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A San Antonio Silver Stars come the team in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) based in San Antonio, Texas. One of a creation teams of a WNBA, it use as well historically been one of the least successful teams in the league.

Originally depending around Salt Lake City, Utah under a title the Utah Starzz, a team moved to Texas in 2003.

A Starzz come a sister team of the San Antonio Spurs.

Uniforms: 2003 - Present: Home, silver by owning black trim. Stars logotype text is on the chest within black. Out of front yard, melanize by using silver trim. Stars logotype text is on the chest around white.

1997 - 2002: Home, white by using blue & purple trim. Starzz logotype end line text is on the chest around purple. Out of personal, teal using whiten Starzz logotype text on the chest & blue trim unofficially. Starzz logotype "U" is on the correct leg of the shorts.

History
One of a eight original WNBA teams, a Utah Starzz (even known as when the old ABA team, the Utah Stars) never fully met the equivalent profits when their NBA counterpart, the Utah Jazz. It held a distinction of getting a worst record inside the WNBA in 1997 and were the number 1 team to pick out in the 1998 WNBA Draft. By using their choice, it picked Heptad foot. Two inside. center Margo Dydek, who well became a tallest streaming video player around WNBA history. Unluckily, a pickup of Dydek did little to help their stimulate & it over again finished touching a bottom of the league in the 1998 year.

Despite getting the firm nucleus of stars in Jennifer Azzi, Natalie Williams and Marie Ferdinand the Starzz never ranked among the WNBA elite group. the want of commercial profits a franchise encountered around Utah resulted inside a move to San Antonio, Texas and a vary of title to the San Antonio Silver Stars.

Around 2003, the Silver Stars processed their foremost major roll move whenever it traded star Natalie Williams along by using Coretta Black to the Indiana Fever in exchange for Sylvia Crawley and Gwen Jackson. Prior to a 2005 season, the team traded away star Margo Dydek. Since moving a San Antonio, a franchise has been largely unable to vary its losing trend & has non manufactured a playoffs.

Players of note
Retired numbers

Hall of Famers

Not to be forgotten
Jennifer Azzi Elena Baranova Margo Dydek Adrienne Goodson Dena Head, now an Adjunct Coach at Central Connecticut State University Semeka Randall, now an Adjunct Coach at Michigan State University Natalie Williams

Current stars
Chantelle Anderson Edna Campbell Katie Feenstra Marie Ferdinand Shannon Johnson Wendy Palmer-Daniel LaToya Thomas

Washington Post Online: Silver Stars
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