Comets four-peated, the Astros were in the playoffs in three straight years after missing out the last decade. We even had two movies made in our city (Reality Bites & Apollo 13). The one downside was the Oilers leaving, but we knew we would be getting an NFL team back.
I miss them and my Detroit Shock tbh
@@mickidoesmediathe Schock was full of bullies F them. Phoenix ended them
Kim Perot ......you show a lot of ❤️......when people mention this team.....you will always be remembered!
EXACTLY!!!
Facts!
Coop still the goat
CC was the truth. 🐐 of the WNBA
The ORIGINAL CC!!! ❤❤❤
Cooper was the premier player in the WNBA!!!!
Houston used to be it, they had a squad. Bring back the franchise. WNBA needs it.
100% with you but Players are too old though
The Greatest Basketball 🏀 Team In WNBA History. Swoops, Thompson And Cooper. Houston Comets 4 Straight Championship 🏆.
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Damn RIP to Kim P.
They was the WNBA 90's Bulls. Unstoppable. I miss our Detroit Shock too.
The Shock were fun to watch. I'm a Comets fan but Detroit's last to first storyline is one of the greats. Not to mention Tweety Nolan, Cash, Ford man they had a great team.
Look at those crowds tho.....and they think the WBNA just became what it is in 2024....these ladies would walk today's teams by an average of 30
Doubt it. There’s no more super teams it was barely any teams all the good players on one team so stop the cap nobody watched and this league has been losing money since the beginning and they only got paid because nba was supporting. I def want them to win but let’s tell the truth
@Traumadj What you said is completely false the top 10 most watched WNBA games are between the years 1997 to 2000 with ratings from 2.4 million to 5 million viewers, To put that in persepective Caitlin Clark highest WNBA game was 2.3 Million.
@@commonsense3921 i didn't say anything about views bro....of course views are better now when you can watch from the palm of your hands...I mean talent wise....women in the 90's would absolutely walk over today's players
@@Traumadj there was no super team when it 1st started lol....and I still stand by what I said...talent wise....these ladies of today can not hold up vs 90's women who were faster...better verticals....stronger and actually had bags like nba players....women today don't have much athleticism
@areoinstylz Have no idea why you responded to me.
Poor ownership led to the Comets demise.
I thought they made them breakup the team because they wanted more parity in the league
@@danielwiley9828no lol
Poor ownership + 2008 crash brought the cosmo crashing
@@Morocco21345 Yeah....the fanbase losing interest after they lost all their stars didn't help either.
Ive been spamming "Bring back the Houston Comets"!! Studied this era and it made me better.
Wait how didn't they know Cooper was that good? She was the leading scorer everywhere she went. I loved watching them
Probably because coop had spent 10 years playing overseas. The players that they were banking on were mostly from the 96 Olympic team. I’m glad they underestimated coop cuz I’m from Houston and she was one of my favorite basketball players growing up.
@@Mark_Ellzy This and she was kind of a role player in college (albeit on a GREAT college team) and played alongside Cheryl Miller (in my view, the GOAT of women's hoops) and Pam McGee. And there was no streaming on internet back when she was playing overseas, so no one really saw her.
Cynithia Cooper is the GOAT, no doubt. She started in the league at age 34. Won (4) championships and was MVP of all (4) championship games while playing with another HoFamer Cheryl Swoopes, even Jordan would marvel at that. No other female player has accomplished those feats.
just wait for the day the houston comets come back
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They'll be back at some point, someone will reactivate the team if the demand picks up
Maybe juju that would be wild in 3yrs from now if possible
They’ve already been working on it for at least two years
If any wnba franchise deserves to be revived and brought back it’s the Houston Comets
Some trivia- the last home game for the Comets wasn't even *in* Houston. Because of Hurricane Ike blowing through the area, they were forced to relocate it to Strahan Coliseum, on the campus of Texas State University in San Marcos.
They need a market in Houston, Philly and Boston. 2 of the largest franchises and markets in NBA don't have women's teams
They wouldn't draw in Boston. Everybody would stay home to watch the Red Sox on TV.
Bring baq da HOUSTON COMETS. PHILADELPHIA BELLS AND BOSTON SHAMROX OR CLOVERS.
@@mainetain15 EVERY NBA SHOULD SUPPORT A WNBA TEAM 5 YEARS. THEN FLIP IT AND SELL TO AMAZING AND STABLE HOME GROWN OWNERSHIP GROUPS...
HAWKS AND DREAM
CELTICS AND SHAMROX-NEW
NETS AND LIBERTY
HORNETS AND STING 2.0
BULLS AND SKY
CAVS AND ROCKERS 2.0
PISTONS AND SHOCK 2.0
PACERS AND FEVER
HEAT AND VIBE-NEW
BUCKS AND a team in Wisconsin or Iowa.
KNICKS AND a team in Upstate or in New Jersey.
MAGIC AND MIRACLE
76ERS AND BELLS-NEW
RAPTORS AND HUSKIES
WIZARDS AND MYSTICS.
MAVS AND WINGS
NUGGETS AND DYNAMITE-NEW
WARRIORS AND VALKYRIE
ROCKETS AND COMETS 2.0
CLIPPERS AND a team in SD
LAKERS AND SPARKS
GRIZZLIES AND a team in Tennessee
TIMBERWOLVES AND LYNX
PELICANS AND a team in Louisiana or Mississippi.
THUNDER AND a team in Oklahoma or Kansas.
SUNS AND MERCURY
BLAZERS AND FIRE 2.0
KINGS AND MONARCHS 2.0
SPURS ANS SILVER STARS 2.0
JAZZ AND STAZZ 2.0 or HONEYZZ
@@liduck52I wish they would go to basketball season and work some double headers with towns that have a NBA team. They could be the early game. Do some double admissions. Idk, just an idea to help them grow
Nah, no one is sitting in no stadium for 6 hours to watch both events. To help grow they need more talent, the game is still choppy right now.
The female Jordan was/ is Cynthia Cooper. Put some respect on her name.
Swoopes,Thompson & Cooper.... Easily the WNBA'S GREATEST TRIO !!!! 4 Championships in a row.... darn I miss them ALL..... Cooper: Jordan. Swoopes: K. Leonard & Thompson: K. Durant
I love the way Cooper used to raise the roof. We got next!
starting a go fund me to revive the Houston Comets.
😀😀😀😀
You forget that the owner stated he didn't want to support having lesbians as role models for his daughters. I remember being shocked that he would say that. But there was no cancel culture back then.
Cynthia Cooper was the TRUTH! Everyone was hootin and hollerin about Swoopes being the best in the league when she wasn’t even the best on her team. Watching Cooper in real time really felt like watching Jordan. You just couldn’t imagine her losing.
Man that team had 2 Micheal Jordan’s
cooper was jordan, swoopes was pippen
As a kid, Cynthia Copper had me raising the roof after I made a jump shot. The GOAT
“I like when they beg” - Michael jordan 😂😂😂
He was out of pocket for that.
I’m a Houstonian and was (still am) a die hard Comets fan. I think if they’d won the 2008 draft lottery and got Candace Parker instead of the Sparks. The league would have had an incentive to keep them around and fan support would have definitely skyrocketed back to the dynasty years. I look forward to when they return (and they will) Houston is too large of a tv market to not have a team.
Gratitude
Peace to the players before The WNBA and The WNBA players who paved the way for today's game.
Peace to Kim Perrot.
Peace to Nikki Kesangane McCray-Penson.
Peace to Margo Dydek, tallest player in WNBA history at 7'2"
The WNBA needs expansion. Im a Seattle Storm Fan but 12 Teams aint enough for how many talented Women there is.
Hopefully some of the todays billionaires will adopt that concept.
Facts
Two coming in the next two years
The issue has been money. You can't create teams out of thin air, they must get financed.
Hopefully, with the excitement and attention this rookie class brought in that'll change and these ladies can get more opportunities to play.
@@simonhowell4486 Two more teams coming!!! One next year in SF and another in 2026 in Toronto!
Interesting how Cooper become apart of the Comets and the commissioner admitting to not knowing how good she really was ….
They thought because of her age(34) she wouldn’t still be as good as she was . As a fan of that team, I’m glad they underestimated her lol
I used to watch the Wnba alot back in the 90s when Cynthia Cooper was the MJ of the W💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
Such a shame. Can you imagine if the Yankees or the Lakers just folded because of poor management?
The league probably wanted Houston gone
@@HeavyJ713But why would they want the first 4-peat team gone? It doesn't make sense. How no one wanted to own and manage this team is beyond me.
@@anthonyemerson2965 it’s representative of how bad this women sport is compared to other sports. Women’s basketball as it exists in the current form is terrible. They need to sex it up for male audiences because women do not care much for women sports.
@darkdante9 probably the recession. I can't believe the league gave up that fast though. Mark Cuban said "I'm out"
Right I don’t see how the league didn’t step in or the nba to save them given they have all this history
I loved watching this team back in the day! 😁😊
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I will say this is the best era of the WNBA
Easily
The 90’s - 2000’s was the best era for ALOT of things 😁
@@DJ.Generation u r not wrong at all
4 chips and no more team... how does that happen?
"Its That time baby. We rollin tonight,... and I mean ROLLIN!!!" - COACH
I remember wishing Cheryl Miller didn't have a bum knee. She would've dominated the WNBA. Still an excellent coach.
Imagine Cynthia Cooper and Cheryl Millet duking it out
Would’ve been legendary
Yeah...... what could been?
Listen. It hurts my heart that she couldn't ball out but my girl was a damn good coach in Phoenix. ❤
It’s wild to think that Reggie Miller wasn’t even the best player in his house 😅
No she wouldn't have, as great as she was, she still was too old then. PRIME Cheryl Miller on the other hand, hell yeah.
This was a great era of basketball. Loved that team.
Thanks for making this video! So many memories ⛹🏽♀️
I need a full docuseries with interviews. Give me a 30 for 30 like the Bulls got. The Cometa were my team. I had the gear, ball, and cards
I remember when the WNBA hosted it's only game in my home state. I was an excited kid. I still have signed cards.
Great video, must admit I forgot about this period of basketball, thanks for keeping this story alive
Thanks to Mr Fertitta rockets owner been having discussions about bringing a wbna team back to Houston
Janeth Arcain was my first basketball idol. She is a HUGE basketball icon in Brazil and had a great 24 years career.
Yes, Janeth was a huge part of that lineup, absolute dominance. I enjoyed those games, miss that team!
As much as I loved Coop, TT, and Swoopes. My favorite player back in the day was Teresa Wetherspoon!
And 'Spoon is now the Head Coach in Chicago, having Angel Reese, Kamilla Cardoso and Chennedy Carter
She was locking people up. Seatbelt 💺
Same for the Detroit Shock. Was real neat to have them. Went to a few games, and saw their championship game at The Palace in 03'. They need to come back too.
Yeah since they relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma after owner Bill Davidson died and now in Dallas...the "Bad Girls" era when they had Swin Cash, Deanna "Tweety" Nolan and Cheryl Ford and under coach Bill Laimbeer (yes, one of the Pistons' Bad Boys) won three titles
RIP Perrot. Great times living in Houston. The comets merch would go crazy
Man, Houston can use a WNBA team right now ! I missed the days of the comets but hear a lot about them these days.
I'm late, I just found this. I got a little story I'd like to tell.
I had the opportunity, just briefly, to be in the same area as Kim Perrot as she was at Houston Intercontinental Airport. I was picking up someone at the arrivals pickup at Terminal C and... there she was. A little across the way. This was when she was already in the throes of her cancer treatment. Not wanting to bother her, but still wanting to encourage her to fight and show appreciation for what she had and still was doing for Houston, I yelled to her "YOU GOT THIS, KIM!" She smiled and waved at me, and that was that. My single moment with Kim, hoping to help in whatever way, even just sending her love.
I wish it had been enough. It obviously wasn't, and she passed away later. :(
But still, what we got to see, what she meant to all of Houston at the time... Yep. She was special. #3 for #10.
Great Video! Can you do a series with great ex Players? Like Penny Taylor?! She was so underrated yet one of the BEST in the WNBA
I wish that more people could watch this documentary and learn about the history of the WNBA. Nothing that is happening in the WNBA now is unprecedented; the WNBA was way more popular in the late 90s early 2000, and some of the great players were superstars who had shoe deals and were all over national TV like NBC. The most viewed and attended games in the WNBA history were in the 90 as well, and these records still stand.
Agreed because these news fans acting like the WNBA just started is annoying
@@Inksplash52 Exactly, this is why I like to call them colonizers.
If you look at the records that are being set this season, a lot of them say most ...... since the 90's. Now, that 20k attendance a few weeks ago is crazy. We're back
I worked for the comets the last few years before they defunct. It was pretty sad around the Toyota center
18:12 Tina Thompson's face says everything you need to know about that play, lol.
See I didn’t even know this. So the W fumbled the bag with essentially the greatest WNBA team of all time smh 🤦🏾♂️. They are definitely about to mess up what they got going we Clark
Correction, the owner who bought the team fumbled them. He didn’t invest in marketing, he moved them to a smaller arena that was out of the way, which hurt attendance and simply left them to rot during the 2008 recession. NBA teams have suffered the same fate in the past. Ownership makes a world of difference in sports. The Aces are a prime example of that.
@@Idontwannaknowu23 It's weird how two of the worst owners in all of men's sports are two of the best owners in women's sports (Mark Davis for the Aces, and Glen Taylor for the Lynx)
@@FirearmofMutiny very true. My only issue with Davis is that he changed the Aces colors and uniform design to match the Raiders. Other than that he has done very well with them.
@@Idontwannaknowu23 once again proving that the Raiders ruin everything
Great video but made me really sad. 4x champions disbanding a decade later is tragic. The part about Kim Perrot was also so sad.
Owners that don't know what they are doing. And poor support staff, never should have jumped to a bigger isolated stadium.
@@jamesbethley4972 the main problem is not owners but the play and looks of the WNBA. They all lose money forever. The attractiveness of the WNBA is not there.
We have to remember that sports are entertainment no different than clown shows or strip shows. Attractiveness comes in the form of good play and sexual appeal. If the play isn’t that good, then you need to improve the sexual appeal.
Women’s sports thrives on sexual appeal. Athleticism is not what brings the attention for women sports.
I've long wondered what happened to the Houston Comets, the 1st dynasty in professional women's 🏀. Now, I know.
It's such a sad story. The Comets were my team! (At least in the 🌎 of professional women's sports.) Once Copper retired and Swoops got hurt, things were never the same for this legendary franchise.
I hope Houston will one day get another pro-women's basketball team. They deserve a sencond chance at it.
Same happened to the Detroit shock. 3 time champs and somehow we lost them to another city. After the comets and spark Detroit was the next top tier team.
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Thank you so much for this!
I remember that shot from Theresa Witherspoon. I worked at the Summit/Compac Centre, from "91-98" & 2003!
Chucky The Lone Wolf 🐺 H-Town (🎱🦈)
I was there too. Shot was like a dagger in the stands, epic!
amazing intro!
The Compaq center used to be rocking. I thought I was gonna grow up and get to go to games more.
Now THIS is the WNBA I remember growing up! ✊🏾🔥🔥❤️🔥. LEGENDARY time in the hood world! Swoopes DEFINITELY could’ve been an NBA point guard!
The Comets were the last professional sports team to win 4 Championships in a row, let that sink in.
With the league expanding now and popularity growing. Someone HAS TO be in talk of getting a team back in Houston. It's only right.
This was the LIKABLE team. This team had no outside ego, no demanding for political anything, no trying to compare things to the men. They went out, played ball, had charisma that most NBA players could never dream of, and beat out everyone. End of story. THIS is when the WNBA was good. Not because of the Comets and the dynasty, but because they were enjoyable to watch.
Rest in Peace Kim Perrot. #3 for #10
Great video. Never knew Houston was this dominant. Mad respect to that whole squad 💯
finally someone does a video on them
That's easy. Cynthia Cooper retired. Swoopes couldn't live up to the hype. End of story.
Exactly 😂 …
Facts I say that every time real comets ☄️ fans know the truth
Facts 👍
Look at how electric the crowd is for the comets
This is the Comets video he been looking for for a decade.
It's funny, I forgot I used to watch the wnba, but watching this made me remember! This team made me interested in the wnba. They were soooo good!
Bring em backkkk
This is when I loved watching the WNBA. CC is the GOAT. And it’s not even close. She was 5 or 6 years past her prime when the WNBA kicked off and was STILL the best in the game.