# 2014 Chicago Sky season

The 2014 WNBA season is the 9th season for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Coming off the franchise's first ever playoff appearance, the Sky looked to continue their success in the 2014 season.
The Sky's offseason included trading Swin Cash to Atlanta, signing free agent forward Jessica Breland, center Sasha Goodlett, but also learning that center Sylvia Fowles would be missing some time due to Arthroscopic surgery of the hip to repair a torn Labrum and Impingement.
Although the Sky finished the season with a 15–19 record, they placed 4th in the Eastern Conference and qualified for the playoffs. They defeated the Atlanta Dream and Indiana Fever in the playoffs and made it to the 2014 WNBA Finals, but lost the series in three games.

## Transactions
### WNBA draft

| Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/team/country |
| 1 | 10 | Markeisha Gatling | United States | North Carolina State |
| 2 | 22 | Gennifer Brandon | United States | California |
| 3 | 34 | Jamierra Faulkner | United States | Southern Mississippi |

### Trades and Roster Changes

| Date | Transaction |
| January 15, 2014 | Cored Swin Cash |
| March 25, 2014 | Signed Allie Quigley and Avery Warley |
| March 27, 2014 | Signed Jessica Breland |
| April 9, 2014 | Signed Sasha Goodlett and Sequoia Holmes to training-camp contracts |
| April 10, 2014 | Waived Carolyn Swords |
| April 17, 2014 | Signed Markeisha Gatling, Gennifer Brandon, and Jamierra Faulkner to rookie-scale contracts |
| April 21, 2014 | Signed Yvonne Turner and Aaryn Ellenberg to training-camp contracts |
| April 25, 2014 | Signed Zhaque Gray and Destiny Williams to training-camp contracts |
| May 2, 2014 | Waived Zhaque Gray |
| May 7, 2014 | Signed and traded Swin Cash and a second round pick in the 2015 WNBA draft to the Atlanta Dream in exchange for Courtney Clements and a second round pick in the 2015 draft |
| May 12, 2014 | Waived Avery Warley |
| May 14, 2014 | Waived Sequoia Holmes and Destiny Williams |
| May 15, 2014 | Temporarily suspend the contracts of Sylvia Fowles and Epiphanny Prince |
| May 22, 2014 | Waived Aaryn Ellenberg |
| May 25, 2014 | Activated Epiphanny Prince from her temporary suspension |
| June 24, 2014 | Activated Sylvia Fowles from her temporary suspension |

## Roster
### Depth

| Pos. | Starter | Bench |
| C | Sylvia Fowles | Sasha Goodlett Markeisha Gatling |
| PF | Elena Delle Donne | Jessica Breland Gennifer Brandon |
| SF | Tamera Young | Courtney Clements |
| SG | Epiphanny Prince | Allie Quigley |
| PG | Courtney Vandersloot | Jamierra Faulkner |

## Schedule
### Preseason

2014 Preseason Schedule Total: 2–1 (Home: 2–1; Road: 1–1)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
1May 9IndianaW 73-66Jamierra Faulkner (11)Jessica Breland (7)Jamierra Faulkner (5)HP Field House1-0
2May 11MinnesotaL 76-67Elena Delle Donne (15)Gennifer Brandon (8)Courtney Vandersloot (3)HP Field House 3,1941-1
3May 13WashingtonW 69-76Elena Delle Donne (17)Jessica Breland (9)Courtney Vandersloot (11)Bob Carpenter Center2-1 :
2014 pre-season schedule :

### Regular Season

2014 Regular Season Schedule Total: 15–19 (Home: 9–8; Road: 6–11) :
May: 5–1 (Home: 4–1; Road: 1–0)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
1
May 16
Indiana
W 74-71
Elena Delle Donne (15)
Sasha Goodlett (10)
Courtney Vandersloot (5)
Allstate Arena 6,721
1–0
2
May 17
@ New York
W 79-65
Elena Delle Donne (23)
Jessica Breland (11)
Courtney Vandersloot (8)
Madison Square Garden 9,131
2–0
3
May 21
Connecticut
W 78-68
Elena Delle Donne (21)
Jessica Breland (15)
Courtney Vandersloot (7)
Allstate Arena 4,951
3–0
4
May 23
Atlanta
W 87-73
Elena Delle Donne (27)
Jessica Breland (7)
Courtney Vandersloot (11)
Allstate Arena 4,136
4–0
5
May 25
Minnesota
L 72-75
Delle Donne Breland (16)
Jessica Breland (15)
Courtney Vandersloot (10)
Allstate Arena 6,058
4–1
6
May 30
Connecticut
W 101-82
Elena Delle Donne (28)
Jessica Breland (10)
Courtney Vandersloot (13)
Allstate Arena 5,693
5–1 :
June: 2–7 (Home: 1–4; Road: 1–3)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
7
June 6
Los Angeles
L 88-102
Elena Delle Donne (33)
Elena Delle Donne (14)
Vandersloot Faulkner (4)
Allstate Arena 6,681
5–2
8
June 7
@ Atlanta
L 59-97
Allie Quigley (11)
Young Brandon (6)
Courtney Vandersloot (7)
Philips Arena 5,458
5–3
9
June 10
Seattle
L 76-80
Epiphanny Prince (18)
Markeisha Gatling (10)
Epiphanny Prince (6)
Allstate Arena 3,958
5–4
10
June 13
@ Washington
L 68-79
Allie Quigley (18)
Sasha Goodlett (8)
Courtney Vandersloot (5)
Verizon Center 7,198
5–5
11
June 18
New York
W 105-100 OT
Epiphanny Prince (30)
Tamera Young (12)
Courtney Vandersloot (8)
Allstate Arena 6,716
6–5
12
June 20
Indiana
L 75-83
Epiphanny Prince (18)
Tamera Young (9)
Vandersloot Faulkner (5)
Allstate Arena 6,488
6–6
13
June 22
Tulsa
L 99-105 OT
Jessica Breland (26)
Jessica Breland (10)
Epiphanny Prince (8)
Allstate Arena 6,711
6–7
14
June 25
@ Connecticut
L 69-79
Sylvia Fowles (17)
Sylvia Fowles (9)
Courtney Vandersloot (4)
Mohegan Sun Arena 5,881
6–8
15
June 27
@ New York
W 73-69
Epiphanny Prince (30)
Tamera Young (5)
Epiphanny Prince (5)
Madison Square Garden 7,911
7–8 :
July: 4–8 (Home: 2–2; Road: 2–6)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
16
July 1
@ Los Angeles
W 90-83
Jamierra Faulkner (27)
Jessica Breland (11)
Prince Breland Quigley (4)
Staples Center 7,201
8–8
17
July 2
@ Phoenix
L 69-87
Allie Quigley (16)
Sylvia Fowles (7)
Prince Faulkner (4)
US Airways Center 7,845
8–9
18
July 5
@ Seattle
L 73-80
Jessica Breland (20)
Sylvia Fowles (11)
Jamierra Faulkner (5)
KeyArena 6,387
8–10
19
July 9
Washington
L 65-72
Sylvia Fowles (19)
Sylvia Fowles (17)
Jamierra Faulkner (6)
Allstate Arena 16,402
8–11
20
July 11
Phoenix
L 66-72
Sylvia Fowles (23)
Sylvia Fowles (11)
Jamierra Faulkner (8)
Allstate Arena 7,076
8–12
21
July 13
@ Atlanta
L 79-81 OT
Allie Quigley (27)
Sylvia Fowles (14)
Jamierra Faulkner (8)
McCamish Pavilion 4,118
8–13
22
July 17
@ Indiana
L 64-82
Allie Quigley (17)
Sylvia Fowles (11)
Jessica Breland (3)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 8,333
8–14
23
July 22
Indiana
W 60-57
Sylvia Fowles (21)
Sylvia Fowles (10)
Jamierra Faulkner (6)
Allstate Arena 5,891
9–14
24
July 25
@ Atlanta
W 79-75
Epiphanny Prince (21)
Sylvia Fowles (12)
Epiphanny Prince (7)
McCamish Pavilion 4,544
10–14
25
July 27
@ Tulsa
L 69-79
Prince Quigley (14)
Fowles Breland (9)
Prince Faulkner Fowles Quigley (3)
BOK Center 5,540
10–15
26
July 29
@ San Antonio
L 74-92
Epiphanny Prince (23)
Fowles Prince (5)
Faulkner Breland (4)
AT&T Center 8,986
10–16
27
July 31
New York
W 87-74
Fowles Quigley (16)
Sylvia Fowles (14)
Faulkner Prince (7)
Allstate Arena 6,043
11–16 :
August: 4–3 (Home: 2–1; Road: 2–2)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
28
August 3
Washington
W 76-65
Elena Delle Donne (21)
Sylvia Fowles (11)
Epiphanny Prince (7)
Allstate Arena 6,107
12–16
29
August 5
@ Connecticut
W 82-66
Epiphanny Prince (20)
Sylvia Fowles (12)
Epiphanny Prince (6)
Mohegan Sun Arena 5,343
13–16
30
August 7
@ Minnesota
L 64-74
Allie Quigley (20)
Jessica Breland (9)
Jamierra Faulkner (6)
Target Center 9,222
13–17
31
August 10
Atlanta
W 80-69
Allie Quigley (17)
Sylvia Fowles (15)
Jamierra Faulkner (6)
Allstate Arena 6,021
14–17
32
August 13
@ Washington
W 72-69
Sylvia Fowles (21)
Sylvia Fowles (16)
Allie Quigley (6)
Verizon Center 16,117
15–17
33
August 16
@ Indiana
L 67-71
Allie Quigley (17)
Fowles Delle Donne (7)
Epiphanny Prince (4)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 10,625
15–18
34
August 17
San Antonio
L 72-84
Courtney Clements (17)
Gennifer Brandon (10)
Courtney Vandersloot (4)
Allstate Arena 7,987
15–19 :
2014 season schedule :

### Playoffs

2014 Playoff Schedule :
Conference Semifinals vs. Atlanta (Won Series 2-1)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
1
August 22
@ Atlanta
W 80-77
Elena Delle Donne (21)
Sylvia Fowles (14)
Vandersloot Prince (7)
Philips Arena 5,985
1–0
2
August 24
Atlanta
L 83-92
Elena Delle Donne (22)
Fowles Delle Donne (6)
Courtney Vandersloot (8)
Allstate Arena 4,546
1–1
3
August 26
@ Atlanta
W 81-80
Elena Delle Donne (34)
Sylvia Fowles (15)
Vandersloot Young (5)
Philips Arena 4,829
2–1 :
Conference Finals vs. Indiana (Won Series 2-1)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
1
August 30
@ Indiana
L 70-77
Sylvia Fowles (20)
Sylvia Fowles (14)
Courtney Vandersloot (4)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 7,557
0–1
2
September 1
Indiana
W 86-84
Sylvia Fowles (27)
Tamera Young (9)
Vandersloot Prince Quigley (5)
Allstate Arena 6,019
1–1
3
September 3
@ Indiana
W 75-62
Allie Quigley (24)
Sylvia Fowles (7)
Courtney Vandersloot (9)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 7,705
2–1 :
WNBA Finals vs. Phoenix (Lost Series 0-3)
GameDateOpponentScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation/AttendanceRecord
1
September 7
@ Phoenix
L 62-83
Sylvia Fowles (19)
Sylvia Fowles (11)
Courtney Vandersloot (5)
US Airways Center 13,263
0–1
2
September 7
@ Phoenix
L 68-97
Elena Delle Donne (22)
Sylvia Fowles (5)
Courtney Vandersloot (4)
US Airways Center 13,348
0–2
3
September 12
Phoenix
L 82-87
Elena Delle Donne (23)
Sylvia Fowles (8)
Courtney Vandersloot (11)
UIC Pavilion 7,365
0–3 :
2014 season schedule :

## Standings

| # | Eastern Conference vte | Eastern Conference vte | Eastern Conference vte | Eastern Conference vte | Eastern Conference vte | Eastern Conference vte |
| # | Team | W | L | PCT | GB | GP |
| 1 | y- Atlanta Dream | 19 | 15 | .559 | - | 34 |
| 2 | x- Indiana Fever | 16 | 18 | .471 | 3.0 | 34 |
| 3 | x-Washington Mystics | 16 | 18 | .471 | 3.0 | 34 |
| 4 | x-Chicago Sky | 15 | 19 | .441 | 4.0 | 34 |
| 5 | e-New York Liberty | 15 | 19 | .441 | 4.0 | 34 |
| 6 | e-Connecticut Sun | 13 | 21 | .382 | 6.0 | 34 |

## Playoffs

| Conference semi-finals: best-of-3 | Conference semi-finals: best-of-3 | Conference semi-finals: best-of-3 | Conference finals: best-of-3 | Conference finals: best-of-3 | Conference finals: best-of-3 | WNBA finals: best-of-5 | WNBA finals: best-of-5 | WNBA finals: best-of-5 |
| E1 | Atlanta | 1 | | | | | | |
| E4 | Chicago | 2 | | | | | | |
| E4 | Chicago | 2 | E4 | Chicago | 2 | | | |
| Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | E4 | Chicago | 2 | | | |
| Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | E2 | Indiana | 1 | | | |
| E2 | Indiana | 2 | E2 | Indiana | 1 | | | |
| E3 | Washington | 0 | | | | | | |
| E3 | Washington | 0 | | | | E4 | Chicago | 0 |
| | | | | | | W1 | Phoenix | 3 |
| W1 | Phoenix | 2 | | | | | | | W1 | Phoenix | 3 |
| W4 | Los Angeles | 0 | | | | | | |
| W4 | Los Angeles | 0 | W1 | Phoenix | 2 | | | |
| Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | W1 | Phoenix | 2 | | | |
| Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | W2 | Minnesota | 1 | | | |
| W2 | Minnesota | 2 | W2 | Minnesota | 1 | | | |
| W3 | San Antonio | 0 | | | | | | |
* Bold – Series winner
* Italics – Team with home-court advantage

## Statistics
### Regular Season

| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Elena Delle Donne | 16 | 9 | 25.5 | 42.9 | 36.4 | 93.3 | 4.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 17.9 |
| Epiphanny Prince | 26 | 24 | 32.3 | 38.3 | 32.7 | 87.6 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 15.0 |
| Sylvia Fowles | 20 | 18 | 29.8 | 54.6 | 0.0 | 78.3 | 10.2 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 13.4 |
| Allie Quigley | 34 | 1 | 24.8 | 44.4 | 38.7 | 87.9 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 11.2 |
| Jessica Breland | 32 | 32 | 26.5 | 46.1 | 0.0 | 75.9 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 9.7 |
| Jamierra Faulkner | 34 | 18 | 20.4 | 36.2 | 26.5 | 83.8 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 7.9 |
| Courtney Vandersloot | 18 | 16 | 25.1 | 40.2 | 37.5 | 83.3 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 6.8 |
| Tamera Young | 34 | 33 | 27.6 | 43.8 | 0.0 | 55.6 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 6.7 |
| Markeisha Gatling | 29 | 1 | 11.0 | 64.8 | 0.0 | 72.7 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
| Sasha Goodlett | 34 | 15 | 12.9 | 45.4 | 0.0 | 72.2 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 3.4 |
| Courtney Clements | 33 | 1 | 11.4 | 36.4 | 17.4 | 100.0 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.7 |
| Gennifer Brandon | 16 | 2 | 7.6 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 46.2 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
| Aaryn Ellenberg | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |

### Playoffs

| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Elena Delle Donne | 9 | 9 | 31.0 | 48.2 | 37.9 | 91.9 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 16.8 |
| Sylvia Fowles | 9 | 9 | 36.2 | 53.8 | 0.0 | 77.3 | 9.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 16.2 |
| Allie Quigley | 9 | 0 | 25.7 | 41.2 | 34.2 | 89.7 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 14.2 |
| Epiphanny Prince | 9 | 9 | 29.1 | 29.6 | 27.3 | 80.0 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 9.2 |
| Tamera Young | 9 | 9 | 29.8 | 43.1 | 0.0 | 52.4 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 7.4 |
| Courtney Vandersloot | 9 | 9 | 29.8 | 38.3 | 13.3 | 85.0 | 2.3 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 7.2 |
| Jessica Breland | 7 | 0 | 13.0 | 38.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.3 |
| Jamierra Faulkner | 9 | 0 | 5.9 | 36.8 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 |
| Markeisha Gatling | 5 | 0 | 4.2 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| Gennifer Brandon | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Sasha Goodlett | 7 | 0 | 4.1 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Courtney Clements | 5 | 0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |

## Awards and honors

| Recipient | Award | Date awarded |
| Elena Delle Donne | Eastern Conference Player of the Week | May 28 |
| Elena Delle Donne | Eastern Conference Player of the Month - May | May |
| Elena Delle Donne | WNBA All-Star Starter | July 8 |
| Jessica Breland | WNBA All-Star Selection | July 15 |
| Allie Quigley | Eastern Conference Player of the Week | August 11 |
| Allie Quigley | WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year | August 24 |
| Sylvia Fowles | All-Defensive Second Team | August 22 |