9:00 pm
September 7

Mystics @ Storm

Who will WIN this matchup?

Washington Mystics (22-12)

@ Seattle Storm (26-8)

 

Current odds:

Washington Mystics: (+180)

Seattle Storm: (-220)

 

• The line for this game is Seattle by 5 points.

• Washington defeated Atlanta 86-81 with star Elena Delle Donne wearing a large brace on her left knee after suffering a bone bruise late in Game 2 and missing Game 3. Those were the only two games the Mystics lost in the series. Rookie Ariel Atkins scored 20 points, Toliver added 19, Tianna Hawkins came off the bench to score 17 and Delle Donne had 14 points and 11 rebounds in the clincher.

• Seattle outlasted Phoenix 94-84, as point guard Sue Bird scored 14 points of her season-high 22 points in the final six minutes of the finale. Bird was playing with a face mask because of a broken nose suffered late in the first half of Game 4 after running into an inadvertent elbow from teammate Breanna Stewart, the league’s MVP this season. Stewart scored 28 points, Alysha Clark added 13 points and 13 rebounds, and reserve Sami Whitcomb scored 11 for Seattle.

• It will be the Storm’s third trip to the finals, after having won titles in 2004 and 2010. Bird was a member of both of those teams.

• Seattle took the season series against Washington 2-1, with each team winning on its home court.

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