REAL SPORTS Most Important Moments in Sports 2014 edition
Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi’s play during the 2014 WNBA Championship, in particular the fourth period of decisive Game Three, likely left the Chicago Sky feeling as if they had just been hit by a tsunami.
Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi’s play during the 2014 WNBA Championship, in particular the fourth period of decisive Game Three, likely left the Chicago Sky feeling as if they had just been hit by a tsunami.
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Watch Diana Taurasi hit the go ahead bucket to lead
her team to victory in the WNBA Finals
Watch Diana Taurasi hit the go ahead bucket to lead
her team to victory in the WNBA Finals
The Mercury capped a season in which it won a record 29 games by sweeping the Sky in the best-of-five game series, earning Taurasi and Phoenix their third league championship in eight years.
The Sky, which was 15-19 in the regular season, had caught fire in the early rounds of the playoffs to make it to the championship series, but those early playoff heroics didn’t carry over into the finals. Even though Phoenix lost Brittney Griner, its starting center and defensive player of the year, to an eye injury during Game Two, the Sky, led by injury-plagued Elena Delle Donne, could not escape the inevitable.
In Game Three, Taurasi demonstrated why, at age 32, she remains one of the greatest scorers and playmakers in league history by scoring 14 of her 24 points in the fourth period to lead the Mercury to an 87-82 win. In the end, she was the championship MVP for the second time in her career.
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