The triple-double queen, Alyssa Thomas, might have had a season to remember, but the final buzzer hasn’t sounded on her story. “Yeah, to win a championship, I feel like none of the records or any of it is completed without a championship,” she said. But that dream ring still feels just out of reach. Down 0-2 in the WNBA Finals, the Phoenix Mercury need nothing short of a miracle to stay alive. But if there’s one thing Alyssa Thomas has shown all season, it is that she doesn’t quit.

She led the Mercury to claw their way back against the defending champs in Round 1 and then took down the team with the best regular-season record, the Minnesota Lynx, in the semifinals. Now, she has her sights set on accomplishing the impossible: making a comeback against the Aces.

Speaking ahead of Game 3,

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