Seattle Storm wins 3rd WNBA championship

Paige Browning

September 13, 2018 / 6:39 am

caption: Seattle Storm guard Sue Bird, left, holds the championship trophy with her teammates Sami Whitcomb (center) and Alysha Clark (right) after winning Game 3 of the WNBA basketball finals, Wednesday, Sept. 18 2018, in Fairfax, Va. The Storm won 98-82.

Seattle, your basketball team just won another championship.

The Storm took the WNBA title Wednesday night with a 98-82 victory over the Washington Mystics.

A few details:

The Storm swept in three games.

Series MVP Breanna Stewart led with 30 points and eight rebounds.

Natasha Howard added 29 points and 14 rebounds.

Sixteen-year veteran Sue Bird played with a broken nose, blood flowing from under the plastic mask she wore. And she still had 10 points and 10 assists.

Bird has played on all three championship teams. The team's first two titles came in 2004 and 2010.

The Storm will celebrate back home in Seattle at 1 p.m. Sunday. Details to come.

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Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She hopped over Washington’s mountains to join KUOW, after hosting news and reporting at Spokane Public Radio since 2011. She began her start in radio while a journalism student at University of Montana, by sharing stories with KUFM. Paige was raised in the mountains and rivers around Spokane. In her spare time she cheers on the Mariners in the summer, and hopes for snow in the winter.
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