A lot of people are misinformed because they've never played the game. Breanna Stewart did not travel. She fumbled the ball as it was passed to her, and when she finally gained possession of the ball, she gathered herself and jump stopped toward the elbow, where she was hit on the wrist as she trying to tie the game, which is why her shot missed so badly. The ESPN commentators didn't even mention a travel because they knew that she didn't do it.
@@BOSSenjoyerlol can’t do that to loyal been a fan of them since they existed but I did not want a championship in that way the series was great up until that non sense
she traveled before the foul and the foul wasn’t even a foul. The sad part is that the lynx challenged it abd the officials still went with robbing the lynx. She put her hands straight up standing still and the contact was initiated by breanna.
Minnesota got robbed out of this championship. Not only that was clearly not a foul whatsoever, Stewart clearly traveled on the play. I'm a Liberty fan but I'll be the first one to tell you that we got bailed out. That was not a foul and the fact that Liberty shot 25 free throws compared to Minnesota's 7 just shows even more than the refs tried to help New York to win. Bruh the Liberty shot 30% from the field in that game. What team is winning a game while shooting 30%, not one. Minnesota clearly got robbed
The WNBA has a huge officiating problem because the refs are incompetent, inconsistent, and corrupt. And they've been rigging games all season. Cathy Englebert must hire skilled and competent referees with integrity for next season.
Except sab really fouled BC. You can’t go under a player and hook them from the back. The foul that Stewie got was nonexistent…Especially since NY was able to be super aggressive the entire game and we got called for ticky tac fouls.
I am not going to lie. LeBron James and Coach Cheryl Reeve were right about that controversial call. Like LeBron said, let the players dictate the game.
LeBald should be the last person to comment on officiating issues --- his stats AND career has lasted this long in part BECAUSE of soft fouls called on him his entire career
@@JumpMan69It's facts that LeBron does not get a lot of the foul calls he deserves when he drives to the basket. It's actually something that is known and said for years around the league.
@thebest_everrrrrrrrrrrr Let me guess, you think Jorbum or Kobrick is the GOAT or greater than LeBron. Kobaldy and Jorbaldy got more soft and fake free throws than LeGOAT. They were the free throw merchants who hogged the ball. Jorbaldy knows that and hasn't ever dared to talk about Basketball recently cuz he knows he played in plumbers era.😂😂😂
@@jasonhoppe781 Even cops are less protected than refs I'm deadass serious. Refs can do ANYTHING on the court and the league won't do sh*t. Not even the announcers dare to say anything against the refs most of the time no matter how ridicolous the call /non-call is. There has to happen something ridicolous on an all time level of craziness like when that one ref gave Duncan a tech for just laughing while sitting on the bench. And I swear this ref wouldn't have faced any consequences if he did that sh*t against a player who wasn't top 5 in the league and without several MVPs.
Stop blaming the refs. The Lynx choked in game 3 and let Ionescu hit the game winning 3. They also choked in game 5 letting the Liberty get momentum in the third quarter and they choked big time in OT.
@@gregorywilliams8236 WNBA officiating is worse. And this is from the Mavs fan who lived through D Wade get on the foul line for people looking at him wrongly in the 06 Finals. NBA officiating is slightly better than the outright game rigging in the early 2000s. It's still pretty bad, but there is at least some consistency. However, WNBA officials have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They don't know any rules themselves and just act like they do. It's if they just hired a bunch of homeless dudes to officiate their low budget games.
Stewart traveled numerous times with no calls and wasn't fouled. Collier shot no free throws in 44 minutes. All of this cost the Lynx the championship because they would've won the game in regulation otherwise.
Lynx players in the 3rd quarter (which is when the refs started helping the Liberty with blatantly uneven officiating) were called for travelling twice, so it is not like refs were not calling travelling either, just not against Liberty players. There are some games where a large free throw disparity is correct, and those come from either two things: when one team is a lot more physical on defense than the other team, or one team crashed the paint and gets challenged a lot more than the other team. In this game, neither of these applied, both team crashed the paint about the same, and the Liberty were more physical on defense than the Lynx, so the free throws should have been close, with more often than not the Lynx taking more free throws than the Liberty. That is why the free throw disparity in this game is so egregious, the game play did not warrant the Liberty having the free throw disparity they ended up with.
Chiney is wrong. Refs calling that foul for Stewie, DID cost the Lynx a championship, because if the foul isn't called, the game is literally over and the Lynx are the champs. It's that simple.
The Lynx have nothing to be ashamed of, they played their hearts out. Nobody picked them to win this series, but they gave it their all. However, that is all people have been talking about is the bad officiating. Even Lebron James put out a tweet about the foul calls. Usually, in games such as these, the best referees usually work. They need to do something about this atrocious display of the referees.
Anyone trying to argue that that call didn’t ultimately loose the game for the Lynx, is delusional. It was the foul to tie the game with FTs and take it to OT. 😂
Ok… Let’s forget about the foul, it was also a massive TRAVEL. Lmfao. Ball should’ve been turned over, and the ball possession for the Lynx. That’s game over, and championship for Minnesota. 😭😭😭
The Lynx lost because of 16 TOs (5 in OT), only 4 offensive rebounds, and their best player only had one FGA in OT. Refs made bad calls this game just like every other game. If the WNBA wanted to rig things, the Fever and CC would have been in the finals.
After that ridiculous call was upheld I guarantee the Lynx no longer had any fight left in them. The commissioner was wearing a dress of the NYC skyline. There was NO WAY they were going to let the Lynx win that game.
That’s dumb logic. Saying they shouldn’t have let it get to game 5 is absolute stupidity. Fact is they were in that game 5 and got robbed by a bs “illegal defensive position” call with 5 seconds left?!? Unreal
@@armandoclark5395it's like saying the ref called stupid flag that gave the team first down instead of turnover and then the team ends up scoring TD but the other team still had a chance to stop them but they didn't
Dang. They RIGGING over in the wnba, too.😂 David Stern once said, if he had his choice on which two teams he wants to see in the finals, it be LAKERS VS LAKERS😂😂😂 He didn't even bother pleading the fifth, he just blatantly said, I WANT THE BIG MARKETS TO WIN. The 2004 Pistons winning a championship was an accident😂😂😂 David Stern was PISSED OFF
Everyone is forgetting that the WNBA commissioner was literally wearing a NY skyline dress the whole night, SHES FROM NY. Not to Mention Brondello was straight up telling her plays to embellish during the timeout at the end
And is that not her right??!!! She could've worn a Lynx Jersey if she wanted to. It still doesn't take away from fact that you, the Lynx coach, their players & the rest of the Lynx fans ARE SORE LOSERS!! LOL😂😂😂
I’m not typically a Stephen A fan and as a Lynx fan, this was actually a really good take - I liked and agreed with the commentary from the group as a whole
The refs were doing the league's bidding. Fire the refs and the league will just bring more in that will do exactly as they're told. You guys with these rogue ref theories are fools.
@@sirtwentythree Um no, what's actually going on is that the WNBA is OPERATING AT A LOSS. How do you hire good refs when you DON'T HAVE MONEY??? They're not even doing all they can to promote the one player that non-WNBA fans even show any remote interest in.
Brought up on charges federally...and the league...if it's entertainment..it's WWE ..make them pledge a sporting event like Olympics and car racing ect
Steven S. Collier shot 23 shots and didn't get to shoot a Free Throw the whole game. Man get the Fu out of here. Collier did things in the playoffs that have never been done. Most points ever. Most blocks ever. All everyone in the media talks about is how Clark got screwed. Well Ny got there first tainted title. Jones got MVP. It's a crime.
That turnover looked suspect as f, then the other girl gave up on the play when she had more than enough opportunity to foul her on the layup. Not to mention that horrible foul call everyone is talking about.
Lynx won despite all the bad calls against them. If you watch the whole press conference Reeve references 3 games where the officiating was poor. She specifically mentioned that Brondello had to talk about it too
If the Liberty can find a way to get CC while keeping their three core players, then the WNBA will explode in popularity, and NY Liberty games will be the hottest tickets in sports.
Let's not act like this was a 1 game series, as if games 1-4 didn't happened. As if the refs didn't give calls or no calls that benefited the Lynx as well.
Steven A. just so proud about the Liberty championship through the expense of corrup officiating. Cmon WNBA and same with NBA officiating stop doing that just because it's NY or in hostile environment or whatnot, let them play good and fair basketball. Don't tarnished the meaning of the game of basketball by your own corrupt officiating minds OMG cut it man play fair
The officiating for the entire series laid an egg. But let’s face it, these are officials who would never have qualified to work in the NBA or even in men’s college basketball.
People are delusional, that was a foul I dnt know how many times I watch Minn grab throw shoulders into people slap hands away and no calls were made. Those are fouls. Collier got soooooo many calls like foh! NY Stand and yes The Knicks need a chip and let's be clear, this game was suppose to be done in MINN. So spare me the sadness and lies. The real reason they lost was they were dog tired and no depth
the Ticks will never win a chip as long as Dolan is the owner --- trading for a dollar store All-Star like FAT is a move that non-chip caliber organizations make
Brianna Stewart and Sabrina are like James harden and Paul George in the playoffs. They shrink in the big moment. They got lucky by being saved by the refs.
WNBA had a huge chance to carry momentum into 2025 but all the drama about Clark and the atrocious calls in the final game are going to set them back. I'm done with this BS and I could easily have become a fan.
The 2024 #WNBA Finals attendance breakdown: Game 1 - 17,732 Game 2 - 18,040 Game 3 - 19,521 (new Lynx record) Game 4 - 19,210 Game 5 - 18,090 (new Liberty record) That makes average attendance 18,518 - a new record for a WNBA Finals series. Per Front Office Sports, 2024 WNBA Finals Game 2 grabbed 1.34 million viewers on Sunday, becoming the second most-watched WNBA Finals game on ESPN since the 1998 Finals Game 3 between Houston Comets and Phoenix Mercury. It is a huge feat considering that the game was aired alongside the NFL’s marquee affairs. Meanwhile, the 2024 WNBA Finals Game 3 took things up a notch as it set yet another record with 1.39 million viewers. 🤫
SAS: "You know there's going to be bad, lop-sided officiating, so you should know how to deal with it." Sometimes he just takes the stupidest positions for the drama.
This honestly to me felt like a step beyond incompetent officiating. It felt like the league was trying to generate excitement by having a NY team in a season where there finally is real excitement around the WNBA. But hard to call it anything but a black mark on the league.
The Lynx chose to play overly physical defense for 5 games and this was one possible outcome. They didn't complain after the BS foul call that gave Carleton the two free throws that sealed their game four win... NY Liberty won this series because they had a better team...
True but she still “walked” to the foul call. If they was gonna let her travel like that let her get the contact without a foul then like they let her get away with two things at once
@@Melanated1ne Stop with the excuses and accept that the Liberty were a better overall team. Stewart/Ionescu were combined 5-44 (11%) for 18 pts and the Lynx could not win Game 5??? The BIG difference was the bench because the Liberty actually had players waiting on their chance to contribute. The Liberty's played 41 mins for 15 pts, 9 rebs between 3 players. The Lynx's could've stayed in Minnesota because they were non existent even tho they played FOUR off the bench for a woeful 21 total minutes. Ionescu Games 3-5 shooting: 11-46 (24%). Stewart Games 4 & 5 shooting: 9-36 (25%). Yet the Lynx could not close it out??? Game 4 FTs: Liberty 9-9, Lynx 15-20. Reeve said nothing about the amount of FTs her team got including the last two that clinched the victory. All FTs taken in the 5 games: Liberty 67-76 (85%). Lynx 52-62 (85%). Liberty committed 73 fouls to Lynx's 79 because the Lynx played overly physical specially at the 3-point line. Their whole game plan was to keep the Liberty from getting hot from beyond threes which is why they shot 45-128 (35%) in 5 games. Outside of Collier and McBride, TWO BALLERS, the rest of the team was not up to par. Courtney Williams had FOUR points and 5 TOs in 30 minutes in a clinching Game 5!!!
imo the biggest take away here is that many fans are not going to want to come back and watch next year due to this outcome. i thought the Liberty would 3-0 the Lynx. Sabrina and Stewart were both considered generational talents at one point. basically WNBA Kobe and Shaq and they can barley scrape a championship from their role players after 3 tries. its just sad to see when I expected them to ball out and show how great they supposedly are.
Imagine anyone, anywhere, talking to people the way Stephen A does, and not getting punched eventually. His default volume, is scream. Wow. Apparently for Stephen the correctness of your opinion is directly correlated to the decibel level of delivery.
She traveled before the alleged foul even happened.
A lot of people are misinformed because they've never played the game. Breanna Stewart did not travel. She fumbled the ball as it was passed to her, and when she finally gained possession of the ball, she gathered herself and jump stopped toward the elbow, where she was hit on the wrist as she trying to tie the game, which is why her shot missed so badly. The ESPN commentators didn't even mention a travel because they knew that she didn't do it.
@@RobbieStacks90are you blind?
@@RobbieStacks90 You stewie griffins adopted houseboi or something? Lolol
100% traveled I saw it in real time and wondered why it wasn’t called
ESPN commentators means nothing. There still was no foul.
Stewie took off running without dribbling before the “foul”
I kept wait for someone to atleast bring that up
True. But Courtney Williams had an over and back that wasn’t called. The bottom line is the Lynx played worse than the Liberty.
Nobody will call a Travel in Game 5 at the end 🎉
@@swenpintat7331but they call a shooting foul? Your logic flawed
She was actually bumped but hey…
I’m a liberty fan and I’ll tell you that call was atrocious as it can get stewie just chucked that sh** up there 😭
Probably want to find a new team
@@BOSSenjoyerlol can’t do that to loyal been a fan of them since they existed but I did not want a championship in that way the series was great up until that non sense
Well The Refs Was Bad All Year
She was hit on the wrist. Stewie is one of the greatest players of all-time. She's not going to miss a shot that badly on her own.
@@RobbieStacks90 She missed the two free throws so they had to give her 2 more on a fraudulent call that was actually a travel
She traveled 2 stops on the subway before she supposedly got fouled
Stewie traveling 3 miles for the win is Krazy. Congratulations
It didn’t give them the win, it just sent them into OT. Minny had 5 more minutes to win the game and they choked.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@naiobemayo7158they wouldnt have to choke for five if it was called right
ikr, she traveled to the moon and back, lol
Hi HATER 👋
she traveled before the foul and the foul wasn’t even a foul. The sad part is that the lynx challenged it abd the officials still went with robbing the lynx. She put her hands straight up standing still and the contact was initiated by breanna.
They should of called travel instead that’s what really cost Lynx the chip
Exactly
Nah game 4
No what cost them the loss was they didn't do it in overtime
Unfortunately even the nba doesn’t allow this but hopefully it is a rule that gets changed
Nobody will call a Travel ! Did u Ever Watch the NBA ?🎉
Minnesota got robbed out of this championship. Not only that was clearly not a foul whatsoever, Stewart clearly traveled on the play. I'm a Liberty fan but I'll be the first one to tell you that we got bailed out. That was not a foul and the fact that Liberty shot 25 free throws compared to Minnesota's 7 just shows even more than the refs tried to help New York to win. Bruh the Liberty shot 30% from the field in that game. What team is winning a game while shooting 30%, not one. Minnesota clearly got robbed
What about game 1 and game 4 though
you would have a point if this was the only case, however the refs have not been good this whole series
You know something - it's really hard to be a Minnesota sports fan.
@arch6384 We ain't talking about game 1 and 4 idiot, besides in game 1, New York just blew a big time lead and lost the game in OT
Robbed ?? There's never 1 play that makes you lose. Its an accumulation .
The WNBA has a huge officiating problem because the refs are incompetent, inconsistent, and corrupt. And they've been rigging games all season. Cathy Englebert must hire skilled and competent referees with integrity for next season.
I agree. Don't even think about fouling CC.
They don’t see it as a problem. Look across the leagues NBA, NFL same issue
You are describing the refs in the NBA and NHL as well
Not just the WNBA, the NBA, also they predict who won and who lost for the most part
Cathy Englebert won't hire squat. She is the ROOT of the problem.
Everybody saying the fix was in for NY as if the Lynx didn't get a huge break in game 4 lmao.
Except sab really fouled BC. You can’t go under a player and hook them from the back. The foul that Stewie got was nonexistent…Especially since NY was able to be super aggressive the entire game and we got called for ticky tac fouls.
@@neshaaddison3343thank you
SAS is full of it. Anyone that watched that game and the 4th quarter and overtime will tell you that the calls were going the Liberty’s way.
Same as game 4 calls going for the lynx
@@hybrid1339 I found the New Yorker guys 😂
Did you even listen to what he said?
Let's go 🗽
Hey do you want some cheese with your whine lol go ny go ny go
I am not going to lie. LeBron James and Coach Cheryl Reeve were right about that controversial call. Like LeBron said, let the players dictate the game.
LeBald should be the last person to comment on officiating issues --- his stats AND career has lasted this long in part BECAUSE of soft fouls called on him his entire career
@@thebest_everrrrrrrrrrrryou sound stupid. LeBron don’t even get half the calls yall claim he does
@@JaySwavo cough cap cough cap
@@JumpMan69It's facts that LeBron does not get a lot of the foul calls he deserves when he drives to the basket. It's actually something that is known and said for years around the league.
@thebest_everrrrrrrrrrrr Let me guess, you think Jorbum or Kobrick is the GOAT or greater than LeBron. Kobaldy and Jorbaldy got more soft and fake free throws than LeGOAT. They were the free throw merchants who hogged the ball. Jorbaldy knows that and hasn't ever dared to talk about Basketball recently cuz he knows he played in plumbers era.😂😂😂
Refs every time going mess up a good game until they hold accountable
Straight up
It’s just like cops lol. You have to go after their families for anything to come of it.
@@jasonhoppe781 Even cops are less protected than refs I'm deadass serious. Refs can do ANYTHING on the court and the league won't do sh*t. Not even the announcers dare to say anything against the refs most of the time no matter how ridicolous the call /non-call is. There has to happen something ridicolous on an all time level of craziness like when that one ref gave Duncan a tech for just laughing while sitting on the bench. And I swear this ref wouldn't have faced any consequences if he did that sh*t against a player who wasn't top 5 in the league and without several MVPs.
How are we gonna do that? Suspend them? They need enough money so that officiating is their only job. Could just be lack of training and practice.
The thing is, they reviewed the call and still decided to call it as a foul. That's outrageous.
Nobody but Sandy
Ref's would not have made it out the bldg., if they overturned that call.
I'm not even a Lynx fan (or a Liberty hater), but the fix was IN here........
100% I never seen it up close like that but that was rigged....
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A fix for a wnba game?🤣
Woke wins again. Smh
@@Steve-kr5efwoke?😂
The Liberty players must be delusional if they really believe that they legitimately won that game instead of being given the game by the referees.
Stop blaming the refs. The Lynx choked in game 3 and let Ionescu hit the game winning 3. They also choked in game 5 letting the Liberty get momentum in the third quarter and they choked big time in OT.
@@dark920let's stay with game 5 the refs got the liberty back into the game to begin with.
All of a sudden, we're all upset about these refs, but no one said anything when Clark was getting no calls and butchered on the court 🏀
WNBA has the worst officiating!
Now this is a fact! Cathy needs to get this 💩 together!
I don't know if they are worse than the NBA officials
@@gregorywilliams8236 unfortunately they are which is insane to even say
@@gregorywilliams8236 WNBA officiating is worse. And this is from the Mavs fan who lived through D Wade get on the foul line for people looking at him wrongly in the 06 Finals.
NBA officiating is slightly better than the outright game rigging in the early 2000s. It's still pretty bad, but there is at least some consistency.
However, WNBA officials have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They don't know any rules themselves and just act like they do. It's if they just hired a bunch of homeless dudes to officiate their low budget games.
Wnba players travel 20 times a game. Is never called.
Shooting 1-19 is crazy work in a elimination game
Let’s be honest, neither Shannon or Stephen A was watching this game live.
Facts it’s actually insulting to the ladies and folks that was actually watching
I'm definitely positive they watched it. Shannon watches women's basketball and Stephen A is a New Yorker
@@Esco-lq4rbI'm definitely positive both of them would rather watch NFL or MLB.
Lets be honest nobody was watching this game lol
You just talking FN
That one call ruined a great season
Why is no one talking about the travel 😭😭😭
It didn’t effect the game
It was a ridiculously missed call!?? Fkn the "foul"😂😂😂😂@@billeh60
Bc they got a NY agenda
@@billeh60it did she walked into the foul 😂
@@billeh60it didn’t effect the game? It should have been a turnover and they would have lost
Collier didn’t shoot one free throw the whole game. She had over 21 shot attempts. Rigged 100%.
Collier posted pics of the game, one was her getting mauled, no foul called
Got smacked by the girl with the braids on NY but a NO PHANTOM FOUL call was given to NY and then they reviewed it AND STILL gave NY the benefit.
Stewart traveled numerous times with no calls and wasn't fouled. Collier shot no free throws in 44 minutes. All of this cost the Lynx the championship because they would've won the game in regulation otherwise.
Lynx players in the 3rd quarter (which is when the refs started helping the Liberty with blatantly uneven officiating) were called for travelling twice, so it is not like refs were not calling travelling either, just not against Liberty players.
There are some games where a large free throw disparity is correct, and those come from either two things: when one team is a lot more physical on defense than the other team, or one team crashed the paint and gets challenged a lot more than the other team. In this game, neither of these applied, both team crashed the paint about the same, and the Liberty were more physical on defense than the Lynx, so the free throws should have been close, with more often than not the Lynx taking more free throws than the Liberty. That is why the free throw disparity in this game is so egregious, the game play did not warrant the Liberty having the free throw disparity they ended up with.
Chiney is wrong. Refs calling that foul for Stewie, DID cost the Lynx a championship, because if the foul isn't called, the game is literally over and the Lynx are the champs. It's that simple.
So what about the 3rd Q the lynx was up also lynx was up 15 at home and lost but are blaming the refs
@@Its_Shaqexactly I wanted the Minnesota to win but they did that
Facts!
@Its_Shaq that last call was game defining.
Yeah but it wasn’t the reason they lost. They lost because they scored 2 points in overtime and had 5 turnovers
The Lynx have nothing to be ashamed of, they played their hearts out. Nobody picked them to win this series, but they gave it their all. However, that is all people have been talking about is the bad officiating. Even Lebron James put out a tweet about the foul calls. Usually, in games such as these, the best referees usually work. They need to do something about this atrocious display of the referees.
100% I never seen it up close like that but that was rigged....
MN has 4 championships and they really wanted to give NY one. This should have been the Lynx 5th chip!!
Corrupt WNBA 😂
Lynx will return next season even better an more hungry to win!!
Maybe next time
Both squads barely played good enough to win anyway
6th chip. 2016 wnba was rigged also for sparks.
After Congress looks into the corruption in this game...after the election)...2024 wont have a championship...new commissioner/referee union ect
Anyone trying to argue that that call didn’t ultimately loose the game for the Lynx, is delusional. It was the foul to tie the game with FTs and take it to OT. 😂
It’s ironic you Lynx fans conveniently leave out that game 4 was stole from the LIberty with 2 Seconds left on the clock smh 🤦😭
What about the foul called on new in game 4 ending that was a foul
Ok…
Let’s forget about the foul, it was also a massive TRAVEL. Lmfao. Ball should’ve been turned over, and the ball possession for the Lynx. That’s game over, and championship for Minnesota. 😭😭😭
@@psgraya2 True, I honestly dont see how that was missed. I was a huge travel. Two bad calls cost them the game. I dont care what happend in OT.
Literally after Stewie just missed 2 fts 😂
The Lynx lost because of 16 TOs (5 in OT), only 4 offensive rebounds, and their best player only had one FGA in OT. Refs made bad calls this game just like every other game. If the WNBA wanted to rig things, the Fever and CC would have been in the finals.
Congrats to the referees for controlling the game from the tip off and ensuring a Liberty victory.
Lebron should be the last mf to say that
King of flop 😅😅
@@adriandavidson4450 takes one to know one. he kinda told on himself, on the low
When he get fouled and his team getting eliminated he finna cryyyy ahhhh riverrrrrr keep that energy
i was just about to post that. You so right
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💡The Lynx possessions in overtime📉
▪️Williams missed jumper
▪️Williams missed layup
▪️McBride turnover
▪️Shot clock violation
▪️Hiedeman turnover
▪️Hiedeman turnover
▪️Williams turnover
▪️Carleton missed jumper
▪️Carleton turnover
But the point is it shouldn’t have gone to overtime. Stewie traveled and wasn’t fouled.
After that ridiculous call was upheld I guarantee the Lynx no longer had any fight left in them. The commissioner was wearing a dress of the NYC skyline. There was NO WAY they were going to let the Lynx win that game.
💯💯they gotta stop crying 😭😂
Minnesota: it was everyone's fault but our own
@@kengy1991 an imaginary foul, shame on NY
Not only did she not get fouled, she traveled as soon as she caught the ball.
2:24
Steven A actually makes a good point. Lynx shouldn't have let it get to game 5 but tbh that game 3 was lost because of officiating as well ijs
That's what I keep saying, if ppl mad at the officiating in game 5 then they should be mad at the officiating in game 4 as well
They are @@hybrid1339
Cry a river
That’s dumb logic. Saying they shouldn’t have let it get to game 5 is absolute stupidity. Fact is they were in that game 5 and got robbed by a bs “illegal defensive position” call with 5 seconds left?!? Unreal
@@armandoclark5395it's like saying the ref called stupid flag that gave the team first down instead of turnover and then the team ends up scoring TD but the other team still had a chance to stop them but they didn't
Dang. They RIGGING over in the wnba, too.😂
David Stern once said, if he had his choice on which two teams he wants to see in the finals, it be LAKERS VS LAKERS😂😂😂
He didn't even bother pleading the fifth, he just blatantly said, I WANT THE BIG MARKETS TO WIN.
The 2004 Pistons winning a championship was an accident😂😂😂 David Stern was PISSED OFF
Everyone is forgetting that the WNBA commissioner was literally wearing a NY skyline dress the whole night, SHES FROM NY. Not to Mention Brondello was straight up telling her plays to embellish during the timeout at the end
I heard that in the huddle (really ) What is this Hollywood
And espn mute the sound immediately after that 😂
And is that not her right??!!! She could've worn a Lynx Jersey if she wanted to. It still doesn't take away from fact that you, the Lynx coach, their players & the rest of the Lynx fans ARE SORE LOSERS!! LOL😂😂😂
Woooowww!!!! I didn't realize that!!!😮😮
@@stephbass1311suspicious lol
The truth is if officiating is good the liberty is WNBA champ in 4 games
That foul call in the end was bs! Minnesota definitely should've won
They also should’ve won game 3 but let the liberty win blame the lynx
I’m not typically a Stephen A fan and as a Lynx fan, this was actually a really good take - I liked and agreed with the commentary from the group as a whole
The referee literally steal the game from Minnesota and give it to New York 100%. It was disgusting and all those referees should be fired.
the literally *stole* (past tense; the game happened last night) the game from Minnesota
The refs were doing the league's bidding. Fire the refs and the league will just bring more in that will do exactly as they're told. You guys with these rogue ref theories are fools.
@@sirtwentythree Um no, what's actually going on is that the WNBA is OPERATING AT A LOSS. How do you hire good refs when you DON'T HAVE MONEY??? They're not even doing all they can to promote the one player that non-WNBA fans even show any remote interest in.
Brought up on charges federally...and the league...if it's entertainment..it's WWE ..make them pledge a sporting event like Olympics and car racing ect
Steven S. Collier shot 23 shots and didn't get to shoot a Free Throw the whole game. Man get the Fu out of here. Collier did things in the playoffs that have never been done. Most points ever. Most blocks ever. All everyone in the media talks about is how Clark got screwed. Well Ny got there first tainted title. Jones got MVP. It's a crime.
Whoever put a Carefree Curl in Stephen Smiths tips should be brought up on criminal charges😂
Bron Bron be the main one complaining about getting a foul the audacity of him 🤣🤣
IDC, Napheesa Collier is the wnba mvp, and the lynx are the 2024 wnba champions.
Yeap
I feel you but COPE
Cap not over Aja
@@Its_Shaq When's the last time an mvp wasn't in the finals in the nba/wnba?.....ill wait
@@davidfam2147 ...then we both cope.... if your sincere
Clearly, neither men watched game 4. Not even the last 2 minutes.
The foul calls allowed the Liberty to comeback
And Minnesota’s inability to score and create separation.
She pushed, she travelled, she wasn't fouled.
Told ya folks, Stephen A Smith ain’t a real New Yorker. He’s a front runner.
Aren't all New Yorkers frontrunner
Front running Jango.
😂
Like your mom lol. Loser. Ya the front runner loser. Get a clue
She traveled! No foul!
That turnover looked suspect as f, then the other girl gave up on the play when she had more than enough opportunity to foul her on the layup. Not to mention that horrible foul call everyone is talking about.
It wasn’t a foul. And, she took 4 steps, before dribbling, to even get to the shot that led to the terrible foul call.
funny how nobody cried about how game 4 was officiated
Lynx won despite all the bad calls against them. If you watch the whole press conference Reeve references 3 games where the officiating was poor. She specifically mentioned that Brondello had to talk about it too
Nobody but Sandy
The Lynx panicked on the offensive end. Turnovers cost them. TURNOVERS. The foul…no foul, but that ain’t the reason the Liberty schooled them in OT.
Man mcnutt was right. They don’t talk about the WNBa unless CC or controversy is in it
did you see how horrendous the game was? they’re lucky they’re even spoke about at all
If the Liberty can find a way to get CC while keeping their three core players, then the WNBA will explode in popularity, and NY Liberty games will be the hottest tickets in sports.
They didn’t even crack 70 points in the championship
clinching game of course nobody talks about it.
@@patrick05MorganWNBA 40 mins not 48 like NBA
@@louislittleton5655that’s 3rd quarter points in nba that’s 36 min and that’s really too low
This was a terrible game,terrible referees,terrible shooting but to be real this game needed overtime
Big fat asterisk on that trophy 🏆*
You can put an asterisk on a ton of trophies if you really want to.
Nope. Game 4, OT, where was the Lynx bench. We good over here.
STEWIE... TRAVELED IN REAL-TIME🏃♀🤣💯
With passport and everything 😂😂
Let's not act like this was a 1 game series, as if games 1-4 didn't happened.
As if the refs didn't give calls or no calls that benefited the Lynx as well.
There it is!!!!!
Game 4 maybe but the rest the Liberty 🗽 had the refs in their pocket including game 1 where they choked. The Liberty are the new Black Sox lol 😂
Facts, refs won MN game 4
@@erikromatowski9342refs won liberty game 2
They not talking bout that though
“Bonkers” lol that sip of champagne was flimsy too. She was nervous cuz she knew she got away with one
I wonder what the probability of the away team winning in OT is. Once the game went to OT I knew the Lynx were gonna lose
Steven A. just so proud about the Liberty championship through the expense of corrup officiating. Cmon WNBA and same with NBA officiating stop doing that just because it's NY or in hostile environment or whatnot, let them play good and fair basketball. Don't tarnished the meaning of the game of basketball by your own corrupt officiating minds OMG cut it man play fair
Stewart clearly traveled before that “foul” these refs are a joke
The officiating for the entire series laid an egg. But let’s face it, these are officials who would never have qualified to work in the NBA or even in men’s college basketball.
As a native NYer to have a basketball championship here in my life time is finally great to have! Now we need the Knicks to do the same.
Not gonna happen with the KAT trade. Losing Dante with the chemistry they had last season is a big loss. KAT too soft and injury prone
Bro if Devincenzo is the deciding factor on whether the Knicks win a championship or not then they were never contenders to begin with lol.
People are delusional, that was a foul I dnt know how many times I watch Minn grab throw shoulders into people slap hands away and no calls were made. Those are fouls. Collier got soooooo many calls like foh! NY Stand and yes The Knicks need a chip and let's be clear, this game was suppose to be done in MINN. So spare me the sadness and lies. The real reason they lost was they were dog tired and no depth
the Ticks will never win a chip as long as Dolan is the owner --- trading for a dollar store All-Star like FAT is a move that non-chip caliber organizations make
@@Draxthedudexnot a foul on any planet.
Lmao Lebron can’t be serious. That man get more foul calls than ANYBODY!! Especially down the stretch of the game
Do you wanna know what’s funny? I felt like I always knew the answer, but my heart was still pounding like crazy.
It was an egregious call that cost the Lynx a championship
Brianna Stewart and Sabrina are like James harden and Paul George in the playoffs. They shrink in the big moment. They got lucky by being saved by the refs.
They don’t compare
As if Sabrina didn't show up in the moment and hit a dagger 3 to win one of the games.
You know this is Stewie's third championship right??
As if Stewart didn't hit clutch free throws to tie the game.
@@thesix4176As she wasn’t shooting 30% before that 😂. She was a brick merchant
WNBA had a huge chance to carry momentum into 2025 but all the drama about Clark and the atrocious calls in the final game are going to set them back. I'm done with this BS and I could easily have become a fan.
All 20 people in nyc are happy
@JEREMIAHJAMESON-l4p uhh, good one?😂 relax simp they’re not gonna do you🥱🥱
The 2024 #WNBA Finals attendance breakdown: Game 1 - 17,732 Game 2 - 18,040 Game 3 - 19,521 (new Lynx record) Game 4 - 19,210 Game 5 - 18,090 (new Liberty record) That makes average attendance 18,518 - a new record for a WNBA Finals series.
Per Front Office Sports, 2024 WNBA Finals Game 2 grabbed 1.34 million viewers on Sunday, becoming the second most-watched WNBA Finals game on ESPN since the 1998 Finals Game 3 between Houston Comets and Phoenix Mercury.
It is a huge feat considering that the game was aired alongside the NFL’s marquee affairs. Meanwhile, the 2024 WNBA Finals Game 3 took things up a notch as it set yet another record with 1.39 million viewers. 🤫
@JEREMIAHJAMESON-l4pAwww the simp to the rescue😂😂🥱 Whatever you say Jeremiah lmfaoo
@JEREMIAHJAMESON-l4p hundreds? 18,000
Most are sub-humans. It's sad.
They wanted to give Stew and the Liberty the championship… to build the WNBA…
I feel like if it was a foul
I've seen wayyy more contact in these games that don't get called
That’s the disappointing part. You know when it’s close like that the refs will make it go to ot
It's a beautiful morning and year for New York Liberty!
Steven's worst take (of many) yet!
A rivalry has been born folks!
Can we please give Molly spot to Shae or at least they split it 50/50 shae was much better
SAS: "You know there's going to be bad, lop-sided officiating, so you should know how to deal with it." Sometimes he just takes the stupidest positions for the drama.
That last 10-15 min, they were allowed to push the Lynx around like rag dolls.
Manquel Jones was out there TACKLING hoes. Took Smith back out and what happened?!
NOTHIN
Felt like game 4 was skewed in Minnesota's direction.
Well Minnesota Don't Blow The Lead
Bingo!!!!
Well the refs lead the comeback with 25 free throws lmao 25-8 for the game lol 😂 Refs true MVP’s
PLEASE the end 😭😭. the way yall cut him off LMAO
I agree that was not a foul
Lol. I Love It! Salute to SAS
That box out on Sabrina at the end of game 4 wasn’t a foul either but I didn’t see her complaining about that because it won her team that game
You can’t box somebody out while they are tipping the ball in
@@kashnashlifestyle that’s a rebounding situation the ball is in nobody’s possession
@@jamiethomas5849 doesn’t matter once a player is in the air , you can’t tackle them out the air
This honestly to me felt like a step beyond incompetent officiating. It felt like the league was trying to generate excitement by having a NY team in a season where there finally is real excitement around the WNBA. But hard to call it anything but a black mark on the league.
I guess the Liberty is the only team to win the finals despite losing the the first game of the series as a top seed
Molly being back feels like when you had a fun substitute teacher but in school then your regular teacher came back 😂
Where was the travel call? She moved her feet before she ever put the ball down
They were never going to let new York lose
25 free throws to 8 , after reviewing a clear non foul they gave her the foul, embarrassing lol they didn’t want them black girls from minn to win
Your comment doesn’t make sense. Both teams start 3 white and 2 black girls.
But what about her moonwalking prior to the foul 😂😂she did the Cupid Shuffle
The Lynx chose to play overly physical defense for 5 games and this was one possible outcome. They didn't complain after the BS foul call that gave Carleton the two free throws that sealed their game four win...
NY Liberty won this series because they had a better team...
True but she still “walked” to the foul call. If they was gonna let her travel like that let her get the contact without a foul then like they let her get away with two things at once
@@Melanated1ne Stop with the excuses and accept that the Liberty were a better overall team. Stewart/Ionescu were combined 5-44 (11%) for 18 pts and the Lynx could not win Game 5???
The BIG difference was the bench because the Liberty actually had players waiting on their chance to contribute. The Liberty's played 41 mins for 15 pts, 9 rebs between 3 players. The Lynx's could've stayed in Minnesota because they were non existent even tho they played FOUR off the bench for a woeful 21 total minutes.
Ionescu Games 3-5 shooting: 11-46 (24%). Stewart Games 4 & 5 shooting: 9-36 (25%). Yet the Lynx could not close it out???
Game 4 FTs: Liberty 9-9, Lynx 15-20. Reeve said nothing about the amount of FTs her team got including the last two that clinched the victory. All FTs taken in the 5 games: Liberty 67-76 (85%). Lynx 52-62 (85%). Liberty committed 73 fouls to Lynx's 79 because the Lynx played overly physical specially at the 3-point line. Their whole game plan was to keep the Liberty from getting hot from beyond threes which is why they shot 45-128 (35%) in 5 games.
Outside of Collier and McBride, TWO BALLERS, the rest of the team was not up to par. Courtney Williams had FOUR points and 5 TOs in 30 minutes in a clinching Game 5!!!
@@GoTPLATANOS it’s not a excuse she walked into the foul. Simple they won the game it’s over she did walk into the foul
@@Melanated1ne Oh okay cool. Were you this upset when Carleton got two BS FTs to force Game 5?
@@GoTPLATANOS not upset lol I’m not upset now ijs she walked to the foul
And you saw what happened to CC last playoff game. The freethrows difference is astounding.
Ny liberty Won Ny stand up 💯👍👏
Stand up for what 😂
Stand up for a participation trophy 🏆 lmao 🤣 What a joke!
New York Liberty are the new Black Sox’s lol 😂
Sit yo goofy self down, lol
imo the biggest take away here is that many fans are not going to want to come back and watch next year due to this outcome. i thought the Liberty would 3-0 the Lynx. Sabrina and Stewart were both considered generational talents at one point. basically WNBA Kobe and Shaq and they can barley scrape a championship from their role players after 3 tries. its just sad to see when I expected them to ball out and show how great they supposedly are.
Stephen A is a fake WNBA fan bro lol
Imagine anyone, anywhere, talking to people the way Stephen A does, and not getting punched eventually. His default volume, is scream. Wow. Apparently for Stephen the correctness of your opinion is directly correlated to the decibel level of delivery.
Stephen A. you’re from New York
So he should lie?
So am I and that foul shouldn't have been called
the refs were a problem for this whole series
If Maya Moore was playing, this would have been a sweep against the Liberty. lmao
Doesn't matter 😂😂
The best ability is avaliablity.
@@truthdr6735Maya Moore got more rings than the Liberty, the Knicks, and the Nets put together. 😂😂
Before a foul... stewie traveled! Smh