Houston Comets 2.0? ... We still proudly display the Comets championship banners and retired jerseys at Toyota ... “Women’s basketball in Houston is a part of the culture that needs to be ...

Cynthia Cooper did not get closure when the Houston Comets folded. One minute, she was a star player on Houston’s four-time championship-winning WNBA team. The next minute, her phone was blowing ...

Cooper tells Houston Matters about the growth she sees in women's basketball, what it was like playing the early days of "The W," and about the prospect of bringing the Comets back.

Cooper is also a two-time Olympic medalist, a 2009 Women’s Basketball Hall of Famer, and in 2010 was the first WNBA player to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Comets won the WNBA’s first four championships, was home to three Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductees, and was unceremoniously disbanded due to no fault of the city and fans.

Houston Comets' Cynthia Cooper celebrates after the Comets beat the New York Liberty 59-47 to win the WNBA Finals Sunday, Sept. 5, 1999 in Houston. The Comets have won three straight championships ...

When the WNBA first launched in 1997, Houston might as well have been Mission Control. It was the epicenter of the league, as the Comets assembled the WNBA’s brightest collection of stars.