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SCHAUFELE

ALONG

Los Angeles Sparks center
Candace Parker (3) cele-
brates with teammate forward
Nneka Ogwumike (30) after
their team won 85-84 in Game
1 in the WNBA basketball fi-
nals against the Minnesota
Lynx, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017,
in Minneapolis.
Associated Press

Gray’s jumper
helps Sparks

avoid collapse
in Game 1

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI
AP Basketball Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chel-
sea Gray got a sliver of
daylight and let a 14-foot
jumper fly — Game 1 of
the WNBA Finals and what
would have been a dubi-
ous piece of history for the
Los Angeles Sparks hang-
ing in the balance.
When it splashed through
there may have been a
few sighs of relief sprinkled
in among those celebra-
tory high fives.
Gray’s pull-up jumper with
2 seconds delivered an
85-84 victory on Sunday
over the Minnesota Lynx in
the kind of edge-of-your-
seat finish that no one saw
coming when the Sparks
led 28-2 in the first quarter. Schauffele wins Tour Championship, Thomas takes
“I think all athletes dream
of that moment,” Gray FedEx Cup
said. “I think you dream of
hitting that shot. ... I’m glad
it went in.”
Gray scored a career-high Justin Thomas, left, holds the trophy after winning the Fedex Cup, as he stands with Xander Schauffele who holds the trophy after
27 points and Candace winning the Tour Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, in Atlanta.
Associated Press
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