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2000 Phoenix Mercury season

WNBA team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ3901591 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2000 WNBA season was the fourth season for the Phoenix Mercury. They made the playoffs for the first time in two years but were swept in the first round to the Los Angeles Sparks. It was the last time Phoenix were in the playoffs until the 2007 season.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2000 Phoenix Mercury season” as wNBA team season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Phoenix, Mercury and season can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wNBA team season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3901591. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “2000 Phoenix Mercury season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.