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Title: “1999 WNBA Championship.”

Producer: WNBA Enterprises.

Price: $19.95

This 60-minute video captures the most compelling and dramatic of the Houston Comets’ three WNBA championship seasons.

With the league’s best player, Cynthia Cooper, grieving, first after the death of her mother, and then, with her teammates, after the late-season death of another teammate, Kim Perrot, the Comets still prevailed.

Their coach, Van Chancellor, said, “They’re great players, sure--great players--but nobody understands the character of the Comets. There’s still a youngness about them, an excitement about them. What a combination!”

The day after Perrot’s death of cancer--Cooper was at her bedside--the Comets played the Sparks in Los Angeles. For the first time in 14 pro seasons, Cooper didn’t suit up.

“I just couldn’t,” she says on the video. “I just couldn’t.”

But she bounced back quickly.

“My mom always told me to channel negative energy into something positive, something you can use out there on the court,” she said. “I’ve tried to live by that. But you know what? It’s hard.”

Hard to watch too, particularly the scene in which an emaciated Perrot receives her 1998 championship ring.

But Cooper and her teammates did rebound, beating the Sparks and then New York in the playoffs.

Unfortunately, the WNBA deleted one of the best-remembered incidents of the Sparks-Comets Western Conference finals--the brawl between onetime USC teammates, Lisa Leslie of the Sparks and Tina Thompson of the Comets.