1999 Washington Mystics season

The 1999 WNBA season was the second for the Washington Mystics. In the 1999 WNBA draft, Chamique Holdsclaw was selected by the Washington Mystics 1st overall. In her first season, she was named the Rookie of the Year and was a starter in the inaugural WNBA All-Star Game. She averaged 16.9 points and 7.9 rebounds per game in her first season.

1999 Washington Mystics season
Coach	Nancy Darsch
Arena	MCI Center
Attendance	15,306 per game
Results
Record	12–20 (.375)
Place	5th (Eastern)
Playoff finish	Did not qualify
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Transactions

WNBA draft

See also: 1999 WNBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School/Team/Country
1	1	Chamique Holdsclaw	United States	Tennessee
2	13	Shalonda Enis	United States	Seattle Reign
3	25	Andrea Nagy	Hungary	Philadelphia Rage
4	37	Jenny Whittle	Australia	Perth Breakers (Australia)

Transactions

Date	Transaction
February 18, 1999	Hired Nancy Darsch as Head Coach[1]
May 4, 1999	Drafted Chamique Holdsclaw, Shalonda Enis, Andrea Nagy and Jenny Whittle in the 1999 WNBA Draft[1]
May 6, 1999	Waived Adrienne Shuler, Keri Chaconas and Margo Graham[1]
July 1, 1999	Waived Jenny Whittle[1]
	Signed Valerie Still[1]
July 11, 1999	Traded Alessandra Santos de Oliveira to the Houston Comets in exchange for Nyree Roberts[1]
December 15, 1999	Traded Monica Maxwell and a 2000 4th Round Pick to the Indiana Fever in exchange for agreement to select Nyree Roberts in the WNBA expansion draft[1]

Roster

1999 Washington Mystics roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name Height Weight DOB From Yrs G 32 Aldridge, Markita 5' 11" (1.8m) 1973-09-15 Charlotte R F/C 3 Enis, Shalonda 6' 1" (1.85m) 185 lb (84kg) 1974-12-03 Alabama R F 23 Holdsclaw, Chamique 6' 2" (1.88m) 172 lb (78kg) 1977-08-09 Tennessee R F 21 Maxwell, Monica 5' 9" (1.75m) 162 lb (73kg) 1976-12-21 Louisiana Tech R G 15 McCray, Nikki 5' 11" (1.8m) 158 lb (72kg) 1971-12-17 Tennessee 1 F 24 Moore, Penny 6' 0" (1.83m) 1969-01-25 Long Beach State 2 G 11 Nagy, Andrea 5' 7" (1.7m) 147 lb (67kg) 1971-11-16 FIU R F/C 44 Owen, Heather 6' 5" (1.96m) 212 lb (96kg) 1976-05-06 Stanford R F 10 Page, Murriel 6' 2" (1.88m) 160 lb (73kg) 1975-09-18 Florida 1 C 0 Roberts, Nyree 6' 3" (1.91m) 209 lb (95kg) 1976-03-10 Old Dominion 1 C 11 Santos de Oliveira, Alessandra 6' 5" (1.96m) 181 lb (82kg) 1973-12-02 1 F 12 Still, Valerie 6' 1" (1.85m) 155 lb (70kg) 1961-05-14 Kentucky R C 32 Whittle, Jenny 6' 5" (1.96m) 1973-11-05 R G 23 Williams, Rita 5' 6" (1.68m) 135 lb (61kg) 1976-01-14 Connecticut 1	Head coach Nancy Darsch (Tennessee) Assistant coaches Melissa McFerrin Jenny Boucek Legend (C) Team captain (DP) Unsigned draft pick (FA) Free agent (S) Suspended Injured

Schedule

Regular season

1999 game log Total: 12–20 (Home: 6–10; Road: 6–10)
June: 2–7 (Home: 0–4; Road: 2–3) Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location Attendance Record 1 June 10 Charlotte L 73–83 Nikki McCray (22) Murriel Page (9) Andrea Nagy (12) MCI Center 0–1 2 June 12 @ Houston L 63–88 Shalonda Enis (13) Chamique Holdsclaw (13) Enis Nagy (3) Compaq Center 0–2 3 June 14 @ New York W 83–61 Nikki McCray (24) Chamique Holdsclaw (9) Andrea Nagy (6) Madison Square Garden 1–2 4 June 18 Detroit L 69–76 Nikki McCray (19) Shalonda Enis (15) Andrea Nagy (7) MCI Center 1–3 5 June 19 @ Orlando L 68–73 Chamique Holdsclaw (23) Murriel Page (11) Andrea Nagy (5) TD Waterhouse Centre 1–4 6 June 22 Phoenix L 76–79 Nikki McCray (24) Enis Holdsclaw (7) Andrea Nagy (8) MCI Center 1–5 7 June 25 Houston L 69–72 Chamique Holdsclaw (24) Murriel Page (7) Andrea Nagy (9) MCI Center 1–6 8 June 26 @ Cleveland L 65–76 Nikki McCray (25) Chamique Holdsclaw (10) McCray Nagy (2) Gund Arena 1–7 9 June 30 @ Charlotte W 68–63 Chamique Holdsclaw (21) Chamique Holdsclaw (14) Chamique Holdsclaw (4) Charlotte Coliseum 2–7
July: 4–10 (Home: 2–5; Road: 2–5) Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location Attendance Record 10 July 2 Sacramento L 74–79 Chamique Holdsclaw (22) Chamique Holdsclaw (9) Chamique Holdsclaw (7) MCI Center 2–8 11 July 6 New York W 71–63 Nikki McCray (16) Murriel Page (8) Nikki McCray (9) MCI Center 3–8 12 July 8 Utah L 65–81 Chamique Holdsclaw (23) Murriel Page (6) Enis Nagy (5) MCI Center 3–9 13 July 10 @ Detroit W 83–78 (2OT) Chamique Holdsclaw (20) Chamique Holdsclaw (16) Andrea Nagy (9) The Palace of Auburn Hills 4–9 14 July 12 Charlotte W 74–71 Nikki McCray (26) Murriel Page (15) Holdsclaw Nagy (5) MCI Center 5–9 15 July 16 Detroit L 68–78 McCray Page (18) Murriel Page (10) Markita Aldridge (5) MCI Center 5–10 16 July 17 @ Charlotte L 56–63 Shalonda Enis (18) Enis Holdsclaw (6) Nikki McCray (9) Charlotte Coliseum 5–11 17 July 19 Orlando L 52–77 Chamique Holdsclaw (9) Holdsclaw Page (9) Holdsclaw Maxwell McCray Nagy Williams (1) MCI Center 5–12 18 July 21 Cleveland L 68–85 Chamique Holdsclaw (23) Shalonda Enis (6) Aldridge Holdsclaw Nagy (2) MCI Center 5–13 19 July 23 @ Minnesota W 60–55 Nikki McCray (19) Enis Holdsclaw (7) Nikki McCray (4) Target Center 6–13 20 July 25 @ Phoenix L 59–72 Nikki McCray (18) Chamique Holdsclaw (7) Holdsclaw Nagy (3) America West Arena 6–14 21 July 26 @ Utah L 61–73 Nikki McCray (19) Chamique Holdsclaw (9) Nikki McCray (5) Delta Center 6–15 22 July 29 @ Sacramento L 54–70 Nikki McCray (16) Shalonda Enis (8) Andrea Nagy (6) ARCO Arena 6–16 23 July 31 @ Los Angeles L 64–81 Nikki McCray (19) Murriel Page (10) Holdsclaw Nagy (3) Great Western Forum 6–17
August: 6–3 (Home: 4–1; Road: 2–2) Game Date Team Score High points High rebounds High assists Location Attendance Record 24 August 2 @ Detroit W 75–70 Chamique Holdsclaw (23) Holdsclaw Page (7) Andrea Nagy (7) The Palace of Auburn Hills 7–17 25 August 5 Orlando W 72–68 Holdsclaw McCray (24) Chamique Holdsclaw (9) Andrea Nagy (7) MCI Center 8–17 26 August 7 @ Cleveland W 63–62 Nikki McCray (25) Chamique Holdsclaw (6) Andrea Nagy (11) Gund Arena 9–17 27 August 8 Cleveland W 80–45 Nikki McCray (20) Murriel Page (7) Holdsclaw McCray Nagy (4) MCI Center 10–17 28 August 11 New York W 59–56 (OT) Nikki McCray (20) Chamique Holdsclaw (14) Enis McCray Nagy Page Williams (2) MCI Center 11–17 29 August 14 Los Angeles W 55–53 Nikki McCray (20) Chamique Holdsclaw (13) Nikki McCray (5) MCI Center 12–17 30 August 15 @ Orlando L 54–81 Nikki McCray (13) Enis Roberts McCray (5) Aldridge McCray (4) TD Waterhouse Centre 12–18 31 August 17 @ New York L 54–66 Nikki McCray (12) Heather Owen (5) Enis Holdsclaw Page (2) Madison Square Garden 12–19 32 August 21 Minnesota L 45–48 Nikki McCray (19) Murriel Page (10) Andrea Nagy (5) MCI Center 12–20
1999 season schedule

Season standings

Eastern Conference	W	L	PCT	Conf.	GB
New York Liberty x	18	14	.563	12–8	–
Detroit Shock x	15	17	.469	12–8	3.0
Charlotte Sting x	15	17	.469	12–8	3.0
Orlando Miracle o	15	17	.469	9–11	3.0
Washington Mystics o	12	20	.375	10–10	6.0
Cleveland Rockers o	7	25	.219	5–15	11.0

Statistics

Legend
GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage	TO	Turnovers per game
PF	Fouls per game		Team leader		League leader

Regular Season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Chamique Holdsclaw	31	30	34.2	.437	.172	.773	7.9	2.4	1.2	0.9	16.9
Nikki McCray	32	32	32.6	.424	.301	.806	2.7	2.4	1.1	0.0	17.5
Andrea Nagy	32	32	29.6	.409	.273	.763	2.4	4.6	1.0	0.1	5.1
Shalonda Enis	29	26	29.1	.364	.275	.684	5.4	1.6	0.8	0.1	7.4
Murriel Page	32	26	28.6	.574	N/A	.683	6.7	0.9	0.8	0.9	8.8
Alessandro Santos de Oliveira	13	6	16.6	.564	N/A	.318	3.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	3.9
Heather Owen	17	0	13.8	.400	N/A	.696	2.2	0.4	0.1	0.2	2.1
Valerie Still	23	6	12.3	.245	.000	.368	1.9	0.3	0.2	0.2	1.3
Markita Aldridge	31	2	12.2	.309	.150	.606	1,2	1.1	0.5	0.2	2.6
Rita Williams	31	0	10.1	.500	.559	.639	1.2	1.0	0.7	0.0	3.4
Nyree Roberts	8	0	7.7	.600	N/A	.571	1.3	0.1	0.6	0.1	2.0
Monica Maxwell	20	0	7.1	.220	.212	.556	1.1	0.5	0.3	0.1	1.7
Jenny Whittle	3	0	6.0	.000	N/A	N/A	1.0	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.0
Penny Moore	4	0	4.8	.333	N/A	N/A	0.73	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.5

^‡Waived/Released during the season
^†Traded during the season
^≠Acquired during the season

• Chamique Holdsclaw ranked sixth in the WNBA in Free Throws, 116
• Nikki McCray, ranked fifth in the WNBA in Free Throws, 129 ^[2]

Awards and honors

• Chamique Holdsclaw, WNBA Rookie of the Year Award
• Chamique Holdsclaw, Forward, All-WNBA Second Team^[3]
• Murriel Page, WNBA Peak Performer