The news article is about the WNBA Finals Game 5 between the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty.

The news article is about the WNBA Finals Game 5 between the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty. This is the eighth time in WNBA history that the finalists have played it down to the end. Cheryl Reeve, the Lynx coach, will be there for the sixth time. The Lynx forced the decisive Game 5 with a victory over the Liberty, won on Bridget Carleton's two free throws with two seconds left.


The Liberty are in the WNBA Finals for the sixth
 time, but they are 0-5 so far. The Lynx are going for a record fifth WNBA title. The Lynx won four championships in seven years, and lost in the Finals two other times with stars like Maya Moore, Lindsay Whalen, Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles, and Rebekkah Brunson. Now the Lynx are back in a Finals Game 5 for the fourth time, with a new collection of stars but with Cheryl Reeve as coach every time.Reeve will have been involved in six of the eight WNBA Finals Game 5s. She was a Detroit Shock assistant coach in 2006 and 2007, and with the Lynx in 2015, 2016, 2017, and now 2024. Her teams won in 2006, 2015, and 2017, and sustained a blowout home loss to Phoenix in 2007

 
 . The Lynx stretched the series to its limit even though stars Napheesa Collier and Courtney Williams were scoreless in Friday’s fourth quarter. In turn, Liberty stars Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu shot a combined 10-for-36 and together were 0-9 on three-point attempts. The Liberty were 32-8 in the regular season, two games better than the 30-10 Lynx. That earned them the playoffs’ first seed and the right to have homecourt advantage through the playoffs. The payoff, theoretically, comes Sunday night. Both Brondello and Reeve worked the officials publicly after the past two games.

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