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The 2024 WNBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the Women's National Basketball Association's 2024 season. The playoffs began on September 22, 2024, and ended on October 20, 2024 with the New York Liberty winning their first championship.
The New York Liberty lead the 2024 WNBA Finals 2-1 after beating the Minnesota Lynx on the road Wednesday night.. In Game 1, the Lynx surprised New York with a 95-93 overtime win at the Barclays ...
— WNBA (@WNBA) September 25, 2024 Indiana Fever at Connecticut Sun The Fever meet the Sun in Uncasville at the Mohegan Sun Arena for Game 2 of their best-of-three series Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. ET.
The Liberty, who rolled to a dominant win in Game 1 of the series, now lead 2-0 in a rematch of last season’s WNBA Finals. WNBA teams are 18-0 in the postseason when leading a series 2-0.
The league comprises 13 teams (15 in 2026). It is considered the premier professional women's basketball league in the world. [citation needed] The WNBA is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The WNBA was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA); league play began in 1997. The regular ...
This was the first year of existence for the WNBA. There were only 8 teams in the league. For the playoffs, the four teams with the best record in the league were seeded one to four. Houston was in the Eastern Conference in 1997 so two Eastern Conference teams matched up in the WNBA Championship.
The Minnesota Lynx are one win away from the WNBA Finals after a 90-81 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Game 3 of their semifinals matchup. The Lynx took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.
This was the highest rated WNBA broadcast on ESPN since a 1999 Western Conference Finals game between the Houston Comets and Los Angeles Sparks received 1,052,000 viewers and a 1.1 household rating. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The average viewership for the 4 finals games in 2012 was 477,000.