NEW YORK – The WNBA Finals, which saw the Minnesota Lynx win their fourth title since 2011 with a decisive Game 5 victory over the Los Angeles Sparks in one of the closest Finals in the league’s 21-year history, concluded another record-breaking season, where the WNBA achieved increases for attendance, viewership, social media and merchandise during the postseason.

For the second straight year, the WNBA teams with the best regular-season records – the top-seeded Lynx and the second-seeded Sparks – met in the Finals. The Lynx, led by All-Stars Seimone Augustus, Rebekkah Brunson, Sylvia Fowles, Maya Moore, and Lindsay Whalen, joined the Houston Comets (1997-2000) as the league’s only four-time champions. In addition, Fowles became the fifth player in WNBA history to earn regular-season MVP honors, an WNBA title and the Finals MVP award in one season joining Cynthia Cooper (1997, 1998), Lisa Leslie (2001), Diana Taurasi (2009) and Lauren Jackson (2010).

September 26, 2017 12:30pm PDT Last year, in the first test of the WNBA’s new playoff format, the league’s two best teams, the Minnesota Lynx and the Los Angeles Sparks, met in the finals. League Champion: Minnesota Lynx. Most Valuable Player: Sylvia Fowles. PPG Leader: Brittney Griner (21.9) RPG Leader: Jonquel Jones (11.9) APG Leader: Courtney Vandersloot (8.1) WS Leader: Sylvia Fowles (9.2) More league info.

  1. In what turned out to be a highly contested series, the Minnesota Lynx over came a 2-1 game deficit in order to come back to the land of lakes and be crowned 2017 WNBA World Champions. After pulling off a huge game four win at the Staple Center, the Lynx capitalized on the opportunity to play in front of their hometown fans by utilizing a.
  2. 2017 WNBA Season Summary. 2016 WNBA Season 2018 WNBA Season. League Champion: Minnesota Lynx. Most Valuable Player: Sylvia Fowles. PPG Leader: Brittney Griner (21.9) RPG Leader: Jonquel Jones (11.9) APG Leader: Courtney Vandersloot (8.1) WS Leader: Sylvia Fowles (9.2) More league info.

Wnba Champions By Year

2017 Wnba Champions

Highlights from the postseason also include:

2017 nba championship stats

2017 Nba Championship

  • ATTENDANCE: The WNBA postseason averaged 9,596 spectators per game, making it the highest-attended postseason since 2010 (10,822). This year’s postseason attendance was up double digits (+10.1%) over last season (8,719).
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  • VIEWERSHIP: The 2017 WNBA Finals on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 was the third most-watched WNBA Finals ever on ESPN networks averaging 559,000 viewers for the five-game series since the networks began exclusively televising the Finals in 2003. This year’s championship was highlighted by Game 5 of the WNBA Finals on ESPN2, which averaged 902,000 viewers (including streaming audience) to become the fifth most-watched WNBA postseason game during the networks’ 18 years of playoffs and Finals coverage.

Wnba Standings 2017

Champions

2017 Nba Champions

  • SOCIAL MEDIA: The WNBA set new records across its social media platforms during the postseason with 246 million impressions (+33.9%), 47 million video views (+109.6%) and 20 million actions (+161.2%) over last season.

2017 Nba Championship Game

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  • MERCHANDISE: The postseason garnered record sales on WNBAStore.com, an increase of 38% over last year.