It felt like the New York Liberty slayed the Las Vegas Aces dragon in Game 2. Not that the series was over, or that they would underestimate a dynastic Aces team down 2-0, but that they ate the Aces’ very best punch.
A’ja Wilson played every second of the second half, the game came down to the wire, and after Becky Hammon spent the night animated as ever on the bench, she sounded defeated in her postgame presser.
“This is why three-peating is hard,” said the two-time champion. “The whole league has been pissed off for the last 8 months, and my players are in commercials, and this and that, and being freaking celebrities, and you get distracted.