The Sun welcomed the Dream into the league with a dominating 100-68 win.

Atlanta got off to a good start and had some highlights for the franchise's first game. But the Sun proved to have too many weapons and reached the century mark for the first time at home. As Tamika Raymond commented, ”For us to pull out a win if any caliber, whether it's an expansion team or the team they picked to finish No. 1 in the east, it's a great win for us.”

Barbara Turner scored 15 points off the bench in her Sun debut and energized the crowd and her team. "She got that energy flowing in all of us," Tamika Whitmore said. "The crowd fed off her. We fed off her. We started to run more smoothly." Whitmore had a game high 22 points and Ashja Jones added 18. The Sun outrebounded the Dream 53-29. Their rebounding total was a team record.

Said Mike Thibault: “I don’t think we scratched the surface of what we can be.”