The refs have been horrible all season for every team so you can't tell who they wanted to win, they just to make the games competitive. The WNBA put all their focus on Aja Wilson having a dream so that's who that wanted to win, when the Aces got eliminated the WNBA just wanted a long Finals series
NBA and WNBA refs are terrible but they're there for entertainment. My Dad was a ref and I have a friend who was a ref and they both said the same thing.
NBA/WNBA refs anticipate calls meaning they anticipate contact and call the foul. Regardless if there was contact or not. And they don't like to reverse calls because they don't wanna admit to being wrong.
Regarding who the refs/league wanted to win. It's a better story for the Liberty winning their first championship than the Lynx winning their 5th.
NYC's a bigger city, one of the original teams and they were at home. It was just a better story.
Now I can't say for a fact that the refs wanted the Liberty to win, but that last in the fourth sure did look like it.
Stevie caught the ball and
but there was not travel call.
But they call a foul when a player wasn't fouled? They anticipated contact and called the foul. The was bad, but what made it worse was that they reviewed the call..
AND STILL CALLED IT A FOUL!
The Lynx were robbed. But like you eluded I believe, the Lynx had a chance in overtime to win and they couldn't get it done.
Like you said the refs were bad all season, but that call shouldn't have stood after a review and that's the problem.
The Lynx were
It's just a shitty way to end the game and the season on one of if not the WNBA's best season ever.