# 2017 San Antonio Stars season

The 2017 WNBA season was the 21st season for the San Antonio Stars franchise of the WNBA. It was also their 15th and last in San Antonio, as they moved to Las Vegas and became the Aces the following season.
The season started in a difficult fashion, as the team lost all six of its games in May. The closest loss was a six-point loss at home to Phoenix. The team would go on to lose the first eight games in May, extending their losing streak to fourteen straight games. During that streak, there was an overtime loss to Chicago and a four-point loss at Dallas. The Stars won their first game of the season on June 30th, in a rematch with Chicago. The team went on to win two out of its nine games in July, defeating Indiana at home and on the road. Six of their seven losses in the month were by double-digits. The remainder of the season showed a marked improvement for the team, as they won four of their first five games in August. Their only loss game in Chicago. However, they lost four straight games before winning the final game of the season, at Indiana. Their 5–5 finish to the season saw them finish with a final mark of 8–26. They were the only team from the Western Conference to not qualify for the playoffs.

## Transactions
### WNBA draft

| Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/Team/Country |
| 1 | 1 | Kelsey Plum | United States | Washington |
| 1 | 5 | Nia Coffey | United States | Northwestern |
| 3 | 25 | Schaquilla Nunn | United States | Tennessee |

### Transactions

| Date | Details |
| January 31, 2017 | Danielle Robinson was traded to the Phoenix Mercury in exchange for Isabelle Harrison and the 5th pick in the 2017 WNBA draft. |
| February 7, 2017 | Erika de Souza was acquired from the Chicago Sky. |
| February 27, 2017 | Astou Ndour was traded to the Chicago Sky in exchange for Clarissa Dos Santos . |
| May 9, 2017 | Jazmon Gwathmey was traded to the Indiana Fever in exchange for the Fever;s third round pick in the 2018 WNBA draft. |
| June 28, 2017 | Monique Currie was traded to the Phoenix Mercury, in exchange for Shay Murphy, Sophie Brunner, and the Mercury's third round pick in the 2018 draft. |

## Game log
### Preseason

2017 pre-season game log :
April: 1–0 (Home: 1–0; Road: 0–0)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
April 29
Los Angeles
L 59–73
Plum (19)
2 Tied (7)
2 Tied (5)
AT&T Center 2,834
1–0 :
May: 0–1 (Home: 0–0; Road: 0–1)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
2
May 6
Los Angeles
L 59–73
Harrison (22)
Harrison (5)
Currie (3)
Pasadena College 1,000
1–1 :
2017 pre-season schedule :

### Regular season

2017 game log Total: 8-26 (Home: 6–11; Road: 2–15) :
May: 0–6 (Home: 0–2; Road: 0–4)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
1
May 13
@ New York
L 64–73
Currie (23)
Montgomery (11)
Colson (2)
Madison Square Garden 8,207
0–1
2
May 14
@ Washington
L 74–89
Currie (31)
Currie (6)
Montgomery (5)
Capital One Arena 6,126
0–2
3
May 19
Phoenix
L 72–78
Harrison (16)
Montgomery (12)
Currie (4)
AT&T Center 6,400
0–3
4
May 25
Dallas
L 82–94
McBride (18)
Harrison (12)
Currie (4)
AT&T Center 9,621
0–5
5
May 28
@ Minnesota
L 66–80
McBride (18)
Currie (9)
Jefferson (8)
Xcel Energy Center 9,034
0–5
6
May 31
@ Atlanta
L 70–77
Currie (14)
2 Tied (8)
Currie (4)
McCamish Pavilion 3,813
0–6 :
June
: 1–8 (Home: 1–4; Road: 0–4)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
7
June 3
Connecticut
L 77–85
McBride (27)
Montgomery (7)
Plum (7)
AT&T Center 7,128
0–7
8
June 6
Seattle
L 76–85
McBride (21)
Alexander (7)
2 Tied (5)
AT&T Center 4,260
0–8
9
June 10
Chicago
L 81–85 (OT)
Jefferson (18)
Montgomery (7)
2 Tied (4)
AT&T Center 6,191
0–9
10
June 15
@ Los Angeles
L 75–80
Jefferson (24)
Harrison (8)
McBride (5)
Staples Center 9,104
0–10
11
June 18
@ Seattle
L 57–75
McBride (11)
2 Tied (9)
2 Tied (2)
KeyArena 9,686
0–11
12
June 21
@ Dallas
L 78–81
Currie (29)
Harrison (6)
Jefferson (6)
College Park Center 4,617
0–12
13
June 23
Dallas
L 69–81
McBride (19)
2 Tied (6)
Currie (6)
AT&T Center 7,086
0–13
14
June 25
@ Minnesota
L 78–87
Jefferson (19)
Harrison (9)
Jefferson (8)
Xcel Energy Center 9,013
0–14
15
June 30
Chicago
W 89–82
Harrison (19)
2 Tied (10)
Jefferson (8)
AT&T Center 4,942
1–14 :
July
: 2–7 (Home: 1–4; Road: 1–3)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
16
July 5
Connecticut
L 56–89
McBride (12)
2 Tied (6)
Colson (3)
AT&T Center 3,210
1–15
17
July 7
Phoenix
L 77–92
McBride (22)
2 Tied (5)
Plum (6)
AT&T Center 8,232
1–16
18
July 12
@ Indiana
W 79–72
McBride (18)
de Souza (7)
McBride (6)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 12,282
2–16
19
July 16
@ Connecticut
L 75–89
Harrison (17)
Hamby (10)
Jefferson (3)
Mohegan Sun Arena 6,355
2–17
20
July 18
@ Atlanta
L 75–88
Harrison (22)
Harrison (9)
Jefferson (5)
McCamish Pavilion 7,413
2–18
21
July 20
Indiana
W 85–61
Harrison (18)
Harrison (9)
Jefferson (8)
AT&T Center 7,306
3–18
22
July 25
Washington
L 76–85
2 Tied (15)
Montgomery (11)
2 Tied (3)
AT&T Center 9,244
3–19
23
July 28
Los Angeles
L 73–85
McBride (20)
Harrison (6)
Jefferson (6)
AT&T Center 5,777
3–20
24
July 30
@ Phoenix
L 64–81
Murphy (14)
Harrison (13)
McBride (2)
Talking Stick Resort Arena 10,108
3–21 :
August
: 4–4 (Home: 4–1; Road: 0–3)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
25
August 1
New York
W 93–81
McBride (31)
Harrison (8)
Jefferson (5)
AT&T Center 3,430
4–21
26
August 4
Washington
W 76–74
Harrison (20)
Harrison (10)
Plum (12)
AT&T Center 4,955
5–21
27
August 5
Seattle
W 87–80 (OT)
Plum (23)
Harrison (13)
Montgomery (5)
AT&T Center 5,869
6–21
28
August 10
@ Chicago
L 74–94
Hamby (17)
Harrison (9)
Plum (8)
Allstate Arena 4,686
6–22
29
August 12
Atlanta
W 84–68
Harrison (23)
Hamby (8)
Plum (6)
AT&T Center 6,953
7–22
30
August 18
@ Seattle
L 78–79
Hamby (19)
Harrison (12)
Plum (5)
KeyArena 9,686
7–23
31
August 22
@ Los Angeles
L 55–75
Montgomery (12)
Montgomery (7)
Colson (2)
Staples Center 12,433
7–24
32
August 25
Minnesota
L 70–89
2 Tied (15)
Montgomery (10)
Plum (5)
AT&T Center 7,950
7–25 :
September
: 1–1 (Home: 0–0; Road: 1–1)
GameDateTeamScoreHigh pointsHigh reboundsHigh assistsLocation AttendanceRecord
33
September 1
@ New York
L 69–81
Plum (18)
Montgomery (10)
McBride (8)
Madison Square Garden 10,108
7–26
34
September 2
@ Indiana
W 75–71
McBride (28)
McBride (11)
McBride (6)
Bankers Life Fieldhouse 9,420
8–26 :
2017 season schedule :

## Standings

| # | Western Conference vte | W | L | PCT | GB | Home | Road | Conf. |
| 1 | Minnesota Lynx - (1) | 27 | 7 | .794 | – | 15–2 | 12–5 | 13–3 |
| 2 | Los Angeles Sparks - (2) | 26 | 8 | .765 | 1 | 16–1 | 10–7 | 12–4 |
| 3 | Phoenix Mercury - (5) | 18 | 16 | .529 | 9 | 9–8 | 9–8 | 7–9 |
| 4 | Dallas Wings - (7) | 16 | 18 | .471 | 11 | 10–7 | 6–11 | 7–9 |
| 5 | Seattle Storm - (8) | 15 | 19 | .441 | 12 | 10–7 | 5–12 | 8–8 |
| 6 | San Antonio Stars - e | 8 | 26 | .235 | 19 | 6–11 | 2–15 | 1–15 |

## Statistics
### Regular season

Source:
| Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
| Kayla McBride | 30 | 29 | 33.2 | 38.1 | 31.0 | 92.5 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 15.4 |
| Isabelle Harrison | 34 | 33 | 26.6 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 63.5 | 6.4 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 11.4 |
| Moriah Jefferson | 21 | 9 | 24.5 | 52.3 | 45.0 | 74.1 | 1.8 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 0.1 | 9.1 |
| Alex Montgomery | 34 | 31 | 23.5 | 37.0 | 30.7 | 82.6 | 5.7 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 6.0 |
| Monique Currie | 14 | 3 | 23.1 | 43.4 | 35.9 | 82.5 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 11.8 |
| Kelsey Plum | 31 | 23 | 22.9 | 34.6 | 36.5 | 87.0 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 8.5 |
| Dearica Hamby | 34 | 3 | 20.2 | 45.7 | 37.5 | 60.8 | 4.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 7.8 |
| Haley Peters | 2 | 0 | 17.5 | 37.5 | 60.0 | — | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.5 |
| Kayla Alexander | 34 | 10 | 15.4 | 58.2 | — | 90.9 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 6.2 |
| Cierra Burdick | 4 | 0 | 12.5 | 81.8 | 0.0 | — | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 4.5 |
| Erika de Souza | 27 | 21 | 12.5 | 47.9 | — | 100 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.6 |
| Sydney Colson | 28 | 4 | 11.6 | 33.0 | 20.0 | 68.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 2.9 |
| Sequoia Holmes | 27 | 3 | 11.3 | 34.4 | 29.2 | 61.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 3.3 |
| Nia Coffey | 27 | 1 | 7.8 | 27.1 | 0.0 | 72.7 | 1.9 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1.8 |
| Shay Murphy | 17 | 0 | 7.4 | 40.0 | 45.0 | 66.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2.2 |
| Sophie Brunner | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | — | — | — | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |