BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Lynx play the Phoenix Mercury. The Lynx are 14-6 in conference games. Minnesota is 1-2 in one-possession games. The Mercury are 10-10 against Western Conference opponents.
Subtract their loss in the season finale Thursday, in which they heavily managed minutes with their playoff seed secure, and the post-Olympic Lynx went 13-1 with the WNBA’s second-best offense (108 ...