The Liberty gained Recreation 5 in additional time to say their first title
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The 2024 WNBA Finals delivered once more on Sunday with an exhilarating winner-take-all Recreation 5. For the primary time in franchise historical past, the New York Liberty are WNBA champions after outlasting the Minnesota Lynx, 67-62 in additional time. Jonquel Jones was named Finals MVP.
Recreation 5 was not fairly, but it surely was dramatic and entertaining. The Lynx jumped out to a 12-point lead within the first half, however the Liberty saved chipping away and took the lead heading into the fourth quarter. From there, it was a back-and-forth affair till Breanna Stewart tied the sport with a pair of controversial free throws with 5.2 seconds remaining. Within the further body, the Liberty took the lead on the primary possession by way of a Leonie Fiebich 3-pointer, and by no means trailed once more.
The Liberty shot 22 of 72 from the sphere, together with 2 of 23 from the sphere, and received simply 18 mixed factors on 5 of 34 capturing from Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu — however someway survived. Jones had a team-high 17 factors, whereas Nyara Sabally got here off the bench so as to add 13 factors within the efficiency of her life.
Bracket
Finals (best-of-five)
All occasions Japanese
Thursday, Oct. 10 (Recreation 1)
- Lynx 95, Liberty 93 — OT (Lynx, 1-0)
Sunday, Oct. 13 (Recreation 2)
- Liberty 80, Lynx 66 (Sequence tied, 1-1)
Wednesday, Oct. 16 (Recreation 3)
- Liberty 80, Lynx 77 (Liberty lead, 2-1)
Friday, Oct. 18 (Recreation 4)
- Lynx 82, Liberty 80 (Sequence tied, 2-2)
Sunday, Oct. 20 (Recreation 5)
- Liberty 67, Lynx 62 — OT (Liberty win, 3-2)
Semifinals (best-of-five)
Sunday, Sept. 29 (Recreation 1s)
Tuesday, Oct. 1 (Recreation 2s)
- Liberty 88, Aces 84 (Liberty, 2-0)
- Lynx 77, Solar 70 (Sequence tied, 1-1)
Friday, Oct. 4 (Recreation 3s)
- Lynx 90, Solar 81 (Lynx, 2-1)
- Aces 95, Liberty 81 (Liberty, 2-1)
Sunday, Oct. 6 (Recreation 4s)
- Liberty 72, Aces 62 (Liberty win, 3-1)
- Solar 92, Lynx 82 (Sequence tied, 2-2)
Tuesday, Oct. 8 (Recreation 5)
- Lynx 88, Solar 77 (Lynx win, 3-2)
First spherical (best-of-three)
Sunday, Sept. 22 (Recreation 1s)
- Liberty 83, Dream 69 (Liberty, 1-0)
- Solar 93, Fever 69 (Solar, 1-0)
- Lynx 102, Mercury 95 (Lynx, 1-0)
- Aces 78, Storm 67 (Aces, 1-0)
Tuesday, Sept. 24 (Recreation 2s)
- Liberty 91, Dream 82 (Liberty win, 2-0)
- Aces 83, Storm 76 (Aces win, 2-0)
Wednesday, Sept. 25 (Recreation 2s)
- Solar 87, Fever 81 (Solar win, 2-0)
- Lynx 101, Mercury 88 (Lynx win, 2-0)
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