The WNBA’s dream season earned a dream WNBA Finals— a compelling five-game thriller, the championship going down to a decisive Sunday night contest played in front of a delirious capacity crowd in New York City. And the dream storyline came to fruition: the New York Liberty, one of the league’s inaugural franchises, clinched its first title in the 28-season history of the team via an intense, all-out, somewhat controversial 67-62 overtime victory over the Minnesota Lynx. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] A franchise that, not that long ago, was toiling in the suburbs of New York City in front a few thousand people, at best, but has ridden the surge of WNBA popularity to achieve superteam status and collect some of the most talented players on the planet, is now the 2024 WNBA champion. The Brooklyn home of the Liberty was rocking on Sunday night, in a way the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets, the other team that plays at the Barclays Center, would dream of.