The New York Liberty's sweep of the Seattle Storm allowed them to clinch homecourt advantage for at least the first round of the WNBA playoffs.
In front of a crowd that included rapper Flavor Flav and NBA legend Dwyane Wade, the Liberty earned a 77-70 victory over the Seattle Storm, assuring they'll fiinish no worse than third on the ucomig WNBA postseason bracket. The magic number for the Liberty to clinch the top seed is also down to four.
Primarily sustained by a strong outside game for Skylar Diggins-Smith and the arrival of French Olympic heroine Gabby Williams, Seatte used a 15-6 run and struggles from former franchise face Breanna Stewart to build a four-point lead just beyond the halfway mark of the third. The momentum was stifled by Kennedy Burke's first minutes of the ball game: Kayla Thronton's three began a new run before a surrounded Sabrina Ionescu found a streaking Burke for a game-changing double.
Jones ended the night with 15 points and eight rebounds while Ionescu flirted with a triple-double, falling four rebounds and two assists short along with her 17 tallies. Stewart, who missed all but one of her first 10 tries from the field, went 4-of-6 the rest of the way, as she and Laney-Hamilton united to score each of the Liberty's 15 fourth quarter points while limiting Seattle to 13.
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