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The finale series was known as the WNBA Championship from 1997 to 2001, before changing to WNBA Finals to reflect its NBA counterpart. In 2005, the WNBA Finals adopted a best-of-five format. In 2016, the WNBA began seeding teams #1 through #8 regardless of conference making it possible for two Eastern Conference or two Western Conference teams ...
Of the WNBA's eight inaugural teams, four remain active: the Las Vegas Aces, Los Angeles Sparks, New York Liberty, and the Phoenix Mercury. [n 1] All four teams are tied for the most games played in WNBA history, with 934. [4] The Atlanta Dream, being the WNBA's most recently established team, [5] have the least games played with 578. [4]
Most points in first career game (WNBA debut) 34 – Candace Parker , Los Angeles at Phoenix, May 17, 2008 [ 36 ] 27 – Napheesa Collier , Minnesota vs. Chicago, May 25, 2019
All-Star forward Breanna Stewart and the New York Liberty are on the verge of the franchise's first-ever WNBA championship, ... Stewart won two WNBA championships with the Storm – in 2018 over ...
[17] [18] Three current WNBA teams have yet to win a championship; among them, the Connecticut Sun has finished as runners-up in four WNBA Finals. [19] The best regular season performance in league history was set in the 1998 season by the Houston Comets, who finished with a 27–3 win–loss record—a winning percentage of 0.900. The number ...
The series went five games, including arguably one of the most thrilling games in WNBA history in game one of the series (Phoenix winning in overtime, 120–116). [35] The Mercury beat the Fever in game five, this time on their home court, capturing their second WNBA championship.
The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Houston.Formed in 1997, the team was one of the original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence.
The Liberty won game five by five points to claim their first WNBA title in their sixth finals appearance, which also marked the first championship for a professional basketball team in the New York area since the New York Nets won their second championship in the ABA in 1976. [18] [19]