Greatest Houston Comets Players Of All-Time

Who are the Greatest Houston Comets Players? The Houston Comets were a WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) franchise that was based in Houston, Texas. The squad was one of the original eight WNBA teams, formed in 1997, and won the league’s first four titles. They are one of just two WNBA teams to go unbeaten in the WNBA Finals; the other being the Seattle Storm (however, the Storm is still in operation). The Comets were the first dynasty in the WNBA, and they are tied for the most championships with the Minnesota Lynx and Seattle Storm. The league folded and disbanded the franchise in 2008, during the height of the Great Recession, due to a lack of new ownership.

The Comets had a reputation for wooing top female basketball players. Cynthia Cooper (the WNBA’s inaugural MVP); college and national team standout Sheryl Swoopes; Kim Perrot, who died of cancer in 1999; and college talents Michelle Snow and Tina Thompson were among the squad’s members.

List of Greatest Houston Comets Players

Cynthia Cooper-Dyke

Cynthia Lynne Cooper-Dyke is a former basketball player and coach in the United States who has won titles in college, the Olympics, and the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Many people believe her to be one of the best basketball players of all time. Cooper-Dyke was named one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history by fans in 2011. She played for the Houston Comets from 1997 to 2000, winning the Most Valuable Player of the WNBA Finals in each of those four seasons, and then returned to play in 2003. With four Finals MVPs, Cooper-Dyke still retains the record for most Finals MVPs.

She was presented as the head coach of the Texas Southern Lady Tigers basketball team on April 30, 2019, a job she previously held in the 2012–13 season. She’s also coached at USC, UNC Wilmington, Prairie View A&M, and the Phoenix Mercury professionally. In the year 2009, Cooper-Dyke was termed into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Cooper joined the Houston Comets at the age of 34. She led the league in scoring three years in a row, propelling the team to a franchise-record four WNBA championships. She was also termed MVP of the WNBA in 1997 and 1998, as well as the Most Valuable Player in each of the four WNBA Finals. Cooper was named the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 1998 Sportswoman of the Year (team category).  Sheryl Swoopes and Tina Thompson were a major part of the Comets’ triple threat offence during their era.

Sheryl Swoopes

Swoopes, Sheryl Denise, is a former professional basketball player from the United States. She is a three-time WNBA MVP and was termed as one of the Top 15 Players of All Time at the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game. Swoopes is one of eleven women’s basketball players to win an Olympic gold medal, an NCAA championship, a FIFA world cup gold, and a WNBA championship. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted her in 2016. Her induction into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame was announced in 2017.

During the WNBA’s debut season in 1997, Swoopes was drafted by the Houston Comets. She returned to the WNBA for the final third of the first season, only six weeks after giving birth to her son, and led the Comets to the 1997 WNBA Championship. Swoopes amassed nearly 2,000 career points, 500 career rebounds, 300 career assists, and 200 career steals while playing for the Houston Comets. She was the first three-time WNBA MVP in the years 2000, 2002, and 2005, as well as the first three-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year in the years 2000, 2002, and 2003. Swoopes won the WNBA four times between 1997 and 2000.

Tina Thompson

Tina Marie Thompson is an American former WNBA professional basketball player who led the Virginia Cavaliers women’s basketball team from 2018 to 2022 as their head coach. In the year 2018, Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Thompson was the first collegiate draught pick in WNBA history, chosen first by the Houston Comets. In 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000, she helped the Comets win four straight WNBA championships. She has two Olympic gold medals and has appeared in nine WNBA All-Star Games. She was the WNBA’s all-time leading scorer until 2017, and she currently stands second in the league’s history.

The Houston Comets selected Thompson No. 1 overall in the first round of the inaugural 1997 WNBA draught. From 1997 through 2000, she was part of a dynasty that included Sheryl Swoopes and Cynthia Cooper and won four straight WNBA championships. Thompson was termed All-Star MVP of the WNBA All-Star Game in 2000 while playing with the Comets.

Sancho Lyttle

Sancho Lyttle is a former professional basketball player for the WNBA who is Vincentian-Spanish. She has won six domestic leagues and four Euroleague titles with four teams in three nations, combining the WNBA and the European season. She was born on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and received Spanish citizenship in June 2010. Between 2010 and 2017, she won four medals with the Spanish basketball team.

Lyttle was termed first in the dispersal draught by the Atlanta Dream after the Houston Comets disbanded in 2008.

She is presently a member of the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, where she plays power forward. Lyttle has 1,505 points, 1,041 rebounds, 200 assists, 242 steals, and 96 blocks throughout the course of her six-year career. In the 2005 WNBA Draft, she was termed fifth overall by Houston.

Roneeka Hodges

Roneeka Hodges is a former player and current coach for the New York Liberty of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the twin sister of former WNBA star Doneeka Hodges and was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hodges, a 5’11” guard, spent three seasons with the Houston Comets, who selected her in the second round, 15th overall, of the 2005 WNBA Draft. The Lynx selected Hodges as the fourth pick in the dispersal draught for former Comets players after the Comets collapsed in the fall of 2008.

Hodges was selected in the expansion draught by the Atlanta Dream on February 6, 2008. She was then termed with the fourth pick to the Seattle Storm in exchange for the ninth pick and Iziane Castro Marques. The Houston Comets have signed her to a new deal.

Hodges scored 382 points, 112 rebounds, 66 assists, 32 steals, and 4 blocks in three seasons with the Comets. She had a career-high of 247 points in 2006, with a career-high of 21 against the Washington Mystics.

Kim Perrot

Kim Perrot was an NBA basketball player from the United States. She was a member of the Houston Comets of the WNBA.

Perrot was a four-year guard at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). She scored 58 points in a game against the University of Southeastern Louisiana, the third-most in NCAA history.

Perrot became the regular point guard for the Houston Comets after six seasons in Europe, helping them win WNBA championships in 1997 and 1998. She was termed for her aggressive play and was a fan favourite at 5’5″. Perrot was a member of the Comets’ organisation and wore the number 10 jersey, which was later retired. During her two seasons with the Comets, she averaged 7.2 points, 3.3 steals, and 2.9 rebounds per game. She scored ten points against the Los Angeles Sparks in her final regular-season game with the Comets, exactly one year before her death. She scored 13 points in Game 3 of the 1998 WNBA Finals, helping Houston win its second straight championship.

Shannon Johnson 

Shannon Regina “Pee Wee” Johnson was born in Hartsville, South Carolina, and is an American basketball player. She last played in the WNBA for the Seattle Storm. In September 2015, she was termed head coach at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina.

Johnson went on to play with the Columbus Quest, with whom she won the American Basketball League championships in the years 1997 and 1998.

Johnson signed with the Houston Comets on March 7, 2008. She was not selected in the dispersal draught after the Comets disbanded, therefore she became a free agent.

In 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003, Johnson was a WNBA All-Star. In Spain, she played for Ros Casares Valencia from 2001 to 2002, Perfumeras Avenida from 2002 to 2003, and Dynamo Moscow from 2003 to 2004. She was also an important member of the club, as she assisted in the team’s promotion to Division One.

Rebecca Lobo

Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin is an American television basketball analyst and former WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) player who played from 1997 to 2003. Lobo, who is 6’4″, spent much of her career as a centre. She played collegiate basketball for the University of Connecticut, where she was a member of the 1995 national championship team, which went 35–0 on the season. Lobo was termed into the Hall of Fame for Women’s Basketball in 2010. In April 2017, she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tracy McGrady and Muffet McGraw, as a member of the 2017 class.

She was termed to the Houston Comets in 2002 in return for Houston’s second-round (26th overall) selection in the WNBA Draft. She was traded to the Connecticut Sun the following season, where she remained until her retirement in 2003. Lobo also spent two seasons with the Springfield Spirit of the National Women’s Basketball League in the year 2002–03.

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