October 14th 2023.
The Las Vegas Aces are one game away from making history and becoming the first team since the 2001-02 Los Angeles Sparks to win the WNBA Finals championship for two consecutive years. So far, they have certainly held up their end of the bargain by dominating the New York Liberty in both games.
In the opening game of the series, the Aces beat the Liberty by 17 points and then blew them away by a 28-point margin in Game 2. This has left the Liberty in a difficult position as no team in WNBA Finals history has come back from being down 0-2 to win the title - teams that have taken the first two games in a best-of-five playoff series are an impressive 17-0 all-time.
The Aces' stellar performance has left their coach, Becky Hammon, in awe. She commented that the team "executed defensively, offensively shared it" and is a "real team" due to their competitiveness and fight for each other. This was shown in the first two games where the Aces made history by becoming the first team to shoot 50% from the field and 40% from 3 in back-to-back Finals games. The Aces' quartet of Chelsea Gray, Kelsey Plum, A'Ja Wilson, and Jackie Young also combined for a total of 178 points in the two games - the most by a quartet of teammates in a two-game span in WNBA playoffs history.
Not only is the Aces' performance impressive, but ESPN also reported that the series is the Most-Watched WNBA Finals through Game 2 in 20 years, averaging 680,000 viewers.
The next contest is set to take place at Brooklyn's Barclay Center for Game 3 at 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, Oct. 15. Whoever comes away victorious in this game will have a huge advantage as they will be one game away from winning the championship.
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