Phoenix Mercury

The WNBA's Phoenix Mercury are a basketball team in Phoenix, Arizona that began in 1997 as one of the league's original eight teams. In their six years of playing, they have had mixed success.

Table of contents 1 Uniform 2 World Championships 3 History 4 Retired Numbers 5 Hall of Famers 6 Not to be Forgotten 7 Current Stars

Uniform

Their uniform is white, yellow and orange at home with a logo of the planet Mercury in reddish orange, and the word Mercury in yellow; it is orange and yellow on the road.

World Championships

History

With a cast that included hall-of-famer Nancy Lieberman[?], possible future hall-of-famers Michele Timms of Australia, and Jennifer Gillom[?], plus the energetic and hyper-active star Bridget Pettis[?], the Mercury reached the playoffs at various times during the late 1990s, including a trip to the WNBA Finals[?] in 1998, where they lost to the Houston Comets as the league's Eastern Conference[?] champions. (Strange as it might seem, Phoenix was an Eastern Conference team back then.)

After league expansion, the team was relocated to the Western Conference; all of the above-mentioned players (except for Gillom) left, because of retirement or trades, and the Mercury stopped being a playoff contender. In addition, player Lisa Harrison[?] has become a sex symbol, and Playboy Magazine offered her money to pose in their magazine. The Mercury had hoped to get a chance to draft college star Tameeka Catchings[?], who is one of the best basketball players in the country, but Catchings went to the Indiana Fever instead.

Retired Numbers

• 7 Michele Timms

Hall of Famers

• Nancy Lieberman
• Cheryl Miller (coach)

Not to be Forgotten

• Marlies Askamp
• Bridget Pettis

Current Stars

• Lisa Harrison