Napheesa Collier leads the Minnesota Lynx against Breanna Stewart and the New York Liberty in Game 1 of the 2024 WNBA Finals.
For the first time in WNBA history, the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty face off in the WNBA Finals. New York has played for the championship five times, including last season, and is seeking its first championship. Minnesota has been to the finals six times, most in WNBA history, and looks to add to its already record four championships. This season the finals feature the top two teams in the WNBA and two of the best players in the game today. Two-time MVP Breanna Stewart looks to lead her home state team to its first WNBA Championship in the same year she led Team USA to another Gold Medal. Her teammate on Team USA, MVP runner-up Napheesa Collier, has Minnesota playing elite basketball on both ends of the floor and heading into Game 1 looking to steal one on the road.
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Game Date: Oct. 10, 2024
Game Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
TV: ESPN
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This season Minnesota is 3-1 against New York and is the only team to beat the top-seeded team in the WNBA multiple times during the regular season. One of those games came in the Commissioner’s Cup Finals where Minnesota won an epic showdown (94-89) led by Bridget Carleton with 23 points on 6-8 shooting from three.
This season Carleton is averaging 18.6 points per game against New York. That is nearly double her regular season average overall. Carleton shot 13-20 from three in those three wins playing her best basketball of the season against the best team in the league. In the one loss to New York this season Carleton finished 0-1 from three with just one point.
Minnesota was one of just two teams to hold New York to under 80.0 points per game. The playoffs and the finals are a different setting than the regular season. For her career Stewart is averaging 22.7 points in 10 WNBA Finals games going 7-3 with two championships and two Finals MVPs.
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