Fever Blow Chance as Mercury Force Decisive Game 5

by Michelle Smith

Filed under: WNBA

This was the Indiana Fever's big chance, a golden opportunity to celebrate the franchise's first WNBA championship -- not to mention the city's first pro basketball title in some 30 years -- in front of the a sold-out arena and the city that has so heartily embraced them.

But the Fever missed their big chance -- and may well have missed their chance at the title, as well, as the visiting Phoenix Mercury dominated en route to a 90-77 win in Game 4 of the WNBA Finals Wednesday night, forcing a championship-deciding Game 5 Friday night back in Phoenix.

All Indiana had to do was win Wednesday and it would have captured the best-of-five championship series three games to one. Instead, the series is now tied 2-2 and heads back to the Mercury's homecourt in the Valley of the Sun, where the Mercury have momentum, a big home crowd and a return of the swagger that disappeared for a few days.

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