A Houston Comets come the Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas. Formed inside 1997, a team is one of the original WNBA teams & when winning quadruplet championships in the 1st 4 years of the league's being, a Comets come likewise a foremost dynasty of the WNBA.

A Comets come besides known for their roll of women's basketball stars. A team experienced a WNBA's number 1 WNBA MVP in Cynthia Cooper, college and national team standout Sheryl Swoopes and college star Tina Thompson.

A Comets come a sister team of the Houston Rockets.

Uniforms: Red, white & blue page by owning the C simulating the comet, title comets within white & the WNBA basketball. Red & blue on the road

Franchise history
A Comets were one of a original teams in the WNBA. It capped off a good initiatory year around 1997 by using a convert the New York Liberty in the WNBA championship game to win the WNBA's foremost championship. Once a league expanded a next year, a Comets were moved from either a Eastern Conference to the American Conference. Inside 1998, they repeated the championship, although by so a championship gage experienced been extended into a deuce-ace game championship series. It beat a Phoenix Mercury in the finals that year.

Within 1999, led by what was already known as a Large 3, (Sheryl Swoopes, Cynthithe Cooper & Tina Thompson), a Comets survived a highlight film endure 2nd, court to court game winning shot per Liberty's Teresa Weatherspoon within game ii of a finals to beat a Liberty in troika games & win their third straight title, this of these fallowing the dying of mate Kim Perrot, who died of cancer.

Around 2000, the Comets went all the way to the finals once more, & beat the Liberty around both games to wwithin their 4th title in the row, becoming called a sports dynasty. However when losing Cooper to retirement around 2001, they were breaa to email just the quarterfinals, & around 2002, when Swoopes was hurt virtually all of a season using the broken articulatio talocruralis, it misused at the Quarterfinals once more. It missed a playoffs first witharound franchise history in 2004, but earned the playoff berth inside 2005.

Players of note
Hall of Famers

Retired numbers
10 Kim Perrot

Not to be forgotten
Kim Perrot Cynthia Cooper

Current roster
Roll when of August 7, 2005:

Backcourt #9 Janeth Arcain; (Brazil) #25 Dominique Canty; (Alabama) #32 Jenni Dant; (DePaul) #5 Roneeka Hodges; (Florida State) #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) #22 Sheryl Swoopes; (Texas Tech) #7 Tina Thompson; (USC)

Coaches and others
Head Coaches: Van Chancellor (1997 - present)