# 2000 Charlotte Sting season

The 2000 WNBA season was the fourth season for the Charlotte Sting. The team missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. They posted the worst record in the East and in franchise history, where that would remain until the 2005 season.

## Transactions
### Miami Sol expansion draft

The following players were selected in the Miami Sol expansion draft from the Charlotte Sting:
| Player | Nationality | School/Team/Country |
| Sharon Manning | United States | NC State |
| Stephanie White-McCarty | United States | Purdue |

### WNBA draft

| Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/Team/Country |
| 1 | 11 | Summer Erb | United States | NC State |
| 2 | 27 | Tiffany Travis | United States | Florida |
| 3 | 34 | Jill Morton | United States | Louisville |
| 3 | 43 | Peppi Browne | United States | Duke |
| 4 | 59 | Shaka Massey | United States | Louisiana Tech |

### Transactions

| Date | Transaction |
| October 28, 1999 | Hired T.R. Dunn as Head Coach |
| December 15, 1999 | Lost Sharon Manning and Stephanie White-McCarty to the Miami Sol in the WNBA expansion draft |
| January 19, 2000 | Traded Vicky Bullett to the Washington Mystics in exchange for Shalonda Enis and a 2000 3rd Round Pick |
| April 25, 2000 | Drafted Summer Erb, Tiffany Travis, Jill Morton, Peppi Browne and Shaka Massey in the 2000 WNBA Draft |
| May 20, 2000 | Signed Trisha Stafford-Odom |
| October 11, 2000 | Traded Rhonda Mapp and E.C. Hill to the Los Angeles Sparks in exchange for Allison Feaster and Clarisse Machanguana |
| November 7, 2000 | Traded Tracy Reid to the Miami Sol in exchange for Shantia Owens |

## Schedule
### Regular season

2000 game log Total: 8–24 (Home: 4–11; Road: 4–13) :
June: 2–12 (Home: 0–7; Road: 2–5)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
June 1
@ Orlando
L 79-82
Andrea Stinson (18)
Angie Braziel (6)
Andrea Stinson (7)
TD Waterhouse Centre
0–1
2
June 3
Miami
L 63-74
Andrea Stinson (22)
Tiffany Travis (5)
Dawn Staley (7)
Charlotte Coliseum
0–2
3
June 5
Cleveland
L 53-69
Rhonda Mapp (17)
Rhonda Mapp (7)
Dawn Staley (7)
Charlotte Coliseum
0–3
4
June 9
Seattle
L 62-67
Rhonda Mapp (19)
Andrea Stinson (6)
Dawn Staley (8)
Charlotte Coliseum
0–4
5
June 10
Orlando
L 71-74
Andrea Stinson (18)
Smith Stinson (6)
Dawn Staley (7)
Charlotte Coliseum
0–5
6
June 12
@ Detroit
W 78-67
Mapp Stinson (21)
Rhonda Mapp (15)
Rhonda Mapp (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
1–5
7
June 15
@ Utah
L 68-96
Andrea Stinson (18)
Andrea Stinson (7)
Dawn Staley (6)
Delta Center
1–6
8
June 17
@ Sacramento
L 63-74
Dawn Staley (18)
Rhonda Mapp (10)
Smith Staley (4)
Charlotte Coliseum
1–7
9
June 18
@ Los Angeles
L 62-70
Summer Erb (21)
Charlotte Smith (10)
Dawn Staley (6)
Great Western Forum
1–8
10
June 20
@ Portland
W 87-85 (OT)
Andrea Stinson (25)
Enis Travis (6)
Dawn Staley (8)
Rose Garden
2–8
11
June 22
Phoenix
L 57-90
Andrea Stinson (20)
Erb Reid (6)
Dawn Staley (6)
Charlotte Coliseum
2–9
12
June 24
@ Orlando
L 68-69
Reid Stinson Travis (13)
Rhonda Mapp (15)
Dawn Staley (8)
Charlotte Coliseum
2–10
13
June 25
Detroit
L 81-84
Shalonda Enis (18)
Summer Erb (8)
Dawn Staley (9)
Charlotte Coliseum
2–11
14
June 28
Houston
L 66-76
Mapp Stinson (14)
Enis Travis (5)
Dawn Staley (9)
Charlotte Coliseum
2–12 :
July: 5–9 (Home: 3–3; Road: 2–6)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
15
July 1
Washington
L 74-78
Dawn Staley (19)
Andrea Stinson (7)
Dawn Staley (5)
Charlotte Coliseum
2–13
16
July 5
Miami
W 76-70
Rhonda Mapp (20)
Rhonda Mapp (9)
Dawn Staley (6)
Charlotte Coliseum
3–13
17
July 7
@ Houston
L 71-86
Andrea Stinson (19)
Rhonda Mapp (8)
Dawn Staley (7)
Compaq Center
3–14
18
July 8
Cleveland
L 59-80
Andrea Stinson (18)
Rhonda Mapp (8)
Dawn Staley (5)
Charlotte Coliseum
3–15
19
July 10
@ Cleveland
L 65-72
Rhonda Mapp (17)
Rhonda Mapp (12)
Dawn Staley (8)
Gund Arena
3–16
20
July 12
@ New York
L 70-84
Andrea Stinson (21)
Mapp Reid (6)
Charlotte Smith (4)
Madison Square Garden
3–17
21
July 15
@ Washington
W 76-73
Andrea Stinson (24)
Mapp Stinson (6)
Dawn Staley (7)
MCI Center
4–17
22
July 21
Portland
W 73-64
Dawn Staley (18)
Bauer-Bilodeau Reid Staley (5)
Andrea Stinson (8)
Charlotte Coliseum
5–17
23
July 22
@ Indiana
L 59-80
Rhonda Mapp (18)
Tracy Reid (7)
Bauer-Bilodeau Mapp Stinson Staley (2)
Conseco Fieldhouse
5–18
24
July 24
Indiana
W 82-78 (OT)
Andrea Stinson (24)
Mapp Travis (7)
Dawn Staley (8)
Charlotte Coliseum
6–18
25
July 26
@ Washington
W 87-80
Andrea Stinson (33)
Charlotte Smith (9)
Dawn Staley (13)
MCI Center
7–18
26
July 28
New York
L 56-66
Charlotte Smith (17)
Tracy Reid (5)
Dawn Staley (6)
Charlotte Coliseum
7–19
27
July 29
@ Detroit
L 72-75
Rhonda Mapp (25)
Rhonda Mapp (12)
Andrea Stinson (5)
The Palace of Auburn Hills
7–20
28
July 31
@ New York
L 56-81
Andrea Stinson (18)
Rhonda Mapp (9)
Dawn Staley (4)
Madison Square Garden
7–21 :
August: 1–3 (Home: 1–1; Road: 0–2)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
29
August 4
@ Miami
L 50-60
Andrea Stinson (14)
Rhonda Mapp (10)
Mapp Staley Stinson (4)
American Airlines Arena
7–22
30
August 5
Utah
W 84-82
Andrea Stinson (23)
Rhonda Mapp (5)
Dawn Staley (10)
Charlotte Coliseum
8–22
31
August 8
Minnesota
L 67-76
Andrea Stinson (15)
Angie Braziel (7)
Smith Staley (5)
Charlotte Coliseum
8–23
32
August 9
@ Indiana
L 51-67
Andrea Stinson (17)
Reid Smith (9)
Charlotte Smith (3)
Conseco Fieldhouse
8–24 :

### Season standings

| Eastern Conference | W | L | PCT | Conf. | GB |
| New York Liberty $^x$ | 20 | 12 | .625 | 14–7 | – |
| Cleveland Rockers $^x$ | 17 | 15 | .531 | 13–8 | 3.0 |
| Orlando Miracle $^x$ | 16 | 16 | .500 | 13–8 | 4.0 |
| Washington Mystics $^x$ | 14 | 18 | .438 | 13–8 | 6.0 |
| Detroit Shock $^o$ | 14 | 18 | .438 | 10–11 | 6.0 |
| Miami Sol $^o$ | 13 | 19 | .406 | 9–12 | 7.0 |
| Indiana Fever $^o$ | 9 | 23 | .281 | 7–14 | 11.0 |
| Charlotte Sting $^o$ | 8 | 24 | .250 | 5–16 | 12.0 |

## Statistics
### Regular Season

| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Andrea Stinson | 32 | 32 | 35.1 | .462 | .358 | .739 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 17.7 |
| Dawn Staley | 32 | 32 | 34.3 | .372 | .330 | .878 | 2.4 | 5.9 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 8.8 |
| Rhonda Mapp | 30 | 30 | 28.5 | .460 | .364 | .830 | 6.8 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 11.9 |
| Shalonda Enis | 12 | 9 | 26.9 | .394 | .344 | .767 | 3.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 11.6 |
| Charlotte Smith | 30 | 7 | 22.0 | .352 | .316 | .800 | 3.5 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 5.2 |
| Tracy Reid | 29 | 17 | 21.4 | .478 | .000 | .542 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 7.3 |
| Tiffany Travis | 32 | 12 | 17.9 | .443 | .480 | .750 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 5.4 |
| Cass Bauer-Bilodeau | 29 | 18 | 13.7 | .403 | .000 | .857 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 2.6 |
| Niesa Johnson | 6 | 0 | 13.0 | .529 | .400 | 1.000 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 4.3 |
| Summer Erb | 29 | 0 | 9.5 | .438 | .000 | .651 | 2.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 3.2 |
| Angie Braziel | 22 | 3 | 9.2 | .388 | N/A | .684 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 2.3 |
| E.C. Hill | 26 | 0 | 8.2 | .286 | .227 | .400 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 1.5 |
| Larecha Jones | 9 | 0 | 6.0 | .421 | .333 | .500 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 2.1 |
$^‡$Waived/Released during the season $^†$Traded during the season $^≠$Acquired during the season