On August 26, the WNBA game in Houston was the final game of the 2000 season and apparently the final game for Playoff MVP Cynthia Cooper . The Comets won their fourth straight WNBA title riding on the shoulders of one of the league's greatest players, the aforementioned Cynthia 'Big Play' Cooper. With the Comets down three points and 20 seconds remaining, Coop took a three from the NBA 3-point line.
Big time play in a big game.
Coop sunk the three to force overtime and the Comets disposed of the Liberty in the bonus to cement the four-peat. The Comets didn't win FOUR titles on the strength of Coop alone. The only champion of the WNBA was created when players were initially divided up among the eight original teams. Eight top players were split up, one to each team, and Houston got current league MVP Sheryl Swoopes . Then the WNBA signed and assigned Cynthia Cooper to the Comets, who had already played for 11 years in Europe.