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2008 Atlanta Dream season

The 2008 Atlanta Dream season was the debut season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association, and their first season under head coach, Marynell Meadors. The team name was unveiled on January 23, 2008, with the expansion draft held on February 6. The Atlanta Dream had seventeen straight losses. It was the longest losing streak to start a season in WNBA history.

Transactions

Expansion draft

Main article: 2008 WNBA expansion draft

The list of players selected in the expansion draft were as follows:

Player	Nationality	Former WNBA Team
Carla Thomas	United States	Chicago Sky
Érika de Souza	Brazil	Connecticut Sun
Katie Feenstra	United States	Detroit Shock
Roneeka Hodges	United States	Houston Comets
Ann Strother	United States	Indiana Fever
LaToya Thomas	United States	Los Angeles Sparks
Kristen Mann	United States	Minnesota Lynx
Ann Wauters	Belgium	New York Liberty
Jennifer Lacy	United States	Phoenix Mercury
Kristin Haynie	United States	Sacramento Monarchs
Chantelle Anderson	United States	San Antonio Silver Stars
Betty Lennox	United States	Seattle Storm
Yelena Leuchanka		Washington Mystics

Additionally, Atlanta immediately orchestrated three trades involving players in the expansion draft.

Trade
To Atlanta Dream
Ivory Latta
To Atlanta Dream
Iziane Castro Marques and the 8th pick in the 2008 WNBA draft
To Atlanta Dream
24th pick in the 2008 Draft

WNBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School/Team/Country
1	8	Tamera Young	United States	James Madison
2	24	Morenike Atunrase	United States	Texas A&M
3	32	Danielle Hood	United States	Hartford

Trades and Roster Changes

Date	Transaction
February 6, 2008	Traded LaToya Thomas and a Second Round Pick in the 2008 WNBA draft to the Detroit Shock in exchange for Ivory Latta
Traded Roneeka Hodges and a First Round Pick in the 2008 WNBA draft to the Seattle Storm in exchange for Iziane Castro Marques and a First Round Pick in the 2008 WNBA draft
Agreed to not select any specific unprotected Indiana Fever players in exchange for the Fever's Second Round Pick in the 2008 WNBA draft
February 25, 2008	Signed Tasha Butts
March 24, 2008	Signed Jennifer Lacy and Brittany Jackson to Training Camp Contracts
March 27, 2008	Signed Stacey Lovelace
April 9, 2008	Traded Ann Wauters, the draft rights to Morenike Atunrase, and a Second Round Pick in the 2009 WNBA draft to the San Antonio Silver Stars in exchange for Camille Little, the draft rights to Chioma Nnamaka and a Second Round Pick in the 2009 WNBA draft
April 11, 2008	Signed Jessica Dickson to a Training Camp Contract
April 14, 2008	Signed Danielle Hood, Chioma Nnamaka, Tamera Young, and Jessica Dickson to Rookie Scale Contracts
April 18, 2008	Signed Dalila Eshe to a Training Camp Contract
April 22, 2008	Signed Jill Ingram to a Training Camp Contract
May 4, 2008	Waived Brittany Jackson and Dalila Este
May 5, 2008	Waived Tasha Butts
May 14, 2008	Waived Jill Ingram, Jessica Dickson, and Danielle Hood
May 15, 2008	Signed Katie Feenstra, Kristin Haynie, and Kristen Mann to Contract Extensions
May 16, 2008	Waived Carla Thomas
Temporarily Suspend Yelena Leuchanka due to Overseas Commitments
Mau 28, 2008	Waived Chantelle Anderson
June 22, 2008	Traded Camille Little to the Seattle Storm in exchange for a Second Round Pick in the 2009 WNBA draft
June 23, 2008	Signed Kasha Terry
July 4, 2008	Traded Kristen Mann to the Indiana Fever in exchange for Alison Bales
July 8, 2008	Waived Stacey Lovelace
August 15, 2008	Signed Nikki Teasley
September 12, 2008	Re-Signed Iziane Castro Marques

Roster

Depth

Pos.	Starter	Bench	C	PF	SF	SG	PG
Alison Bales	Katie Feenstra
Érika de Souza	Jennifer Lacy
Iziane Castro Marques	Tamera Young
Ann Strother
Betty Lennox	Kasha Terry
Chioma Nnamaka
Ivory Latta	Kristin Haynie
Nikki Teasley

Schedule

Preseason

| Game| Date| Opponent| Score| High points| High rebounds| High assists| Location/Attendance| Record}} |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 1 | May 3 | Los Angeles | L 80-86 | Thomas, Young (15) | Young (5) | Ingram (4) | Philips Arena 7,932 | 0-1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 2 | May 11 | @ Phoenix | L 84-97 | Lennox (21) | Lovelace (6) | Haynie, Lennox (4) | US Airways Center 1,845

0-2

Regular season

The Atlanta Dream lost their first game in franchise history, 67-100. Their opponent was the Connecticut Sun; the Sun delivered a 32-8 run that stretched into the second quarter to open a 17-point lead. The lead exploded to 34 points. At the conclusion of the game, the Dream were outrebounded 53-29. For the Dream, Stacey Lovelace had 11 points, five assists and four rebounds.

Total: 4–30 (Home: 1–16; Road: 3–14)}} |- bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 1 | May 17 | @ Connecticut | 67-100 | Lennox (17) | Haynie, Lennox (7) | Lovelace (5) | Mohegan Sun Arena 7,420 | 0-1 |- bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 2 | May 23 | Detroit | 76-88 | Lennox (21) | de Souza (18) | Latta (3) | Philips Arena 11,609 | 0-2 |- bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 3 | May 25 | Los Angeles | 56-74 | Castro Marques (17) | de Souza, Feenstra (6) | Haynie, Latta (4) | Philips Arena 11,186 | 0-3 |- bgcolor="ffbbbb" | 4 | May 27 | @ Washington | 74-80 | Lennox (29) | de Souza, Lennox, Little, Lovelace (3) | Latta (6) | Verizon Center 6,231

0-4
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
5
June 3
Minnesota
81-85
Lennox (28)
Feenstra (9)
Lennox (8)
Philips Arena 5,844
0-5
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
6
June 6
Chicago
72-86
Latta (17)
Little (7)
Latta, Lennox (5)
Philips Arena 7,418
0-6
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
7
June 7
@ Chicago
70-91
Lacy (18)
Lacy (10)
Lennox (4)
UIC Pavilion 3,182
0-7
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
8
June 11
New York
77-81
Lennox (28)
Lennox (7)
Latta (6)
Philips Arena 5,936
0-8
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
9
June 13
Indiana
67-76
Young, Latta (14)
Lacy, Young (5)
Latta (6)
Philips Arena 8,167
0-9
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
10
June 16
@ Houston
79-88
Lennox (29)
Lennox (11)
Young (3)
Reliant Arena 6,139
0-10
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
11
June 18
San Antonio
66-81
Lovelace (18)
Young (13)
Young (7)
Philips Arena 6,225
0-11
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
12
June 20
@ Washington
61-72
Lennox (18)
Lennox (9)
Latta (4)
Verizon Center 7,448
0-12
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
13
June 22
Detroit
76-97
Latta (26)
Young (11)
Latta (10)
Philips Arena 7,865
0-13
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
14
June 27
@ Connecticut
101-109 (OT)
Lennox (44)
Lennox (9)
Lennox (7)
Mohegan Sun Arena 7,612
0-14
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
15
June 29
@ Detroit
92-100
Young (26)
Lennox (8)
Latta (5)
Palace of Auburn Hills 8,798
0-15
-
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
16
July 1
Phoenix
79-97
Lennox (18)
Lovelace, Young (7)
Latta (5)
Philips Arena 9,795
0-16
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
17
July 3
Houston
65-72
Lennox (15)
Feenstra (9)
Haynie, Strother (3)
Philips Arena 7,430
0-17
- bgcolor="bbffbb"
18
July 5
Chicago
91-84
Lacy, Latta (18)
Young (8)
Haynie (11)
Philips Arena 8,468
1-17
- bgcolor="bbffbb"
19
July 9
@ Minnesota
73-67
Lennox (24)
Bales (11)
Haynie (5)
Target Center 5,893
2-17
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
20
July 11
@ San Antonio
74-82
Lennox (22)
Bales (9)
Lennox (4)
AT&T Center 10,943
2-18
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
21
July 13
@ Chicago
66-79
Feenstra (21)
Feenstra (8)
Feenstra, Haynie, Lennox (2)
UIC Pavilion 2,907
2-19
- bgcolor="bbffbb"
22
July 16
@ Indiana
81-77
Castro Marques (24)
Bales (11)
Haynie (7)
Conseco Fieldhouse 9,303
3-19
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
23
July 18
@ Sacramento
73-77
Haynie (12)
Feenstra (8)
Haynie (4)
ARCO Arena 7,236
3-20
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
24
July 19
@ Phoenix
84-110
Latta (18)
Terry (11)
Latta (3)
US Airways Center 7,913
3-21
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
25
July 22
Sacramento
66-79
Terry, Latta (15)
Terry (9)
Haynie (4)
Philips Arena 10,431
3-22
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
26
July 25
Washington
75-81
Castro Marques (23)
Bales (7)
Haynie (3)
Philips Arena 8,279
3-23
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
27
July 27
New York
76-86
Lennox (18)
de Souza (11)
Latta (5)
Philips Arena 8,759
3-24
-
-
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
28
August 29
Connecticut
72-98
Lennox (19)
de Souza, Feenstra (6)
Haynie (6)
Philips Arena 11,442
3-25
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
29
August 30
@ Indiana
72-87
Lennox (27)
Bales (5)
Haynie (5)
Conseco Fieldhouse 9,280
3-26
-
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
30
September 2
Seattle
69-83
Lennox (25)
de Souza (8)
Latta (4)
Philips Arena 7,390
3-27
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
31
September 5
@ New York
71-82
Lennox (28)
Lennox (7)
Castro Marques (4)
Madison Square Garden 7,039
3-28
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
32
September 8
Indiana
77-81
Lennox (19)
Bales (9)
Castro Marques (6)
Philips Arena 7,706
3-29
- bgcolor="bbffbb"
33
September 11
@ Los Angeles
83-72
Castro Marques (23)
Bales (9)
Latta (10)
Staples Center 9,060
4-29
- bgcolor="ffbbbb"
34
September 12
@ Seattle
72-77
Young (20)
Feenstra, Haynie, Terry (5)
Latta (4)
KeyArena 9,686
4-30
-

Standings

Statistics

Regular season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Betty Lennox	34	33	29.7	41.5	35.8	85.5	4.2	2.4	1.3	0.1	17.5
Ivory Latta	34	31	28.2	36.2	34.4	80.2	2.1	3.6	1.3	0.0	11.4
Erika de Souza	12	8	23.1	58.5	0.0	61.5	6.6	0.7	1.4	1.8	9.3
Iziane Castro Marques	29	20	23.1	35.3	30.9	81.4	2.2	1.8	0.9	0.2	9.3
Tamera Young	33	15	22.6	33.3	32.5	69.1	4.2	1.2	0.9	0.3	7.3
Katie Feenstra	33	4	14.0	53.5	0.0	75.0	3.9	0.3	0.9	0.8	6.7
Stacey Lovelace	15	7	17.2	40.4	41.7	69.2	3.6	1.0	1.1	0.7	6.1
Jennifer Lacy	33	22	18.3	38.9	19.0	67.3	2.7	0.8	0.6	0.2	5.7
	Alison Bales	17	9	22.3	40.5	33.3	67.7	6.0	0.6	0.9	1.7	4.8
Camille Little	13	2	17.0	42.0	40.0	59.3	3.1	0.7	0.8	0.5	4.8
Kasha Terry	20	8	13.8	47.4	0.0	60.6	3.2	0.5	0.5	0.6	4.6
Kristen Mann	13	8	17.2	40.9	50.0	100.0	1.5	1.1	0.6	0.3	3.5
Kristin Haynie	33	3	14.7	31.6	31.3	75.0	1.7	2.5	0.9	0.1	2.8
Ann Strother	21	0	7.6	35.3	36.8	66.7	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.1	1.9
Chioma Nnamaka	12	0	7.0	23.1	18.2	66.7	1.0	0.2	0.4	0.0	1.3

References

"Worst start to a WNBA season, team". Guinness World Records.
"Atlanta Dream Expansion Draft".
"Atlanta Dream Build Inaugural Roster With 13 Picks In 2008 Expansion Draft". WNBA.
"San Antonio Acquires Ann Wauters, Morenike Atunrase In Draft Day Trade With Atlanta". WNBA.
"Seattle Storm trades for Atlanta's Camille Little". Our Sports Central.
"Dream Acquire Center Alison Bales In Trade With Indiana Fever". Our Sports Central.
"Atlanta Dream Signs Free Agent Point Guard Nikki Teasley". Tar Heel Times.

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