2014 Chicago Sky season | |
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Coach | Pokey Chatman |
Arena | Allstate Arena |
Attendance | 6,685 per game |
Results | |
Record | 15–19 (.441) |
Place | 4th (Eastern) |
Playoff finish | Lost in WNBA Finals |
Team Leaders | |
Points | Elena Delle Donne – 17.9 |
Rebounds | Sylvia Fowles – 10.2 |
Assists | Courtney Vandersloot – 5.6 |
Media | |
Television | CN100 ESPN2, NBATV |
The 2014 WNBA season is the 9th season for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Coming off the franchise's first ever playoff appearance, the Sky looked to continue their success in the 2014 season.
The Sky's offseason included trading Swin Cash to Atlanta, signing free agent forward Jessica Breland, center Sasha Goodlett, but also learning that center Sylvia Fowles would be missing some time due to Arthroscopic surgery of the hip to repair a torn Labrum and Impingement. [1]
Although the Sky finished the season with a 15–19 record, they placed 4th in the Eastern Conference and qualified for the playoffs. They defeated the Atlanta Dream and Indiana Fever in the playoffs and made it to the 2014 WNBA Finals, but lost the series in three games.
Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | School/team/country |
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1 | 10 | Markeisha Gatling | United States | North Carolina State |
2 | 22 | Gennifer Brandon | United States | California |
3 | 34 | Jamierra Faulkner | United States | Southern Mississippi |
Date | Transaction | |
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January 15, 2014 | Cored Swin Cash | |
March 25, 2014 | Signed Allie Quigley and Avery Warley | |
March 27, 2014 | Signed Jessica Breland [2] | |
April 9, 2014 | Signed Sasha Goodlett and Sequoia Holmes to training-camp contracts [3] | |
April 10, 2014 | Waived Carolyn Swords [4] | |
April 17, 2014 | Signed Markeisha Gatling, Gennifer Brandon, and Jamierra Faulkner to rookie-scale contracts | |
April 21, 2014 | Signed Yvonne Turner and Aaryn Ellenberg to training-camp contracts [5] | |
April 25, 2014 | Signed Zhaque Gray and Destiny Williams to training-camp contracts [6] | |
May 2, 2014 | Waived Zhaque Gray [7] | |
May 7, 2014 | Signed and traded Swin Cash and a second round pick in the 2015 WNBA draft to the Atlanta Dream in exchange for Courtney Clements and a second round pick in the 2015 draft [8] | |
May 12, 2014 | Waived Avery Warley [9] | |
May 14, 2014 | Waived Sequoia Holmes and Destiny Williams [10] | |
May 15, 2014 | Temporarily suspend the contracts of Sylvia Fowles and Epiphanny Prince | |
May 22, 2014 | Waived Aaryn Ellenberg [11] | |
May 25, 2014 | Activated Epiphanny Prince from her temporary suspension | |
June 24, 2014 | Activated Sylvia Fowles from her temporary suspension [12] |
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2014 Preseason Schedule Total: 2–1 (Home: 2–1; Road: 1–1)
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2014 season schedule |
# | Eastern Conference | |||||
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Team | W | L | PCT | GB | GP | |
1 | y- Atlanta Dream | 19 | 15 | .559 | - | 34 |
2 | x- Indiana Fever | 16 | 18 | .471 | 3.0 | 34 |
3 | x-Washington Mystics | 16 | 18 | .471 | 3.0 | 34 |
4 | x-Chicago Sky | 15 | 19 | .441 | 4.0 | 34 |
5 | e-New York Liberty | 15 | 19 | .441 | 4.0 | 34 |
6 | e-Connecticut Sun | 13 | 21 | .382 | 6.0 | 34 |
Conference semi-finals: best-of-3 | Conference finals: best-of-3 | WNBA finals: best-of-5 | ||||||||||||
E1 | Atlanta | 1 | ||||||||||||
E4 | Chicago | 2 | ||||||||||||
E4 | Chicago | 2 | ||||||||||||
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E2 | Indiana | 1 | ||||||||||||
E2 | Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||||
E3 | Washington | 0 | ||||||||||||
E4 | Chicago | 0 | ||||||||||||
W1 | Phoenix | 3 | ||||||||||||
W1 | Phoenix | 2 | ||||||||||||
W4 | Los Angeles | 0 | ||||||||||||
W1 | Phoenix | 2 | ||||||||||||
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W2 | Minnesota | 1 | ||||||||||||
W2 | Minnesota | 2 | ||||||||||||
W3 | San Antonio | 0 |
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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 |
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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Elena Delle Donne | 16 | 9 | 25.5 | 42.9 | 36.4 | 93.3 | 4.0 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 17.9 |
Epiphanny Prince | 26 | 24 | 32.3 | 38.3 | 32.7 | 87.6 | 3.0 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 0.4 | 15.0 |
Sylvia Fowles | 20 | 18 | 29.8 | 54.6 | 0.0 | 78.3 | 10.2 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 13.4 |
Allie Quigley | 34 | 1 | 24.8 | 44.4 | 38.7 | 87.9 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 11.2 |
Jessica Breland | 32 | 32 | 26.5 | 46.1 | 0.0 | 75.9 | 6.8 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 9.7 |
Jamierra Faulkner | 34 | 18 | 20.4 | 36.2 | 26.5 | 83.8 | 2.0 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 7.9 |
Courtney Vandersloot | 18 | 16 | 25.1 | 40.2 | 37.5 | 83.3 | 2.2 | 5.6 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 6.8 |
Tamera Young | 34 | 33 | 27.6 | 43.8 | 0.0 | 55.6 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 6.7 |
Markeisha Gatling | 29 | 1 | 11.0 | 64.8 | 0.0 | 72.7 | 2.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 3.7 |
Sasha Goodlett | 34 | 15 | 12.9 | 45.4 | 0.0 | 72.2 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 3.4 |
Courtney Clements | 33 | 1 | 11.4 | 36.4 | 17.4 | 100.0 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.7 |
Gennifer Brandon | 16 | 2 | 7.6 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 46.2 | 2.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.8 |
Aaryn Ellenberg | 2 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Player | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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Elena Delle Donne | 9 | 9 | 31.0 | 48.2 | 37.9 | 91.9 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 16.8 |
Sylvia Fowles | 9 | 9 | 36.2 | 53.8 | 0.0 | 77.3 | 9.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 16.2 |
Allie Quigley | 9 | 0 | 25.7 | 41.2 | 34.2 | 89.7 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 14.2 |
Epiphanny Prince | 9 | 9 | 29.1 | 29.6 | 27.3 | 80.0 | 3.4 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 9.2 |
Tamera Young | 9 | 9 | 29.8 | 43.1 | 0.0 | 52.4 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 7.4 |
Courtney Vandersloot | 9 | 9 | 29.8 | 38.3 | 13.3 | 85.0 | 2.3 | 6.4 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 7.2 |
Jessica Breland | 7 | 0 | 13.0 | 38.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 2.3 |
Jamierra Faulkner | 9 | 0 | 5.9 | 36.8 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.2 |
Markeisha Gatling | 5 | 0 | 4.2 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
Gennifer Brandon | 2 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Sasha Goodlett | 7 | 0 | 4.1 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
Courtney Clements | 5 | 0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Recipient | Award | Date awarded | Ref. |
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Elena Delle Donne | Eastern Conference Player of the Week | May 28 | [13] |
Eastern Conference Player of the Month - May | May | [14] | |
WNBA All-Star Starter | July 8 | [15] | |
Jessica Breland | WNBA All-Star Selection | July 15 | [16] |
Allie Quigley | Eastern Conference Player of the Week | August 11 | [17] |
WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year | August 24 | [18] | |
Sylvia Fowles | All-Defensive Second Team | August 22 | [19] |
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