The Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart, right, and Sue Bird, shown celebrating a playoff semifinals win earlier this month, helped their team complete a sweep of the Washington Mystics in the WNBA Finals on Wednesday night.FAIRFAX, Va. – Sue Bird and Breanna Stewart fretted after the regular-season opener in which their Seattle Storm lost at home to the Phoenix Mercury.
“We thought, ‘Oh, crap, what kind of year is this going to be?'” Bird reminisced.
The answer came nearly four months later with a championship.
Stewart led the Storm to the franchise’s third WNBA title Wednesday night, scoring 30 points in a 98-82 victory over the Washington Mystics in Game 3 of the best-of-five series.
Natasha Howard added career-high 29 points and 14 rebounds for the Storm. Seattle won 26 games during the regular season – 11 more than the 2017 campaign – entered the playoffs as the No. 1 seed and swept the WNBA Finals.