Storm are class of the WNBA
Seattle beats Las Vegas 92- 59 to complete sweep and win fourth league title.
SEATTLE 92 LAS VEGAS 59
BRADENTON, Fla. — Breanna Stewart scored 26 points, and the Seattle Storm won their second WNBA championship in three seasons, sweeping the Las Vegas Aces with a 92- 59 rout Tuesday night.
It’s the fourth title in franchise history for the Storm, who also won in 2004, 2010 and 2018. Seattle had pretty much the same core group that won the 2018 championship back for this year, led by Stewart, Sue Bird and Jewell Loyd. The Storm joined Minnesota and Houston as the only franchises to win four championships.
Seattle has won a record 11 games in a row in the WNBA Finals, dating to the team’s f irst championship in 2004. Bird has been a part of all of them. The veteran guard, who turns 40 next week, was once again a catalyst for the Storm.
“I don’t cheat, I don’t cheat the game. I do what I have to do to be able to play at a high level,” said Bird, who missed all of last season with a knee injury and played in only half of the team’s regular- season games while dealing with a bone bruise.
She f inished with f ive points and seven assists. The league’s career assists leader averaged 11 assists in the three- game sweep.
“We’re chill. We’re made for a wubble,” Bird said. “We don’t get too high or low. You saw it off the court with what we stood for and saw it on the court with how we played.”
The 26- year- old Stewart set a WNBA record by scoring more than 20 points for the sixth straight finals game. She earned WNBA Finals MVP honors for the second time in her young career, becoming the fifth player to win multiple finals MVPs.
A’ja Wilson, the regularseason MVP, tried to keep the Aces alive. She had 14 of her 18 points in the first quarter, hitting five of her nine shots.