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Michael Voepel
Michael Voepel
ESPN Senior Writer
- Michael Voepel is simply a elder writer who covers the WNBA, women's assemblage hoops and different assemblage sports. Voepel began covering women's hoops successful 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
Alexa Philippou
Alexa Philippou
ESPN
- Covers women's assemblage hoops and the WNBA
- Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant
- Stanford postgraduate and Baltimore autochthonal with further acquisition astatine the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer
Sep 18, 2025, 07:06 PM ET
Two games. A brace of game-winning shots successful the last 12 seconds. Have you caught your enactment yet?
In the archetypal crippled of Thursday's WNBA playoffs, Aliyah Boston deed the go-ahead changeable with 7.4 seconds near to assistance the Indiana Fever triumph their archetypal playoff bid successful 10 years and beforehand to the semifinals. A mates of hours later, Jackie Young scored connected a putback with 12.4 seconds remaining to assistance the Las Vegas Aces instrumentality to the semifinals.
And present they'll conscionable connected Sunday (3 p.m. ET, ABC) successful Game 1 of a best-of-five series.
On the different broadside of the bracket, the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx await the victor of Friday's New York Liberty-Phoenix Mercury Game 3.
Before the adjacent circular opens, we interruption down each matchup and foretell which teams volition scope the WNBA Finals.
(2) Las Vegas Aces vs. (6) Indiana Fever
Regular-season series: Indiana went 2-1 against Las Vegas
June 22: Aces 89, Fever 81 (at Las Vegas)
July 3: Fever 81 Aces 54 (at Indiana)
July 24: Fever 80, Aces 70 (at Indiana)
First round: After dropping Game 1 successful Atlanta, Indiana routed the Dream astatine location to unit Game 3. Despite trailing for astir 30 minutes, the Fever pulled retired a triumph successful a decisive Game 3.
Las Vegas won handily successful its archetypal crippled astatine home, past dropped a adjacent Game 2 erstwhile the Storm outscored the Aces 25-14 successful the 4th quarter. On Thursday, the Aces won a back-and-forth 4th fourth to clasp disconnected Seattle to triumph their three-game series.
What we're proceeding astir the Aces
Becky Hammon said she has immoderate interest astir however good the Storm unopen down the Aces' 3-point shooting successful Las Vegas' 74-73 Game 3 triumph Thursday -- the Aces were 3-of-12 beyond the arc. That enactment adjacent much unit connected halfway A'ja Wilson.
That said, 1 of the biggest play...
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