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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 ...
[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 ...
Seimone Augustus during the 2017 WNBA Finals. The 2011 season began with strong publicity brought on by the rising young stars of the league and the NBA lockout. [37] The 2011 NBA lockout began on July 1, 2011. Unlike the previous lockout, which affected the WNBA, president Laurel J. Richie confirmed that this lockout would not affect the WNBA.
Seeking to win its first WNBA championship, New York advanced to the finals for the second year in a row after defeating the Las Vegas Aces 76-62 on Sunday to win the semifinal series 3-1.
The New York Liberty have tied the series against the Minnesota Lynx heading into Game 3. Here is the current bracket, schedule, and results from the finals.
This is a list of Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) franchise post-season appearance streaks. This list includes the all-time and the active consecutive playoffs appearance. Aside from the WNBA Playoff appearance streaks, this list also includes the WNBA Finals appearance streak and the WNBA championships win streak.
In the current format of the WNBA playoffs, the top eight teams in the regular season – regardless of conference – participate in a single-elimination tournament system. The eight teams are seeded by their regular season records, with the higher seeded team (or the team with the better record) in each series given homecourt advantage.
This is a complete listing of Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) playoff series, grouped by franchise.Series featuring relocated and renamed teams are kept with their ultimate relocation franchises.