?Don?t Want the Liberty to Ever Win?: 4x Champion Expresses the Eternal Beef Taking a Stand for Aces in the WNBA Finals

After the results of Game 3, the anticipation is getting bigger and bigger. The New York Liberty fended off a significant sweep and made a comeback in Game 3. Also, Chelsea Gray’s injury in Game 3 is weighing the pressure on the Aces in their strive to win the consecutive championship title.

As for both teams, the finals championship hangs in balance, and who will understand it better than the first-ever player signed by the WNBA?

Sheryl Swoopes indicates the eternal beef between the Liberty and the Comets

Midway through the fourth quarter of Game 3, the Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gary got injured. This turned out to be a turning point in the Aceas and the Liberty’s WNBA Championship Finals journey. Gravitating on the situation, the WNBA Hall of Famer and 4-time WNBA Champion Sheryl Swoopes talks about WNBA’s past, present, and future.

While predicting the final winner in a recent discussion on Gil’s Arena?YouTube channel, Swoopes expresses her views about the New York Liberty – “there’s a lot of history there with the Comets and Liberty right you know that, so I’ve never been a Liberty fan. I just don’t want the liberty to ever win, so I need the Aces to win but I don’t know about Game 5, I really don’t know. Chelsea Gray makes that much of a difference.”

Considering Chelsea Gray’s injury in Game 3 and its impact on the Aces’s performance Swoopes says – “I mean look, I just don’t know, I’m not saying they can’t, it just got a lot tougher. That’s what I’ll say.”

The Aces were trying to make a comeback in the game, however, the fourth quarter took away that chance too.

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To date, the Houston Comets are the only team in the WNBA franchise to win 4 back-to-back championship titles.

The eternal beef shared by the Comets and the Liberty

As for the story between the Houston Comets and the New York Liberty, the Comets completed the WNBA’s inaugural session in 1997 by defeating the New York Liberty and winning the first championship of the WNBA.

In 1998, the league expanded its second season and the Comets moved from the Eastern Conference to the Western Conference. Interestingly, holding a WNBA record to date, the Comets finished at 27-3, a 0.9 winning percentage. They defeated the Phoenix Mercury in the first-ever WNBA finals.

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Further, in 1999, Sheryl Swoopes, as part of the?Big Three,?led the team and survived Teresa Weatherspoon’s half-court buzzer-beater shot in Game? 2 and won their third straight title. Then again in 2000, Swoopes was awarded the league’s MVP title, and the Comets again won over the Liberty, this time it was in two games. Winning their fourth straight title, the Comets engraved themselves as the greatest WNBA team ever assembled.

What do you think about this amazing history between the Comets and the Liberty? Tell us your thoughts in the comments.