2008 Chicago Sky season
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The 2008 WNBA season
2008 WNBA season
-Season Highlights:*Candace Parker becomes the second and third player in WNBA history to dunk in a regular season game.*A fight breaks out between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock resulting in four ejections and ten suspensions....

 was the third season for the Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...

. The Sky were not able to have their first winning season.

Expansion Draft

The following player was lost in the Atlanta Dream
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream is a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2008 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Dream Too LLC, which is composed of two Atlanta...

 expansion draft
Expansion draft
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansion draft...

:
  • Carla Thomas


WNBA Draft


Transactions

  • September 14: The Sky signed Dominique Canty to a one-year extension.
  • September 11: The Sky signed Leah Rush and extended the contract of Brooke Wyckoff to include the 2009 season.
  • August 14: The Sky waived Brooke Queenan and re-signed Leah Rush to a seven-day contract.
  • July 22: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to another seven-day contract.
  • July 15: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to another seven-day contract while Leah Rush's seven-day contract has expired.
  • July 8: The Sky signed Leah Rush to a seven-day contract.
  • July 1: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to a seven-day contract.
  • June 5: The Sky signed Tye'sha Fluker.
  • May 20: The Sky waived Kayte Christensen.
  • May 16: The Sky changed the status of Liz Moeggenberg to suspended.
  • May 15: The Sky waived Erin Grant and Stephanie Raymond.
  • May 14: The Sky traded center Bernadette Ngoyisa to the Indiana Fever for guard K.B. Sharp.
  • May 9: The Sky waived Amanda Jackson and Carrie Moore.
  • April 22: The Sky re-signed free agent Chasity Melvin.
  • April 18: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to a training camp contract.
  • April 16: The Sky signed Nina Stone and Amanda Jackson to training camp contracts.
  • April 5: The Sky announced the retirement of Stacey Dales.
  • April 4: The Sky signed Carrie Moore to a training camp contract.
  • February 22: The Sky re-signed free agent Jia Perkins.


Trades


Additions

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|- style="height:40px"
| Tye'sha Fluker
Tye'sha Fluker
-External links:*...

|| June 5, 2008 || Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


|- style="height:40px"
| Jia Perkins
Jia Perkins
Jia Dorene Perkins is an American professional basketball player. She currently plays the guard position for the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA.-WNBA career:...

|| February 22, 2008 || re-signed
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|- style="height:40px"
| Chasity Melvin
Chasity Melvin
Chasity Melvin is an American professional basketball player originally from Roseboro, North Carolina.A 6'3" forward, Melvin has played in the WNBA since 1999, competing for the Cleveland Rockers, the Washington Mystics, and the Chicago Sky. Through twelve seasons in the league, she holds career...

|| April 22, 2008 || re-signed
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


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Subtractions

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| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:100px"|Left
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:210px"|New team
|- style="height:40px"
| Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales, is a former Canadian basketball player and a current host on the NFL Network.-Basketball:...

|| April 5, 2008 || retired
|}

Roster

Regular season

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The 2008 WNBA season
2008 WNBA season
-Season Highlights:*Candace Parker becomes the second and third player in WNBA history to dunk in a regular season game.*A fight breaks out between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock resulting in four ejections and ten suspensions....

 was the third season for the Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...

. The Sky were not able to have their first winning season.

Expansion Draft

The following player was lost in the Atlanta Dream
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream is a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2008 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Dream Too LLC, which is composed of two Atlanta...

 expansion draft
Expansion draft
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansion draft...

:
  • Carla Thomas


WNBA Draft

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! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="10%"| Nationality
! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="10%"| School/Team/Country
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| align="center"|1
| align="center"|2
| Sylvia Fowles
Sylvia Fowles
Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA. She is 6 ft 6 in tall and weighs 200 lbs .-Personal:...


|
| LSU
LSU Lady Tigers basketball
The LSU Lady Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. The team is currently coached by former UCLA head coach Nikki Caldwell, who accepted the job on April 2, 2011. Past coaches include Barbara Swanner, Jinks Coleman,...


|-
| align="center"|2
| align="center"|19
| Quianna Chaney
Quianna Chaney
Quianna Chaney is an American professional basketball player who is currently a Free Agent in the WNBA. She played collegiately for LSU.- College career :...


|
| LSU
LSU Lady Tigers basketball
The LSU Lady Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. The team is currently coached by former UCLA head coach Nikki Caldwell, who accepted the job on April 2, 2011. Past coaches include Barbara Swanner, Jinks Coleman,...


|-
| align="center"|3
| align="center"|33
| Angela Tisdale
|
| Baylor
Baylor Bears
Baylor Bears refers to the sports teams of Baylor University. Baylor's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears. Student athletes participate in the NCAA's Division I, and Baylor is the only private school in the Big 12 Conference...


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Transactions

  • September 14: The Sky signed Dominique Canty to a one-year extension.
  • September 11: The Sky signed Leah Rush and extended the contract of Brooke Wyckoff to include the 2009 season.
  • August 14: The Sky waived Brooke Queenan and re-signed Leah Rush to a seven-day contract.
  • July 22: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to another seven-day contract.
  • July 15: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to another seven-day contract while Leah Rush's seven-day contract has expired.
  • July 8: The Sky signed Leah Rush to a seven-day contract.
  • July 1: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to a seven-day contract.
  • June 5: The Sky signed Tye'sha Fluker.
  • May 20: The Sky waived Kayte Christensen.
  • May 16: The Sky changed the status of Liz Moeggenberg to suspended.
  • May 15: The Sky waived Erin Grant and Stephanie Raymond.
  • May 14: The Sky traded center Bernadette Ngoyisa to the Indiana Fever for guard K.B. Sharp.
  • May 9: The Sky waived Amanda Jackson and Carrie Moore.
  • April 22: The Sky re-signed free agent Chasity Melvin.
  • April 18: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to a training camp contract.
  • April 16: The Sky signed Nina Stone and Amanda Jackson to training camp contracts.
  • April 5: The Sky announced the retirement of Stacey Dales.
  • April 4: The Sky signed Carrie Moore to a training camp contract.
  • February 22: The Sky re-signed free agent Jia Perkins.


Trades

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! style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width=200"|Date
! style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910;" colspan=2|Trade
|-
| rowspan=2|May 14, 2008
| width=400|To Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


| width=400|To Indiana Fever
Indiana Fever
The Indiana Fever is a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2000 season began...


|-
| K.B. Sharp
| Bernadette Ngoyisa
Bernadette Ngoyisa
Bernadette Ngoyisa is a professional women's basketball center with the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. Ngoyisa is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was drafted with the 11th pick in the 2006 WNBA Expansion draft by the Sky from the San Antonio Silver Stars, where she played in 2005...


|}

Additions

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{|class="navbox wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:100px"|Signed
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:210px"|Former team
|- style="height:40px"
| Tye'sha Fluker
Tye'sha Fluker
-External links:*...

|| June 5, 2008 || Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


|- style="height:40px"
| Jia Perkins
Jia Perkins
Jia Dorene Perkins is an American professional basketball player. She currently plays the guard position for the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA.-WNBA career:...

|| February 22, 2008 || re-signed
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|- style="height:40px"
| Chasity Melvin
Chasity Melvin
Chasity Melvin is an American professional basketball player originally from Roseboro, North Carolina.A 6'3" forward, Melvin has played in the WNBA since 1999, competing for the Cleveland Rockers, the Washington Mystics, and the Chicago Sky. Through twelve seasons in the league, she holds career...

|| April 22, 2008 || re-signed
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|}

Subtractions

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|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:100px"|Left
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:210px"|New team
|- style="height:40px"
| Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales, is a former Canadian basketball player and a current host on the NFL Network.-Basketball:...

|| April 5, 2008 || retired
|}

Roster

Regular season

{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910" | 2008 Game Log: Regular Season
|- valign="top"
| |-
| |-
| |-
| |-
|

The 2008 WNBA season
2008 WNBA season
-Season Highlights:*Candace Parker becomes the second and third player in WNBA history to dunk in a regular season game.*A fight breaks out between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Detroit Shock resulting in four ejections and ten suspensions....

 was the third season for the Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...

. The Sky were not able to have their first winning season.

Expansion Draft

The following player was lost in the Atlanta Dream
Atlanta Dream
The Atlanta Dream is a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2008 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Dream Too LLC, which is composed of two Atlanta...

 expansion draft
Expansion draft
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansion draft...

:
  • Carla Thomas


WNBA Draft

{| class="navbox wikitable"
! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="3%"| Round
! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="3%"| Pick
! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="10%"| Player
! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="10%"| Nationality
! style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910;" width="10%"| School/Team/Country
|-
| align="center"|1
| align="center"|2
| Sylvia Fowles
Sylvia Fowles
Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA. She is 6 ft 6 in tall and weighs 200 lbs .-Personal:...


|
| LSU
LSU Lady Tigers basketball
The LSU Lady Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. The team is currently coached by former UCLA head coach Nikki Caldwell, who accepted the job on April 2, 2011. Past coaches include Barbara Swanner, Jinks Coleman,...


|-
| align="center"|2
| align="center"|19
| Quianna Chaney
Quianna Chaney
Quianna Chaney is an American professional basketball player who is currently a Free Agent in the WNBA. She played collegiately for LSU.- College career :...


|
| LSU
LSU Lady Tigers basketball
The LSU Lady Tigers basketball team represents Louisiana State University in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. The team is currently coached by former UCLA head coach Nikki Caldwell, who accepted the job on April 2, 2011. Past coaches include Barbara Swanner, Jinks Coleman,...


|-
| align="center"|3
| align="center"|33
| Angela Tisdale
|
| Baylor
Baylor Bears
Baylor Bears refers to the sports teams of Baylor University. Baylor's men's sports teams are nicknamed the Bears, and some women's teams are nicknamed the Lady Bears. Student athletes participate in the NCAA's Division I, and Baylor is the only private school in the Big 12 Conference...


|-
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Transactions

  • September 14: The Sky signed Dominique Canty to a one-year extension.
  • September 11: The Sky signed Leah Rush and extended the contract of Brooke Wyckoff to include the 2009 season.
  • August 14: The Sky waived Brooke Queenan and re-signed Leah Rush to a seven-day contract.
  • July 22: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to another seven-day contract.
  • July 15: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to another seven-day contract while Leah Rush's seven-day contract has expired.
  • July 8: The Sky signed Leah Rush to a seven-day contract.
  • July 1: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to a seven-day contract.
  • June 5: The Sky signed Tye'sha Fluker.
  • May 20: The Sky waived Kayte Christensen.
  • May 16: The Sky changed the status of Liz Moeggenberg to suspended.
  • May 15: The Sky waived Erin Grant and Stephanie Raymond.
  • May 14: The Sky traded center Bernadette Ngoyisa to the Indiana Fever for guard K.B. Sharp.
  • May 9: The Sky waived Amanda Jackson and Carrie Moore.
  • April 22: The Sky re-signed free agent Chasity Melvin.
  • April 18: The Sky signed Brooke Queenan to a training camp contract.
  • April 16: The Sky signed Nina Stone and Amanda Jackson to training camp contracts.
  • April 5: The Sky announced the retirement of Stacey Dales.
  • April 4: The Sky signed Carrie Moore to a training camp contract.
  • February 22: The Sky re-signed free agent Jia Perkins.


Trades

{| class="navbox wikitable" style="width:80%"
! style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width=200"|Date
! style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910;" colspan=2|Trade
|-
| rowspan=2|May 14, 2008
| width=400|To Chicago Sky
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


| width=400|To Indiana Fever
Indiana Fever
The Indiana Fever is a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2000 season began...


|-
| K.B. Sharp
| Bernadette Ngoyisa
Bernadette Ngoyisa
Bernadette Ngoyisa is a professional women's basketball center with the Indiana Fever of the WNBA. Ngoyisa is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was drafted with the 11th pick in the 2006 WNBA Expansion draft by the Sky from the San Antonio Silver Stars, where she played in 2005...


|}

Additions

{| cellspacing="0"
| valign="top" |
{|class="navbox wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:100px"|Signed
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:210px"|Former team
|- style="height:40px"
| Tye'sha Fluker
Tye'sha Fluker
-External links:*...

|| June 5, 2008 || Los Angeles Sparks
Los Angeles Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...


|- style="height:40px"
| Jia Perkins
Jia Perkins
Jia Dorene Perkins is an American professional basketball player. She currently plays the guard position for the San Antonio Silver Stars in the WNBA.-WNBA career:...

|| February 22, 2008 || re-signed
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|- style="height:40px"
| Chasity Melvin
Chasity Melvin
Chasity Melvin is an American professional basketball player originally from Roseboro, North Carolina.A 6'3" forward, Melvin has played in the WNBA since 1999, competing for the Cleveland Rockers, the Washington Mystics, and the Chicago Sky. Through twelve seasons in the league, she holds career...

|| April 22, 2008 || re-signed
Chicago Sky
The Chicago Sky is a professional basketball team based in Rosemont, Illinois, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the 2006 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Michael J. Alter and Margaret Stender...


|}

Subtractions

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|- align="center" bgcolor="#dddddd"
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:140px"|Player
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:100px"|Left
| style="background:#6495ED;color:#FDE910; width:210px"|New team
|- style="height:40px"
| Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales
Stacey Dales, is a former Canadian basketball player and a current host on the NFL Network.-Basketball:...

|| April 5, 2008 || retired
|}

Roster

Regular season

{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#6495ED; color:#FDE910" | 2008 Game Log: Regular Season
|- valign="top"
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