Preview: Sunday's game marks the third time the Lynx have gone to a Game 4 in the WNBA Finals. They are 0-2, having lost to Indiana in an elimination game in 2012 and again to the Fever last season before winning the series in five games. Los Angeles, which took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series with a 92-75 victory Friday, is seeking its first WNBA title since 2002. Should the Lynx win, Game 5 would be Thursday at Target Center.
WNBA Finals Game 4 preview
October 16, 2016 at 1:13AM
![Los Angeles Sparks forward Candace Parker (3), who finished with a game-high 24 points, smiled as she watched a fourth quarter shot drop. Minnesota Lynx guard Seimone Augustus (33) was in the foreground. ] JEFF WHEELER ï jeff.wheeler@startribune.com The Minnesota Lynx lost to the Los Angeles Sparks 92-75 in Game 3 of their WNBA Finals series Friday night, October 14, 2016 at the Galen Center in Los Angeles.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/EDCS2CLPOXFBBDSFNWT2TDRIKA.jpg?&w=712)
Players to watch: Lynx F Maya Moore is averaging 20.8 points in the playoffs, but she scored only nine in Game 3 — the first time she has been held to less than 18 points this postseason — and was held to seven shots. Sparks F Nneka Ogwumike is averaging a team-high 18 points per game in the finals and has made 21 of 29 shots.
Numbers: The Lynx are shooting 21.4 percent from three-point range in the finals, well below their regular-season average (33.7). They have made only six three-pointers in the three games. … In all six games this season between the Lynx and the Sparks, the team that has led after the first quarter has won the game.
Injuries: Lynx C Janel McCarville (back) is unlikely to play.
RACHEL BLOUNT
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