In all, Tulsa went 59-147 overall from 2010-15 (0-2 in the playoffs) before the team moved and became the Dallas Wings. In all, Chicago went 47-89 and never finished better than .500. The first, second, and fifth games of the series are played at the arena of the team who earned home court advantage by having the better record during the regular season. But from 2011-17? When the Storm are good, man, are they ever. In … At this time, Houston had a stranglehold on the WNBA as tight as any dynastic squad.The Liberty made it to two Finals, but the existence of the Houston Comets is the biggest curse to strike New York. The team tallied 67 points with one season above-.500, two total playoffs wins and zero series victories. The team was a combined 71-19 in the regular season during that span, with the top record in the league each season, and went 10-2 in the playoffs, never dropping a game before the Finals. It’s normal for expansion teams to struggle to start, but the Sky took it to an extreme.The 2010s in the WNBA can also be referred to as, “The Minnesota Invasion.” The Lynx have been far and away the team of the decade, racking up four titles and six finals before the era even officially ends. They help, but it’s the 2016 and 2017 seasons that have them toward the top yet again.
Teams in red have folded and can no longer reach the WNBA Finals. That’s why, even with the crown, Seattle ranks behind two championship-less teams and eighth overall.Despite only existing for less than half of the 2000s, the Chicago Sky were dreadful enough to be the worst team of this era. '76 Finals: Game 5 ABA's Last Hurrah Foundation of Dynasty '70s: Decade of Parity Mikan vs. the Knicks '66-67 76ers '81 Rockets Blast Off '77 Blazermania '86-87 L.A. Lakers Sonics-Bullets: Linked '73 Finals: In Style Russell's Excellence '99 Finals Shootout History on Heat's Side? But there are three seasons to consider, and the Houston Comets would appreciate the deserved love, so the decade gets its own segment.Surprising to no one who was keyed into the WNBA at the time, Houston stands on top by a wide margin. The 2017 and 2018 seasons were rough for the Fever, but they did well enough before to largely cancel it out.Los Angeles has consistently played in the postseason this decade, qualifying for the playoffs eight of nine seasons to be completed in this era. A few years later when the team went to three-straight WNBA Finals from 2006-08, winning twice, it was still Laimbeer and much of the same core who took it there.
There are plenty of good reasons for the Lynx to be so far and away the top team of the decade, like Cheryl Reeve, Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen, Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles and the many other players and staff who have come through Minnesota this decade.
From 1997 to 1998, a single championship game was held to decide the champion.
However, unlike in the overall rankings, these will be determined by raw points and not a score adjusted for the number of seasons a team played. Basketball news, media, & product by players, for players. Indiana experienced a strong five half of the decade, appearing in two WNBA Finals, winning a championship and going to the playoffs every year from 2010-16. At this time, Houston had a stranglehold on the WNBA as tight as any dynastic squad. But they happened, so here they are.Seattle had a similar story to Phoenix’s, but the difference is one fewer championship and one fewer finals.
The Storm did make the playoffs seven times from 2000-09, but only once did they do anything in the postseason: their 2004 title. In the early days of the WNBA, the Liberty were consistently elite, but a dynasty always stood in their way of taking the final step to a title. The WNBA Finals has been played at the conclusion of every WNBA season in history, the first being held in Since 2005, the winner of the WNBA Finals has been determined through a 2–2–1 format. Over the years, many WNBA teams have done their best to be the worst, but none were as successful as the Tulsa Shock, in the 2010s and beyond. Getting to the championship is a great accomplishment in of itself, though, and the Liberty were certainly one of the WNBA’s best in this era.The Utah Stazz sat in the basement, unable to muster a season ending in positive points in the ‘90s. In 1998, after the addition of two teams, the WNBA Finals were turned into a best-of-three games series.
The achievements speak for themselves. You can’t say a team with two championships isn’t one of the best in that era, but you can’t argue it’s at the top with a long stretch of mediocrity in the middle.The Sparks and Fever are the other franchises with championships in 2010s, each with one. The Lakers have participated in 31 finals and lost 15. By looking through smaller lens, we give those teams and the others who dominated in their day, their due.Points are tallied in the same way as for the overall rankings.
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