# 2000 Portland Fire season

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

## Transactions
### WNBA expansion draft

| 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

| 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

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

## Schedule
### Regular season

2000 game log Total: 10–22 (Home: 6–10; Road: 4–12) :
May: 0–1 (Home: 0–1; Road: 0–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
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)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
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)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
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)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
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

| 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
### Regular Season

| 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