By season's end, Comets owner Hilton Koch put the franchise up for sale less than two years after he bought it.
[7] One of the assists included a no-look pass in the closing minutes of the Detroit Shock's 79–61 loss to the Houston Comets on July 24.
[8] On December 1, 2008, the WNBA announced a plan to fold the team, which resulted in the loss of 37 jobs.
Before the team folded, they were possibly going to move to Las Vegas, Nevada, but the plan didn't work out.
What turned out to be the team's final home game in its history was relocated from the Reliant Arena to the Strahan Coliseum on the campus of Texas State due to Hurricane Ike.