Angie Craig: “Soon, the Minnesota Lynx will play the New York Liberty at home in Minneapolis. As some Minnesotans may remember, I made…”

“Soon, the Minnesota Lynx will play the New York Liberty at home in Minneapolis. As some Minnesotans may remember, I made a friendly wager with a New York Member of Congress last year at the beginning of the Minnesota Lynx-New York Liberty WNBA final series. That bet included that I would don a Liberty jersey and give a speech congratulating them from here on the House floor if they won the series. I would have, but I won't. Why won't I? Because the truth is that Minnesota didn't lose game five. I was there in New York. The Liberty didn't win. The WNBA gave it to them. Let's stop pretending that what happened in game five of the WNBA finals was just a bad call. It wasn't. The Minnesota Lynx clawed their way through the playoffs. They defied the odds. They outworked every team and every narrative. In the final seconds of a championship game, on the biggest stage, they didn't get outplayed. They got erased.”