Sophie Cunningham hit 6 of 9 3-pointers for a career-high 21 factors and Brianna Turner made the winning cost-free throw with much less than a 2nd to play, offering the Phoenix Mercury an 83-82 sway the New York Liberty in a first-round WNBA playoff game on Thursday night.The upstart Freedom had actually linked the video game on Betnijah Laney's long 3-pointer
with 2.7 seconds left, but the Mercury got the sphere to Turner beneath the basket on the ensuing inbounds play, compeling Sami Whitcomb to foul with 0.4 seconds remaining.
Turner's first free throw rimmed out yet she smoothly made the second, moving the fifth-seeded Mercury right into the second round. Phoenix will play one more
single-elimination game at fourth-seeded Seattle on Sunday.Sabrina Ionescu's last-second heave didn't come close for the eighth-seeded Liberty, who at 12-20 had the worst regular-season winning percent of any type of playoff team in WNBA history.Skylar Diggins-Smith led Phoenix metro with 22 factors as well as Brittney Griner had 16 points, 10 rebounds and 6 aids
. Turner had 12 factors and also nine rebounds.Laney led New York with 25 points, Natasha Howard had 16 points and also 10 rebounds, as well as Ionescu completed with 14 factors and also 11 assists.Phoenix struck 8 of its very first 10 shots to race to an 11-point lead, however by the end of the first quarter the Liberty had actually cut the deficiency to 24-23. New
York rose ahead by as several as six before leading 41-37 at the half.Cunningham kept the Mercury in the video game with 12 points in the third quarter, but they couldn't shake the Freedom.
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