The Atlanta Dream are going back to the WNBA Finals. Angel Reese scored 22 points and grabbed nine rebounds, and the Dream held off the New York Liberty 85-83 Friday night at Barclays Center to finish a three-game semifinal sweep and reach the championship round for the first time since 2013. Atlanta did it for the second straight game without Allisha Gray, its second-leading scorer, who sat out with a hand injury.
The Dream had to survive one last possession. With 17.7 seconds left and a chance to tie or take the lead, Breanna Stewart worked her way into a 5-foot jumper, and it would not fall. The miss capped a fourth quarter in which New York missed 10 of its 15 shots, including six of seven from three-point range, after the Liberty had fought back from a 12-point deficit to make a game of it.
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