Revisiting Phoenix's Games Against A Defunct East Team

The Phoenix Mercury have been around since the WNBA's inaugural season, and since then, they have become one of the league's most historic teams. They have won championships, they found some of the WNBA's best players and despite ups and downs, the team is still going strong. The league is expanding, as the Portland Fire and the Toronto Tempo will be in action this year. Then, other teams will be joining down the line. In the past, the WNBA has added teams, and they all went different paths. For example, the Washington Mystics entered the league in 1998, and they are still active. The Minnesota Lynx made their debut a year later, and they are one of the league's best teams. After that, the WNBA added four more teams in 2000. The Indiana Fever, the Miami Sol, the Fire and the Seattle Storm were introduced, and some of those franchises are still here. Miami is one of the teams who is not longer active, but Phoenix had some matchups against the now defunct team. The first time these teams met was early in the s