The San Francisco Legacy was the last original franchise of the
National Women's Basketball League
The National Women's Basketball League, often abbreviated to the NWBL, was an organization governing professional basketball leagues for women in the United States. The league was founded in 1997 and began play in the Fall of that year. The league ...
(NWBL). Originally established in 2001 as the
Kansas City Legacy
The San Francisco Legacy was the last original franchise of the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). Originally established in 2001 as the Kansas City Legacy, the franchise moved in 2003 to Knoxville, Tennessee and became the Tennessee Fu ...
, the franchise moved in 2003 to
Knoxville
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's ...
,
Tennessee
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and became the
Tennessee Fury
The San Francisco Legacy was the last original franchise of the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). Originally established in 2001 as the Kansas City Legacy, the franchise moved in 2003 to Knoxville, Tennessee and became the Tennessee Fur ...
. Then in 2004 it moved to
Dallas
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, and was known as the
Dallas Fury
The San Francisco Legacy was the last original franchise of the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL). Originally established in 2001 as the Kansas City Legacy, the franchise moved in 2003 to Knoxville, Tennessee and became the Tennessee Fu ...
, where it won the league championship that year. The team moved to
Oakland
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay A ...
and took its original name in 2006.
Team record
*2001 -
*2002 -
*2003 -
*2004 -
*2005 -
*2006 - 0–18
External links
NWBL website(archive link)
Sports teams in Oakland, California
Basketball teams in the San Francisco Bay Area
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