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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
WNBA fans have two days to catch their breath before the race to the 2023 championship continues Wednesday. The seeding order wasn’t finalized until the last day of the regular season Sunday, but the two teams projected to be on top — the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty — are there.
Will that still be the case about a month from now when the WNBA Finals begin Oct. 8?
“You can’t really focus on anything but the next game, because people are too good,” Las Vegas guard Kelsey Plum said. “Forget everything that happened in the regular season. You have to treat it as a one-and-done type of thing in terms of our sense of urgency.”
Two of the first-round series, which are best of three, will open Wednesday; the other two begin Friday, with all games on the…
