Phoenix Earned 2nd WNBA Title Rightfully

Phoenix showed their pose and offensive strength down the stretch of the final game of the WNBA 2009 playoffs by holding off Indiana 94-86. Indiana fought hard until the final second but could not come back after their 10 point rally late in the fourth quarter. The Mercury's top offensive guns were on point as WNBA MVP Taurasi and Pondexter scored over 20 points a piece 26 and 24. Indiana did not have it easy as they were playing against the Mercury and a sold out crowd of 17,313 dominated by Phoenix cheering. 

Phoenix Suns captains Amare Stoudemire, Steve Nash and Grant Hill purchased the tickets in the upper bowl of US Airways Center, then gave them away, leading to a sellout crowd of 17,313.

Game Quotes

"This is what we do, we make big plays," Taurasi said, holding a towel over her head in the champagne-drenched locker room. "We have people that step up and love to live the moment. It's a great team, great team."

"Indiana's a great team," said Pondexter, who kept scoring despite taking an elbow to the right eye in the second quarter. "It just shows our resilience and how bad we really wanted to win."

"I thought we played about as well as we could play," Fever coach Lin Dunn said. "I thought there were a couple of times that we missed some shots that maybe could have helped us win a championship, but they didn't fall."