Two days after taking down the Connecticut Sun in a winner-take-all Game 5 to claim the semifinals series and advance to the WNBA Finals for the first time in seven years, the Minnesota Lynx quickly shifted focus to the league-leading New York Liberty and continuing the journey towards a WNBA championship on Thursday night.
Minnesota and New York opened up the best-of-five WNBA Finals with Game 1 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the first of two games in New York to open up the series before it shifts back to Minnesota for Game 3 and potentially Game 4.