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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
And then there were two.
The No. 1 seed New York Liberty and No. 2 seed Minnesota Lynx will vie for the 2024 championship in a best-of-five WNBA Finals beginning Thursday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN) with Game 1 in Brooklyn.
Both teams enter the Finals with contrasting histories. The Liberty, one of the league’s original franchises, are still searching for their first title, with last year’s Finals defeat still fresh in their minds.
The Lynx were one of the most storied dynasties in the sport after winning four championships between 2011 and 2017 — the latter also marking the last time they appeared in a Finals series, until this season.
With Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu leading the way, New York was widely…
