WNBA Finals 2022 predictions and biggest questions for Las Vegas Aces vs. Connecticut Sun

In a season in which there could have been several possibilities for the last two teams standing in the 2022 WNBA Finals, it looked as if chalk was going to win. Until suddenly, it didn't.

The No. 1 seed Las Vegas Aces and No. 2 Chicago Sky tied for the best regular-season record at 26-10 and appeared headed toward a matchup in the championship series. That is until the No. 3 seed Connecticut Sun rattled off a «what just happened?» 18-0 run to stun the Sky on Thursday and win their semifinal series.

And now, the Aces will host the Sun in the best-of-five WNBA Finals starting Sunday (3 p.m. ET, ABC) in Las Vegas.

That means one of these franchises will win the WNBA title for the first time. The matchup will pit first-year Aces head coach Becky Hammon against the Sun's Curt Miller, who was an assistant coach at Colorado State during part of Hammon's time as a player there in the 1990s.

This season's MVP, Las Vegas' A'ja Wilson, will take on last season's winner, Connecticut's Jonquel Jones. Between the teams, they also won Coach of the Year (Hammon), Defensive Player of the Year (Wilson), Most Improved Player of the Year (Aces guard Jackie Young) and Sixth Player of the Year (Suns forward Brionna Jones).

The Finals will feature the hottest shooter on the planet right now, Aces guard Chelsea Gray, and the high-powered Las Vegas offense against a Sun defense that held the Sky to 63 points twice in the semifinals, including in Thursday's close-out game.

Both the Sun and the Aces are franchises that started out somewhere else. The Aces were the Utah Starzz as an inaugural team when the WNBA launched in 1997, became the Silver Stars in San Antonio in 2003, then dropped the «Silver» and were just «Stars,» and then became the