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The Liberty are the favorites, but the Lynx had their number this season.
Natalie Nakase has spent the last three years as an assistant with the Las Vegas Aces.
The Liberty have been Finals worthy but kept running into dominant teams and players.
The New York Liberty are back in the Finals, looking for the first championship in franchise history. They’ll have to beat the Minnesota Lynx to do it.
Napheesa Collier had 27 points and 11 rebounds and Courtney Williams contributed 24 points and both-ends-of-the-court energy to lead the Minnesota Lynx past the Connecticut Sun 88-77 and into the WNBA Finals for the first time in seven years on Tuesday night.
Caitlin Clark wasn’t joking when she included golf in her offseason plans.
Becky Hammon acknowledged if Las Vegas is to return to championship form, the organization can’t sit still.
The Connecticut Sun are no strangers to needing a win in Minnesota to advance in the playoffs.
The celebration was relatively muted given how long the Liberty had waited to exact revenge on the Aces for beating New York on its home court in last year’s WNBA Finals.
Ionescu rebounded from a rare off game to score 22 points, and nearly a year after the Aces ended the Liberty’s dream of a championship, New York returned the favor Sunday afternoon by defeating Las Vegas 76-62 to advance to the WNBA Finals.
