Is This the Biggest WNBA Finals Matchup Ever?

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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As much as we love an underdog story, there’s nothing quite like a clash of titans. Two heavyweights, slugging it out until only one is left standing. And that’s exactly what we have in this year’s WNBA Finals. In the first year of the W’s superteam era, we get the championship matchup we’ve been dreaming about since the offseason: the Las Vegas Aces vs the New York Liberty. Both teams are stacked with MVPs, All-Stars, and championship experience all around…but will it all live up to the hype? ESPN WNBA analyst LaChina Robinson joins us to break down this unprecedented Finals matchup…and tell us what it means for the league writ large. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lachana Robinson, you know like I know, if it's one thing we're going to do in sports,
0:06.9	it's obsessed over a hypothetical matchup that'll never happen.
0:10.2	You know, I'm talking Curry's Warriors versus Jordan's Bulls.
0:14.0	The 49ers of Montana and Rice taken on Brady and Belicex Pats.
0:18.1	But this isn't a dream.
0:19.7	It's real life.
0:20.7	It's actually happening.
0:22.4	In the first year of the W Super Team era, the Las Vegas aces and New York Liberty will
0:27.5	battle it out for the championship.
0:30.1	So my question is this, just how big of a deal is it for these teams to meet right here
0:36.3	right now?
0:37.3	Just been, it is a huge deal because it's something that we've been talking about before
0:43.0	the season even began.
0:44.8	And when you look at the storyline between these two teams, you run out of notebook paper.
0:56.5	New York having Brianna Stewart join their team in the off season, John Quill Jones,
1:02.9	also two former MVP, adding Courtney Vanderslute as well from Chicago, Sabrina Yinescu's
1:09.4	are you there?
1:10.4	But no, the lady's already there like this storyline for New York in particular with
1:14.4	huge because they've never won a championship.
1:17.8	All the other sides of this, Asia Wilson and Company are looking to do something that has
1:22.2	not been done in almost two decades in the WNBA.
1:26.8	And that's went back to back championships.
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