The Atlanta Dream is a professional basketball team based in Atlanta, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the 2008 WNBA season began. The team is owned by Dream Too LLC, which is composed of two Atlanta businesswomen: Mary Brock, and Kelly Loeffler. Like some other WNBA teams, the Dream is not affiliated with an NBA counterpart, even though the Dream share the market with the Atlanta Hawks.
History
Franchise Inception[edit] Even before the success of the United States womens basketball team in the 1996 Olympic Games, the American Basketball League had interest in placing a womens professional basketball team in Atlanta. Plans were made to place a womens pro team in Atlanta as early as 1995.[2] Eight of the 12 Olympians would play on ABL teams when the league began play in October 1996.[3] The Atlanta Glory played at Forbes Arena and would last two seasons before folding before the start of the 1998–99 season, which would be the ABLs final.