(Reuters) -The New York Liberty beat the Minnesota Lynx 67-62 in overtime of a winner-take-all Game Five showdown on Sunday in Brooklyn to secure their first WNBA title one year after falling short in the championship round for the fifth time in franchise history.
Top-seeded New York got a team-high 17 points from Jonquel Jones as the Liberty denied the Lynx a record fifth title.
The Liberty, who squandered a chance to secure the title in Minnesota on Friday, were sluggish at the start of Game Five. They missed their first 16 three-point attempts and never led until late in the third quarter but did enough late on to secure the win.
In a tight game that came down to the wire, New York won the jump ball to start overtime and quickly went ahead with a Leonie Fiebich three-pointer that proved to be the game-winning basket before Nyara Sabally gave them their biggest lead of the game.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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