The Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty will clash in what might be a WNBA Finals preview, playing throughout August and starting Sunday (3 p.m.
ET, ABC/ESPN App). This weekend's matchup at Barclays Center is the first of four games between the WNBA's top two teams. The Aces beat the Liberty 98-81 in their first meeting in Las Vegas on June 29.
They play again Aug. 17 in Las Vegas and Aug. 28 in New York — plus the Commissioner's Cup final, which is Aug. 15 in Las Vegas.
It might seem like too much of a good thing in one month. The Aces-Liberty meetings ideally would have been more spread out, but the WNBA schedule was released in November, long before the offseason moves in January and February that transformed the Liberty into the perceived top challenger for the defending champion Aces. «You're going to have to get better by watching film,» Aces guard Chelsea Gray said of the multiple matchups with the Liberty in a short time span. «With this type of scheduling, there's a lot of times when you're not going to have that much practice time.