Sabrina Ionescu, wearing her warmup jacket, sat next to Jonquel Jones and Breanna Stewart on Wednesday night as they sat and watched Game 2 come to a tormenting end.
The benching wasn’t the reward for their labor over the past three quarters but the result of a rout in front of their fans as the Liberty waved the white flag entering the fourth.
The Mercury delivered a decisive 86-60 blow, which was the Liberty’s most lopsided loss of the season and second-worst playoff defeat in franchise history.
The Mercury’s success sent the first-round series back to Phoenix for a winner-takes-all Game 3 on Friday and put the reigning champions’ season on the line.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
