There is ice in her veins as she sinks buckets on back to back possessions. There is a time and a place for this.
Las Vegas returned to the finals for the second time in three years with a 97-92 victory over the Seattle Storm in the fourth game of the semifinals.
After losing to Seattle in the 2020 finals, the Aces were on the verge of returning last year but lost in the semifinals to the Mercury.
After dropping the first game of the series at home, Las Vegas went on to win three in a row.
The end of Sue Bird's career was achieved by the A's. In June, the Storm point guard announced that this would be her final season.
The Storm got great performances from both of their other stars. Breanna Stewart scored a career-high 42 points in a playoff game, tying an old record. The All-Star scored 26 points in the first game of the series, but added 29 in the second.
The 71 combined points for Loyd and Stewart were the most ever for teammates in a playoff game.
There were three ties and three lead changes in the fourth quarter as Las Vegas countered Seattle's stars with deeper offensive contributions.
Gray scored three consecutive jumpers with a high degree of difficulty in the game's final 2:03, the first two giving the Aces the lead and the last one extending it to five with 30.7 seconds left. The Storm couldn't get closer than three points.
It was the first such game in the history of the NBA's playoffs, and Gray was the leader with 31 points and 10 assists. A'ja Wilson had her second double-double of the series, as well as 18 points and 15 from the other two players.
The Seattle players scored in double figures.
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