2019 Atlanta Dream season explained

The 2019 WNBA season was the 12th season for the Atlanta Dream of the Women's National Basketball Association. The team began its season on May 24, 2019, against the Dallas Wings and concluded the season on September 8 against the New York Liberty.^[1]

On December 13, 2018, the Atlanta Dream announced that they would return to State Farm Arena, formerly Philips Arena, after playing the previous two seasons at Georgia Tech's McCamish Pavilion while State Farm Arena underwent a $192.5 million renovation.^[2]

The Dream endured a season without star Angel McCoughtry, who missed time with a knee ligament injury sustained in 2018. The Dream started slowly only winning 2 games of their first ten. Early July brought some hope to the team, with the Dream winning three of four games between July 5 and July 12. However, the streak would not continue as the Dream lost twelve games in a row from July 14 to August 20. The Dream won three of their last 7 games to finish with an 8–26 record, last in the WNBA. It was the Dream's second worst season in franchise history. For the first time in franchise history, the Dream did not have a player selected to the All-Star Game.

Transactions

WNBA draft

See also: 2019 WNBA draft.

Round	Pick	Player	Nationality	School/team/country
1	11	Brianna Turner		Notre Dame
2	23	Maite Cazorla		Oregon
3	35	Li Yueru		Guangdong Vermilion Birds (China)

Trades and Roster Changes

Date	Transaction
January 1, 2019	Exercised 4th-Year Team Option on Brittney Sykes
	Extended a Qualifying Offer to Damiris Dantas
January 2, 2019	Extended a Qualifying Offer to Blake Dietrick
February 2, 2019	Signed Blake Dietrick to a training-camp contract^[3]
February 6, 2019	Signed Haley Peters to a training-camp contract^[4]
February 11, 2019	Signed Lynetta Kizer to a training-camp contract^[5] ^[6]
March 15, 2019	Signed Mengran Sun to a training-camp contract^[7]
April 10, 2019	Traded F Brianna Turner to the Phoenix Mercury for Marie Gülich^[8]
April 11, 2019	Traded a 2nd round pick in the 2020 WNBA draft to the New York Liberty in exchange for Nia Coffey from the Las Vegas Aces - as part of a 3-Team Trade^[9]
April 14, 2019	Signed Maite Cazorla to a rookie-scale contract
April 17, 2019	Signed Meme Jackson to training-camp contract^[10]
May 16, 2019	Waived Meme Jackson^[11]
	Traded Imani McGee-Stafford to Dallas Wings for a 3rd round pick in the 2020 WNBA draft^[12]
May 21, 2019	Waived Lynetta Kizer^[13]
May 23, 2019	Waived Blake Dietrick^[14]
	Full Season Suspension of Mengran Sun
June 16, 2019	Temporarily Suspend Alex Bentley due to Overseas Commitments
June 19, 2019	Signed Natisha Hiedeman^[15]
July 1, 2019	Activated Alex Bentley from her Temporary Suspension
	Waived Natisha Hiedeman
July 17, 2019	Waived Haley Peters^[16]
July 18, 2019	Signed Alaina Coates^[17]

Roster

Depth

Pos.	Starter	Bench
C	Elizabeth Williams	Marie Gülich Alaina Coates
PF	Jessica Breland	Monique Billings
SF	Brittney Sykes	Nia Coffey Angel McCoughtry
SG	Tiffany Hayes	Alex Bentley
PG	Renee Montgomery	Maite Cazorla

Schedule

Preseason

|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 1| May 13| vs. Dallas| W 82–59| Bentley (15)| Gülich (6)| Tied (5)| Mohegan Sun Arena
3,300| 1–0|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 2| May 14| vs. New York| W 87–92| Coffey (18)| McGee-Stafford (6)| Tied (4)| Mohegan Sun Arena
3,458| 2–0|- bgcolor="ffcccc"| 3| May 17| Washington| L 64–75| Hayes (17)| Billings (6)| Montgomery (4)| Albany Civic Center
N/A| 2–1

Regular season

|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 1| May 24| Dallas| W 76–72| Breland (17)| Tied (6)| Sykes (4)| State Farm Arena
3,070| 1–0|- style="background:#fcc;"| 2| May 31| Seattle| L 66–82| Sykes (12)| 3 tied (8)| Bentley (4)| State Farm Arena
2,119| 1–1|- style="background:#fcc;"| 3| June 1| @ Washington| L 75–96| Tied (11)| Breland (7)| Bentley (4)| St. Elizabeth's East Arena
4,200| 1–2|- style="background:#fcc;"| 4| June 6| Las Vegas| L 69–92| Sykes (15)| Breland (9)| Montgomery (5)| State Farm Arena
2,630| 1–3|- bgcolor="ffcccc"| 5| June 9| Connecticut| L 59–65| Tied (14)| Billings (10)| Tied (3)| State Farm Arena
3,082| 1–4|- style="background:#fcc;"| 6| June 15| @ Dallas| L 61–71| Williams (16)| Williams (8)| Hayes (3)| College Park Center
5,220| 1–5|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 7| June 19| Indiana| W 88–78| Hayes (28)| Billings (8)| Montgomery (9)| State Farm Arena
6,474| 2–5|- style="background:#fcc;"| 8| June 21| @ Connecticut| L 76–86| Sykes (18)| Breland (8)| Hayes (6)| Mohegan Sun Arena
6,608| 2–6|- style="background:#fcc;"| 9| June 23| Washington| L 73–89| Hayes (18)| Billings (14)| Cazorla (6)| State Farm Arena
4,136| 2–7|- style="background:#fcc;"| 10| June 30| New York| L 58–74| Sykes (18)| Williams (8)| Tied (4)| State Farm Arena
4,359| 2–8|- style="background:#fcc;"| 11| July 2| @ Minnesota| L 68–85| Williams (14)| Breland (5)| Bentley (5)| Target Center
8,208| 2–9|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 12| July 5| @ Seattle| W 77–66| Hayes (21)| Williams (9)| Tied (5)| Alaska Airlines Arena
8,111| 3–9|- style="background:#fcc;"| 13| July 7| @ Phoenix| L 63–65| Sykes (29)| Sykes (10)| 3 tied (3)| Talking Stick Resort Arena
9,850| 3–10|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 14| July 10| Connecticut| W 78–75| Hayes (18)| Breland (13)| Tied (4)| State Farm Arena
3,866| 4–10|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 15| July 12| Minnesota| W 60–53| Williams (17)| Breland (9)| Hayes (4)| State Farm Arena
4,001| 5–10|- style="background:#fcc;"| 16| July 14| Los Angeles| L 71–76 (OT)| Hayes (24)| Billings (16)| Hayes (4)| State Farm Arena
5,083| 5–11|- style="background:#fcc;"| 17| July 17| @ Chicago| L 76–77| Montgomery (23)| Breland (11)| Tied (6)| Wintrust Arena
10,143| 5–12|- style="background:#fcc;"| 18| July 19| @ Connecticut| L 69–98| Sykes (26)| Coffey (7)| Sykes (4)| Mohegan Sun Arena
6,733| 5–13|- style="background:#fcc;"| 19| July 21| @ Washington| L 65–93| Williams (14)| Gülich (8)| Cazorla (4)| St. Elizabeth's East Arena
4,200| 5–14|- style="background:#fcc;"| 20| July 23| Los Angeles| L 66–78| Billings (16)| Tied (8)| Bentley (5)| State Farm Arena
7,047| 5–15|- style="background:#fcc;"| 21| July 31| @ Indiana| L 59–61| Williams (17)| Billings (12)| Breland (4)| Bankers Life Fieldhouse
5,702| 5–16|- style="background:#fcc;"| 22| August 3| Chicago| L 75–87| Bentley (21)| Breland (7)| Hayes (4)| State Farm Arena
5,427| 5–17|- style="background:#fcc;"| 23| August 6| Minnesota| L 69–85| Montgomery (19)| Sykes (8)| Tied (3)| State Farm Arena
3,395| 5–18|- style="background:#fcc;"| 24| August 10| @ Indiana| L 82–87| Hayes (34)| Sykes (9)| Sykes (5)| Bankers Life Fieldhouse
7,923| 5–19|- style="background:#fcc;"| 25| August 13| @ Las Vegas| L 90–94| Breland (18)| Gülich (12)| Bentley (7)| Mandalay Bay Events Center
3,532| 5–20|- style="background:#fcc;"| 26| August 16| @ Phoenix| L 68–77| Montgomery (17)| Williams (11)| Williams (4)| Talking Stick Resort Arena
8,480| 5–21|- style="background:#fcc;"| 27| August 20| Chicago| L 83–87| Hayes (27)| Billings (9)| Bentley (5)| State Farm Arena
4,662| 5–22|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 28| August 23| @ New York| W 90–87| Hayes (19)| Breland (12)| Sykes (6)| Westchester County Center
1,831| 6–22|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 29| August 25| @ Dallas| W 77–73| Hayes (23)| Breland (12)| Bentley (4)| College Park Center
4,715| 7–22|- style="background:#fcc;"| 30| August 29| Phoenix| L 58–65| Montgomery (20)| Breland (11)| 3 tied (3)| State Farm Arena
3,727| 7–23|- style="background:#fcc;"| 31| September 1| @ Seattle| L 75–92| Tied (15)| Williams (6)| Bentley (5)| Alaska Airlines Arena
9,000| 7–24|- style="background:#fcc;"| 32| September 3| @ Los Angeles| L 60–70| Tied (15)| Billings (10)| Montgomery (4)| Staples Center
9,889| 7–25|- style="background:#bbffbb;"| 33| September 5| Las Vegas| W 78–74| Williams (20)| Billings (14)| Bentley (8)| State Farm Arena
4,023| 8–25|- style="background:#fcc;"| 34| September 8| New York| L 63–71| Bentley (17)| Breland (12)| Breland (4)| State Farm Arena
5,495| 8–26

Statistics

Regular Season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
Tiffany Hayes	29	29	28.2	39.3	30.8	76.4	3.0	2.8	1.0	0.3	14.7
Brittney Sykes	34	27	25.9	36.5	25.9	70.3	4.4	2.5	0.6	0.5	10.2
Renee Montgomery	34	34	27.9	37.0	32.4	82.4	2.2	2.6	0.9	0.5	9.5
Elizabeth Williams	32	32	28.4	45.5	0.0	73.2	6.5	1.2	0.8	1.7	9.3
Alex Bentley	29	4	21.9	30.7	23.5	85.7	1.9	3.0	0.7	0.3	9.0
Jessica Breland	33	33	23.2	37.8	23.7	87.9	7.3	1.7	1.3	1.1	7.5
Monique Billings	29	2	19.1	38.9	100	78.3	6.9	0.6	0.6	0.4	5.5
Nia Coffey	28	6	13.9	33.8	37.9	54.8	2.8	0.4	0.5	0.5	5.0
Marie Gülich	31	1	11.3	36.1	32.0	72.7	2.7	0.6	0.2	0.8	3.3
Maite Cazorla	31	1	15.4	31.2	23.6	87.5	0.7	1.6	0.6	0	3.0
Alaina Coates	9	0	8.3	64.3	0	53.8	3.0	0.1	0.2	0.7	2.8
Angel McCoughtry	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Atlanta Dream 2019 Season Schedule. WNBA.com. February 11, 2019.
2. Web site: Atlanta Dream Announce 2019 Home Games to be Played at State Farm Arena. dream.wnba.com. WNBA. December 13, 2018. January 3, 2019.
3. Web site: Atlanta Dream Re-Sign Blake Dietrick to Contract. dream.wnba.com. Atlanta Dream. February 2, 2019. February 11, 2019.
4. Web site: Atlanta Dream Sign Forward Haley Peters. dream.wnba.com. Atlanta Dream. February 6, 2019. February 11, 2019.
5. Web site: Atlanta Dream Sign Forward Lynetta Kizer. dream.wnba.com. Atlanta Dream. February 11, 2019. February 11, 2019.
6. Web site: Atlanta Dream add veteran Lynetta Kizer to roster. highposthoops.com. Blake. DuDonis. February 11, 2019. February 11, 2019.
7. Web site: Atlanta Dream Add Center Mengran Sun. dream.wnba.com. Atlanta Dream. March 15, 2019. March 19, 2019.
8. Web site: Atlanta Dream draft, trade Brianna Turner. Kelsey. Russo. ajc.com. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. April 10, 2019. April 11, 2019.
9. Web site: Atlanta Dream Acquire Nia Coffey in Trade . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2022.
10. Web site: Atlanta Dream Sign Jackson to training-camp contract. dream.wnba.com. WNBA. April 17, 2019. April 19, 2019.
11. Web site: Atlanta Dream Waive Meme Jackson . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2022.
12. Web site: Dream trade center Imani McGee-Stafford to Dallas. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. May 16, 2019. May 17, 2019.
13. Web site: Atlanta Dream Waive Lynetta Kizer . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2022.
14. Web site: Atlanta Dream Finalize 2019 Season-Opening Roster . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2022.
15. Web site: Atlanta Dream Sign Natisha Hiedeman . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2022.
16. Web site: Atlanta Dream Waive Haley Peters . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2019.
17. Web site: Atlanta Dream Sign Alaina Coates . dream.wnba.com . WNBA . July 5, 2022.