General Manager Clare Duwelius is headed to Unrivaled, the new women’s three-on-three basketball league started by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. And associate head coach Katie Smith is headed to Ohio State, where she’ll be the assistant coach for the women’s basketball team.
Courtney Williams, Bridget Carleton, Alanna Smith, Kayla McBride and Napheesa Collier will continue with the team following a five-game WNBA Finals series.
To break down Reeve’s words, and the whole post-season for the Lynx, MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke with La Velle E. Neal III, a sports columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune.
It was a record-breaking season for the WNBA. The first three games each had over a million viewers on average, with the audience growing for each contest. The series set both the overall attendance record for a WNBA Finals as well as the average attendance mark.
The WNBA Finals have come down to a winner-take-all Game 5 with both New York and Minnesota looking to make history. The Liberty are looking for their first title on Sunday night having lost in the Finals five times. A win by the Lynx would give them five championships and break a tie with Seattle and Houston for the most in WNBA history.
The Minnesota Lynx have celebrated wins by dancing together for years. With the team in the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2017, the tradition has an even bigger meaning.
The Minnesota Lynx got the start they wanted. They just couldn’t finish off the New York Liberty. Now the Lynx will need to win two straight games to win a record fifth WNBA championship after losing 80-77 to the Liberty on a last-second shot by Sabrina Ionescu Wednesday night in Game 3 of the Finals.
Breanna Stewart scored 21 points and Betnijah Laney-Hamilton added 20 to help the New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx 80-66 on Sunday in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals.
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