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1998 WNBA Championship, the Glossary

The 1998 WNBA Championship was the championship series of the 1998 WNBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.^[1]

All-WNBA Team

The All-WNBA Team is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) honor bestowed on the best players in the league following every season.

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Ann Meyers

Ann Meyers Drysdale (born Ann Elizabeth Meyers; March 26, 1955) is an American retired pro basketball player and a sportscaster.

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Bill Kennedy (referee)

William Gene Kennedy (born November 10, 1966) is an American professional basketball referee for the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Charlotte Sting

The Charlotte Sting were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the league's eight original teams.

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Cheryl Miller

Cheryl D. Miller (born January 3, 1964) is an American former basketball player.

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Cleveland Rockers

The Cleveland Rockers were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Cleveland, that played from 1997 until 2003.

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Cynthia Lynne Cooper-Dyke (born April 14, 1963) is an American basketball coach and former player who has won championships in college, in the Olympics, and in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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Footprint Center (formerly America West Arena, US Airways Center, Talking Stick Resort Arena and Phoenix Suns Arena) is a multi-purpose arena in Phoenix, Arizona. It opened under the name America West Arena on June 6, 1992, at a cost of $89 million. It is the home arena of the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the former home of the Indoor Football League's Arizona Rattlers. 1998 WNBA Championship and Footprint Center are Phoenix Mercury.

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Home advantage

In team sports, the term home advantage – also called home ground, home field, home-field advantage, home court, home-court advantage, defender's advantage or home-ice advantage – describes the benefit that the home team is said to gain over the visiting team.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Houston Comets

The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Houston.

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Jennifer Gillom

Jennifer "Grandmama" Gillom (born June 13, 1964) is an American former Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) basketball player who played for the Phoenix Mercury from 1997 to 2002, before finishing her playing career with the Los Angeles Sparks in 2003.

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Kim Perrot

Kim Perrot (January 18, 1967 – August 19, 1999) was an American basketball player.

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Kristi Harrower

Kristi Harrower (born 4 March 1975) is an Australian professional basketball coach and former player.

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Lakewood Church Central Campus

The Lakewood Church Central Campus is the main facility of Lakewood Church, a megachurch in Houston, Texas, five miles southwest of Downtown Houston and next to Greenway Plaza.

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Michele Timms

Michele Margaret Timms (born 28 June 1965) is an Australian basketball coach and former player.

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Michelle Brogan

Michelle Brogan (born 8 February 1973) is an Australian former basketball player who won the bronze medal with the Australia women's national basketball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Mike Breen

Michael Breen (born May 22, 1961) is an American play-by-play sports commentator.

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Monica Lamb-Powell

Monica Lamb-Powell or Monica Lamb (born October 11, 1964) is an American former basketball player.

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NBA on NBC

The NBA on NBC is the branding used for presentations of National Basketball Association (NBA) games produced by NBC Sports.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Phoenix Mercury

The Phoenix Mercury are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Sheryl Swoopes

Sheryl Denise Swoopes (born March 25, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Tina Thompson

Tina Marie Thompson (born February 10, 1975) is an American former WNBA professional basketball player and coach.

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Van Chancellor

Van Winston Chancellor (born September 27, 1943) is an American former college and professional basketball coach.

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Western Conference (WNBA)

The Western Conference is one of two conferences that make up the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), the other being the Eastern Conference.

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WNBA Finals

The WNBA Finals are the championship series of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the conclusion of the league's postseason each fall.

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WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award

The Women's National Basketball Association Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season. 1998 WNBA Championship and WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award are WNBA Finals.

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WNBA Most Valuable Player Award

The Women's National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season in 1997.

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