A year ago, Las Vegas beat New York to win its second straight title. Their WNBA Finals rematch opens Sunday in the semifinals.
Michael Voepel is a senior writer who covers the WNBA, women's college basketball and other college sports. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.will meet again in the WNBA playoffs. Only this time, it's in the semifinals, 11 months after the Aces beat the Liberty in the WNBA Finals.
Stewart won her championships with Seattle in 2018 and 2020, and came as a free agent to New York last season. The narrative of 2023 was Las Vegas and New York as"superteams" and they lived up to it with a Finals matchup that the Aces won 3-1. The Aces responded, and it marked a turning point. They've lost just once since: 75-71 on Sept. 8 at New York, when Wilson missed the game with an ankle injury.was still out for the first one and Wilson missed the third. In the Aces' 79-67 loss to the Liberty on Aug. 17, guardNone of this is meant to diminish the Liberty's victories or make excuses for Las Vegas. But the Aces are a better, more complete team now than they were for any of those games.
Stewart didn't fully look like herself in the playoffs last season. She still averaged 18.4 points and 10.2 rebounds in the Liberty's 10 playoff games, but she shot just 35.8% from the field and 19.6% from behind the arc.
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