The New York Liberty did everything they needed to do Sunday, and that list is three letters long: win. After losing Game 1 of the WNBA Finals by accidentally sticking their heads in a vacuum cleaner and pressing ON, the Liberty needed to beat the Minnesota Lynx in Game 2 to salvage their championship hopes, primarily, and to extinguish any existential dread if they had time.
Well, they did it: Liberty 80, Lynx 66, and the best-of-five Finals is tied 1–1 as it moves to Minnesota. Liberty star Breanna Stewart was the best player on the court, as she usually is; Stewart finished with 21 points, eight rebounds, five assists, a Finals-record seven steals, a block, and a beauty of a five-word quote, when she looked back at Game 1: “It’s not always like that.”
