2024 WNBA Finals: Playoff bracket, ratings, schedule, results, structure, gaze on-line, TV channel, launch times

The 2024 WNBA Finals is now tied at 1-1 after the Original York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx, 80-66, in Sport 2 on Sunday afternoon. The Lynx once yet again made a severe comeback within the 2d half to flip a 17-level sport proper into a two-level sport, but this time their effort fell short, because the Liberty pulled away down the stretch. Now, the sequence will shift to Minneapolis for a pivotal Sport 3 on Wednesday. 

The Liberty progressed to the Finals after eliminating the reigning champion Las Vegas Aces on Sunday with a 76-62 in in Sport 4 of their semifinal sequence. Breanna Stewart led the arrangement with 19 aspects, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and four blocks in a monster all-spherical effort, because the Liberty pulled away with a dominant fourth quarter. 

Within the other semifinal, the Lynx wanted 5 video games to tackle the Connecticut Solar. The winner-catch-all Sport 5 proved to be anticlimactic, on the other hand, because the Lynx led by double digits almost all of the arrangement. Napheesa Collier build up 27 aspects, 11 rebounds, four assists and four blocks to handbook the arrangement for the Lynx, and within the technique became the first player and not utilizing a longer much less than 25 aspects and 10 rebounds in three consecutive playoff video games. 

Bracket

Finals (finest-of-5)

All times Japanese

Thursday, Oct. 10 (Sport 1)

• Lynx 95, Liberty 93 — OT (Lynx, 1-0)

Sunday, Oct. 13 (Sport 2)

• Liberty 80, Lynx 66 (Series tied, 1-1)

Wednesday, Oct. 16 (Sport 3)

• No. 1 Original York Liberty at No. 2 Minnesota Lynx, 8 p.m. — ESPN

Friday, Oct. 18 (Sport 4)

• No. 1 Original York Liberty at No. 2 Minnesota Lynx, 8 p.m. — ESPN

Sunday, Oct. 20 (Sport 5)*

• No. 2 Minnesota Lynx at No. 1 Original York Liberty, 8 p.m. — ESPN

*If major

Semifinals (finest-of-5)

Sunday, Sept. 29 (Sport 1s)

• Liberty 87, Aces 77 (Liberty, 1-0)
• Solar 73, Lynx 70 (Solar, 1-0)

Tuesday, Oct. 1 (Sport 2s)

• Liberty 88, Aces 84 (Liberty, 2-0)
• Lynx 77, Solar 70 (Series tied, 1-1)

Friday, Oct. 4 (Sport 3s)

• Lynx 90, Solar 81 (Lynx, 2-1)
• Aces 95, Liberty 81 (Liberty, 2-1)

Sunday, Oct. 6 (Sport 4s)

• Liberty 72, Aces 62 (Liberty take, 3-1)
• Solar 92, Lynx 82 (Series tied, 2-2)

Tuesday, Oct. 8 (Sport 5)

• Lynx 88, Solar 77 (Lynx take, 3-2)

First spherical (finest-of-three)

Sunday, Sept. 22 (Sport 1s)

• Liberty 83, Dream 69 (Liberty, 1-0)
• Solar 93, Fever 69 (Solar, 1-0)
• Lynx 102, Mercury 95 (Lynx, 1-0)
• Aces 78, Storm 67 (Aces, 1-0)

Tuesday, Sept. 24 (Sport 2s)

• Liberty 91, Dream 82 (Liberty take, 2-0)
• Aces 83, Storm 76 (Aces take, 2-0)

Wednesday, Sept. 25 (Sport 2s)

• Solar 87, Fever 81 (Solar take, 2-0)
• Lynx 101, Mercury 88 (Lynx take, 2-0)