2000 Portland Fire season

2000 Portland Fire season
CoachLinda Hargrove
ArenaRose Garden
Attendance8,317 per game
Results
Record10–22 (.313)
Place7th (Western)
Playoff finishDid not qualify
Team Leaders
PointsSophia Witherspoon 16.8 ppg
ReboundsSylvia Crawley 6.0 rpg
AssistsStacey Thomas 3.2 apg

The 2000 WNBA season was the 1st season for the Portland Fire.

Transactions

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WNBA expansion draft

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Player Nationality Former WNBA Team
Alisa Burras  United States Cleveland Rockers
Sophia Witherspoon  United States Houston Comets
Tari Phillips  United States Orlando Miracle
Coquese Washington  United States New York Liberty
Molly Goodenbour  United States Sacramento Monarchs
Jamila Wideman  United States Cleveland Rockers

WNBA draft

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See also: 2000 WNBA draft
Round Pick Player Nationality School/Team/Country
1 7 Lynn Pride  United States Kansas
2 23 Stacey Thomas  United States Michigan
3 39 Maxann Reese  United States Michigan State
4 55 Rhonda Smith  United States Long Beach State

Transactions

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Date Transaction
December 15, 1999 Drafted Alisa Burras, Sophia Witherspoon, Tari Phillips, Coquese Washington, Molly Goodenbour and Jamila Wideman in the WNBA expansion draft[1]
January 28, 2000 Traded Coquese Washington to the Houston Comets in exchange for Mila Nikolich[1]
April 25, 2000 Drafted Lynn Pride, Stacey Thomas, Maxann Reese and Rhonda Smith in the 2000 WNBA Draft[1]
May 28, 2000 Traded Tari Phillips to the New York Liberty in exchange for Carolyn Jones-Young[1]
May 30, 2000 Waived Maxann Reese and Nadine Domond[1]

Roster

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2000 Portland Fire roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Height Weight DOB From Yrs
G 4 Australia Bevilaqua, Tully 5' 7" (1.7m) 145 lb (66kg) 1972-07-19 1
C 41 United States Burras, Alisa 6' 3" (1.91m) 218 lb (99kg) 1975-06-23 Louisiana Tech 1
F 0 United States Crawley, Sylvia 6' 5" (1.96m) 187 lb (85kg) 1972-09-27 North Carolina R
G 3 United States Marciniak, Michelle 5' 10" (1.78m) 154 lb (70kg) 1973-10-29 Tennessee R
F 17 United States Nygaard, Vanessa 6' 1" (1.85m) 175 lb (79kg) 1975-03-13 Stanford 1
G/F 34 United States Pride, Lynn 6' 2" (1.88m) 180 lb (82kg) 1978-10-16 Kansas R
F 11 United States Thomas, Stacey 5' 10" (1.78m) 154 lb (70kg) 1978-08-29 Michigan R
C 31 United States Van Gorp, Michele 6' 6" (1.98m) 187 lb (85kg) 1977-05-10 Duke 1
F 22 United States Walker, DeMya 6' 3" (1.91m) 191 lb (87kg) 1977-11-28 Virginia R
G 10 United States Wideman, Jamila 5' 6" (1.68m) 135 lb (61kg) 1975-10-16 Stanford 3
G 7 United States Williams, Tara 5' 11" (1.8m) 170 lb (77kg) 1974-07-23 Auburn 1
G 13 United States Witherspoon, Sophia 5' 10" (1.78m) 145 lb (66kg) 1969-07-06 Florida 3
Head coach
United States Linda Hargrove (Southwestern (KS))
Assistant coaches
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Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (FA) Free agent
  • (IN) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • Injured Injured

Schedule

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Regular season

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2000 game log
Total: 10–22 (Home: 6–10; Road: 4–12)
May: 0–1 (Home: 0–1; Road: 0–0)
Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location
Attendance		 Record
1 May 31 Houston L 89-93 (2OT) Burras
Witherspoon (19) 		Vanessa Nygaard (11) Stacey Thomas (6) Rose Garden 0–1
June: 3–8 (Home: 2–4; Road: 1–4)
Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location
Attendance		 Record
2 June 3 @ Seattle W 65-58 Sylvia Crawley (18) Tully Bevilaqua (8) Tully Bevilaqua (4) KeyArena 1–1
3 June 6 @ Los Angeles L 57-70 Sophia Witherspoon (12) Sylvia Crawley (7) Marciniak
Pride (2) 		Great Western Forum 1–2
4 June 8 Utah L 72-81 Sylvia Crawley (25) Vanessa Nygaard (8) Bevilaqua
Pride (3) 		Rose Garden 1–3
5 June 13 Phoenix L 69-75 Sophia Witherspoon (19) Burras
Thomas
Walker
Witherspoon (4) 		Tully Bevilaqua (6) Rose Garden 1–4
6 June 13 @ Phoenix L 80-81 (OT) Sophia Witherspoon (22) Alisa Burras (9) Stacey Thomas (4) America West Arena 1–5
7 June 17 Los Angeles L 81-94 Sylvia Crawley (17) Crawley
Nygaard (5) 		Nygaard
Witherspoon (4) 		Rose Garden 1–6
8 June 20 Charlotte L 85-87 (OT) Sophia Witherspoon (23) Sylvia Crawley (7) Sophia Witherspoon (7) Rose Garden 1–7
9 June 23 Seattle W 72-61 Sylvia Crawley (20) Sylvia Crawley (11) Stacey Thomas (6) Rose Garden 2–7
10 June 25 @ Sacramento L 76-92 Sophia Witherspoon (17) Alisa Burras (7) Bevilaqua
Pride (4) 		ARCO Arena 2–8
11 June 28 Cleveland W 80-69 Burras
Witherspoon (22) 		Alisa Burras (7) Tully Bevilaqua (8) Rose Garden 3–8
12 June 30 @ Houston L 39-79 Alisa Burras (9) Vanessa Nygaard (5) Bevilaqua
Crawley
Marciniak
Nygaard
Thomas (2) 		Compaq Center 3–9
July: 6–9 (Home: 3–3; Road: 3–6)
Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location
Attendance		 Record
13 July 2 @ Minnesota L 75-81 Sophia Witherspoon (31) Stacey Thomas (8) Pride
Thomas
Witherspoon (4) 		Target Center 3–10
14 July 3 @ Indiana W 68-64 Sophia Witherspoon (20) Sylvia Crawley (9) Michelle Marciniak (3) Conseco Fieldhouse 4–10
15 July 5 @ New York L 45-62 Sophia Witherspoon (9) Sylvia Crawley (9) Bevilaqua
Marciniak (2) 		Madison Square Garden 4–11
16 July 7 Sacramento L 60-63 Sylvia Crawley (16) Sylvia Crawley (8) Stacey Thomas (6) Rose Garden 4–12
17 July 9 Washington W 75-58 Sophia Witherspoon (26) Sylvia Crawley (5) DeMya Walker (5) Rose Garden 5–12
18 July 11 @ Los Angeles W 80-77 Sophia Witherspoon (29) Marciniak
Thomas
Van Gorp (5) 		Thomas
Witherspoon (3) 		Great Western Forum 6–12
19 July 12 @ Utah L 67-76 Sophia Witherspoon (19) Sylvia Crawley (7) Marciniak
Thomas (2) 		Delta Center 6–13
20 July 14 Minnesota W 65-54 Sylvia Crawley (14) Sylvia Crawley (10) Stacey Thomas (8) Rose Garden 7–13
21 July 19 @ Miami L 62-69 DeMya Walker (12) Stacey Thomas (6) Michelle Marciniak (4) American Airlines Arena 7–14
22 July 21 @ Charlotte L 64-73 Sophia Witherspoon (25) Vanessa Nygaard (10) Stacey Thomas (5) Charlotte Coliseum 7–15
23 July 23 @ Minnesota L 63-80 Stacey Thomas (14) Crawley
Thomas (7) 		Stacey Thomas (6) Target Center 7–16
24 July 24 @ Detroit W 61-57 Sophia Witherspoon (18) Sylvia Crawley (9) Stacey Thomas (4) The Palace of Auburn Hills 8–16
25 July 26 Sacramento L 70-73 Sophia Witherspoon (22) Sylvia Crawley (10) Tully Bevilaqua (7) Rose Garden 8–17
26 July 28 Indiana L 58-73 Vanessa Nygaard (17) Vanessa Nygaard (9) Sylvia Crawley (3) Rose Garden 8–18
27 July 30 Orlando W 76-55 Sophia Witherspoon (27) Stacey Thomas (8) Stacey Thomas (9) Rose Garden 9–18
August: 1–4 (Home: 1–2; Road: 0–2)
Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location
Attendance		 Record
28 August 1 Miami W 54-50 Sophia Witherspoon (24) Marciniak
Witherspoon (4) 		Marciniak
Thomas
Witherspoon (2) 		Rose Garden 10–18
29 August 4 Houston L 56-81 Sophia Witherspoon (17) Sophia Witherspoon (5) Bevilaqua
Witherspoon (3) 		Rose Garden 10–19
30 August 6 @ Seattle L 58-66 (OT) Vanessa Nygaard (14) Crawley
Nygaard (7) 		Bevilaqua
Marciniak (3) 		KeyArena 10–20
31 August 7 @ Utah L 73-83 Michele Van Gorp (16) Van Gorp
Walker (6) 		Bevilaqua
Pride
Thomas (3) 		Delta Center 10–21
32 August 9 Phoenix L 60-68 Vanessa Nygaard (14) Sylvia Crawley (7) Tully Bevilaqua (7) Rose Garden 10–22

Season standings

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Western Conference W L PCT Conf. GB
Los Angeles Sparks x 28 4 .875 17–4 –
Houston Comets x 27 5 .844 17–4 1.0
Sacramento Monarchs x 21 11 .656 13–8 7.0
Phoenix Mercury x 20 12 .625 11–10 8.0
Utah Starzz o 18 14 .563 13–8 10.0
Minnesota Lynx o 15 17 .469 5–16 13.0
Portland Fire o 10 22 .313 4–17 18.0
Seattle Storm o 6 26 .188 4–17 22.0

Statistics

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Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage  TO  Turnovers per game
 PF  Fouls per game Team leader League leader

Regular Season

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Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Sophia Witherspoon 32 32 33.2 .384 .368 .871 3.3 2.1 1.2 0.3 16.8
Sylvia Crawley 31 30 30.0 .480 .000 .696 6.0 1.1 0.9 0.8 11.5
Stacey Thomas 32 31 27.0 .356 .250 .595 3.9 3.2 1.7 0.5 5.1
Vanessa Nygaard 32 28 26.3 .435 .333 .759 3.8 0.9 0.5 0.2 7.9
Tully Bevilaqua 32 32 24.9 .357 .283 .778 3.0 2.8 1.3 0.2 4.8
Michelle Marciniak 32 0 16.8 .377 .333 .573 1.8 2.3 1.2 0.2 5.5
Alisa Burras 21 4 15.0 .587 N/A .756 3.5 0.3 0.1 0.3 7.6
Lynn Pride 32 1 14.4 .347 .333 .690 1.9 1.3 0.5 0.3 3.6
DeMya Walker 30 1 10.4 .398 .000 .468 1.6 0.6 0.6 0.2 3.1
Michele Van Gorp 28 1 7.1 .500 N/A .543 1.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 2.5
Jamila Wideman 5 0 7.0 .000 N/A N/A 0.8 0.4 0.4 0.0 0.0
Tara Williams 26 0 6.7 .449 .341 .500 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.1 3.1


‡Waived/Released during the season
†Traded during the season
≠Acquired during the season

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "2000 Portland Fire Transactions". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
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