MINNEAPOLIS — That the 2024 WNBA Finals would be decided short of a full five-game series was inconceivable. Not with the whiplash momentum swings, double-digit comebacks and elite playmaking.
The cliché coaches sprinkle into postgame answers and practice-day scrums is a series is a chess match. They tinker, making mini-adjustments for the upper hand. It’s been difficult to determine if either the New York Liberty or the Minnesota Lynx really has it at any given moment in a heavyweight bout that may go down as one of the most evenly contested Finals in WNBA history.
With it has come clutch moves, shocking endings and odd choices.