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Alexa Philippou
ESPN
- Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
The Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty will clash in what might be a WNBA Finals preview, playing throughout August and starting Sunday (3 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN App).
This weekend’s matchup at Barclays Center is the first of four games between the WNBA’s top two teams. The Aces beat the Liberty 98-81 in their first meeting in Las Vegas on June 29.
They play again Aug. 17 in Las Vegas and Aug. 28 in New York — plus the Commissioner’s Cup final, which is Aug. 15 in Las Vegas.
It might seem like too much of a good thing in one month. The Aces-Liberty meetings ideally would have been more spread out, but the WNBA schedule was released in November, long before the offseason moves in January and February that transformed the Liberty into the perceived top challenger…
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