The Aces rallied late, then “held on” to earn a 70-69 victory over the Liberty and “win their second straight WNBA championship” in Game 4 at the Barclays Center last night. With the victory, the Aces became the first team since the 2001-2002 Sparks to win “back-to-back titles” (LAS VEGAS SUN, 10/18). Owner of Aces Marc Davis “watched with a smile” as his team celebrated its second consecutive championship. Davis is in his third season as Aces owner, and he “already has two championships to show for it.” However, Davis credited the Aces coach Becky Hammongeneral manager Nathalie Williams and president Nikki Fargas for “taking the franchise back to a championship” (LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 10/18).
The WNBA has “crowned its final dynasty.” The team’s back-to-back titles “catapulted the Aces into rarefied air”, joining the Comets and Sparks as the only teams to win back-to-back WNBA championships. Now, 21 years later, the Aces have written themselves “into WNBA history,” emerging from the 2023 Finals “not only as the definitive superteam, but as a group worthy of historic designation.” (IF, 10/18).
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