The Aces will now face an important winter as they look to regroup for the 2025 season. Kelsey Plum, Alysha Clark and Tiffany Hayes are all unrestricted free agents, and they will need to figure out a way to improve their depth with what figures to be limited cap space.

Ionescu rebounded from a rare off game to score 22 points, and nearly a year after the Aces ended the Liberty’s dream of a championship, New York returned the favor Sunday afternoon by defeating Las Vegas 76-62 to advance to the WNBA Finals.

The conclusion of Sunday’s second half was completely different to Game 3. In Thursday’s loss, the Aces dropped 52 points in the final two quarters. The number shrunk to 24 in Game 4. The Liberty’s scramble defense was the difference, per Stewart.