Game 1 was pure drama from start to finish. Nine ties and 12 lead changes, with three of them in the fourth quarter alone, kept everyone on the edge of their seats in the league’s first-ever seven-game Finals series. The Mercury once held a nine-point lead, but A’ja Wilson and the Aces weren’t done yet. They mounted a gutsy comeback to steal an 89-86 victory. Sure, Alyssa Thomas and the Mercury still have three shots to turn the series around, but there’s a scary trend emerging for the Mercury.

“This is the third time this season they’ve beaten Phoenix by exactly three points,” Sabreena Merchant of The Athletic said on No Offseason: The Athletic Women’s Basketball Show. “It just feels like an advantage that they’ve just been building on. And you can look at all of the chemistry that Pho

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