Las Vegas can become the first team in more than 20 years to win back-to-back WNBA championships.
Aj’a Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces can become the WNBA’s first repeat champion since the 2001-02 Los Angeles Sparks with a victory Sunday afternoon in New York. NEW YORK — The annoyance radiating off Chelsea Gray was palpable Friday afternoon. She stood on the New York Liberty’s practice court in the belly of Barclays Center, rolled her eyes and shook her head, more than ready to join her Las Vegas Aces teammates.
The business is unfinished for the Aces, but that doesn’t take away the fact that the team has a chance to make history Sunday afternoon when it faces the Liberty in Game 3 of the WNBA Finals. A victory would give the Aces a three-game sweep and make them the first team to win back-to-back WNBA championships since the Los Angeles Sparks in 2001-02 — and that’s just the start.
“People’s roles change, mind-sets, personalities,” Augustus said. “Success brings some things out of people, and some and it could be good or bad.The second year, you’re not a surprise. And so that expectation, the bull’s eye that’s on your back, every arena that you step into, everybody is just shooting and gunning after you. And that’s a different feel than the feel that you had the year before. Can you endure that?”Most of the Aces’ roster is the same from the 2022 championship team.
During the regular season, Wilson, Plum, Young and Gray became the first four teammates in league history to average 15 points per game or more, and the team’s offensive efficiency rating of 113.0 set a league record. Hammon skipped over all other WNBA teams to find a comparison for her squad and went to the 2014 NBA champion San Antonio Spurs that featured Hall of Famers Tim Duncan, Manu Ginóbili and Tony Parker. She actually had her team watch tape of those Spurs.
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