The Arena was an old-fashioned, intimate setting for a basketball game, but its seating capacity of about 5,000 limited the team's upside attendance potential.

(This was the case even before February 4, 1997, when Lacy was lost for the season due to a severe car injury.)

An even bigger impact player proved to be the University of Alabama's Shalonda Enis, who was named the ABL's Rookie of the Year for the 1997–98 season.

Fifteen games into the Reign's third season, on December 22, 1998 the ABL suddenly reached a financial crisis and folded its operations.

[1] Unlike most localities that had an ABL team, Seattle was quickly awarded a WNBA franchise two years later.