Open Thread: New York Liberty are the 2024 WNBA champions

10/21/2024 06:00 AM

A historic overtime closeout Finals extravaganza

Happy Monday.

Last night I wanted to write about Saturday's Spurs scrimmage, but I became enthralled with Game 5 of the WNBA Finals. For the final time, the WNBA champion was determined by a best-of-five series. Next season, the league moves into a best-of-seven upgrade.

Although I hadn't watched a lot of WNBA this summer, the energy of this WNBA Finals was unavoidable if you spend any part of your day researching sports.

Three of the four games had been determined by made or missed buzzer-beaters. Game 1 went into overtime.

Game 5 did not disappoint. It was the first closeout game in WNBA Finals history to go into overtime. While Minnesota owned the first half, they had to respond to a counter attacked from New York in the second half. Breanna Stewart caused the most nail-biting moments of the fourth quarter. She first missed two free throws that could have tied the game, only to make the next pair sending the game into overtime. She also hit two in overtime that put the game out of reach for the Minnesota Lynx.

Congratulations to the New York Liberty, one of the original WNBA teams, who had not won a championship during their twenty-eight year run.

No timetable announced for a New York victory parade as of the time oft this writing.

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