New York lost Game 2 of the semifinals 101-98 in overtime at Atlanta, and Breanna Stewart says officials wrongly told her the team had no reset timeout left.
The New York Liberty are down 2-0 to the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA semifinals after a 101-98 overtime loss in Atlanta, and the final seconds are still being argued about.
Angel Reese made two free throws with four seconds left in overtime to put the Dream up three. Breanna Stewart said she asked referee Kevin Fahy whether the Liberty had a reset timeout to advance the ball. Fahy checked with crew chief Fatou Cissoko-Stephens, who said no, and Fahy relayed that to Stewart. Without the timeout, New York settled for a Stewart 3-point attempt that missed everything, and the game ended there.
After the game, Cissoko-Stephens disputed Stewart's account in a pool report, saying the remaining timeout was in fact communicated to the Liberty. That leaves two conflicting versions of what happened at the scorer's table in the moments that decided the game.
Either way, New York now faces a 2-0 deficit in the semifinal series against Atlanta, with the mechanics of that final possession likely to follow the Liberty into their next game.