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About Washington Mystics
The Washington Mystics have been the District's WNBA franchise since 1998, when the league brought basketball to Washington, D.C. through its early wave of expansion. The name fit the family: the Mystics share a magic theme with their NBA counterparts, the Washington Wizards, and both teams play under the Monumental Sports & Entertainment umbrella. Since 2019 the franchise has called CareFirst Arena in the Congress Heights neighborhood home, a 4,200-seat building that ranks among the smallest venues in the WNBA and keeps every ticket close to the action.
The early decades tested the fanbase. An inaugural 3-27 season gave way to support few expansion markets have matched, as the Mystics led the WNBA in home attendance across multiple seasons and peaked at more than 16,000 fans per game in 2002 at Capital One Arena. Winning lagged behind the crowds: playoff runs ended in semifinal losses to the New York Liberty in 2002 and the Minnesota Lynx in 2017, and until 2018 Washington was the only WNBA franchise that had never reached the Finals. That streak broke with a 2018 run to the championship round, where the Seattle Storm swept Washington in three games.
The payoff arrived a year later. With Elena Delle Donne anchoring the roster after her 2017 trade from the Chicago Sky, Washington rolled to a league-best 26-8 record in 2019 and defeated the Connecticut Sun in five games to win the franchise's first WNBA championship. Emma Meesseman earned Finals MVP honors while Delle Donne claimed the second MVP award of her career, a run that stands as the defining chapter in franchise history.
Who are the most notable players in Washington Mystics history?
- Chamique Holdsclaw: The No. 1 overall pick in 1999 and that season's Rookie of the Year, she was an All-Star in each of her first five seasons, 1999 through 2003.
- Elena Delle Donne: A two-time WNBA MVP, in 2015 and 2019, who arrived by trade in 2017 and delivered the franchise's only league MVP season and its first championship.
- Emma Meesseman: The No. 19 pick in 2013 who developed into the 2019 Finals MVP.
- Alana Beard: The No. 2 pick in 2004 and a four-time All-Star who set the tone on the defensive end.
- Crystal Langhorne: A Maryland product who won Most Improved Player in 2009 and All-WNBA honors in 2010.
- Kristi Toliver: A sharpshooter who drained nine three-pointers in a 2017 second-round playoff win over New York.
How many WNBA championships have the Washington Mystics won?
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What awards have Washington Mystics players won?
- WNBA Most Valuable Player: Elena Delle Donne, 2019, the franchise's only league MVP
- WNBA Finals MVP: Emma Meesseman, 2019
- WNBA Rookie of the Year: Chamique Holdsclaw, 1999, and Temeka Johnson, 2005
- WNBA Coach of the Year: Marianne Stanley, 2002, and Mike Thibault, 2013
- Most Improved Player: Coco Miller, 2002, and Crystal Langhorne, 2009
- All-WNBA selections: Elena Delle Donne, a First Team pick in 2018 and 2019, along with Second Team honorees Chamique Holdsclaw, Alana Beard, Crystal Langhorne, Myisha Hines-Allen, and Tina Charles
- All-Defensive First Team: Alana Beard in 2007, Ariel Atkins and Natasha Cloud in 2022, and Brittney Sykes in 2023
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