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2009
2009 Seasons

The 2009 WNBA FINALS on ESPN2 were between the Phoenix Mercury and the Indiana Fever. The Phoenix Mercury, led by league MVP Diana Taurasi, won a very close series three games to two. Taurasi, who was also named the most valuable player of the 2009 finals, began her WNBA career in 2004 after leading the University of Connecticut women's basketball team to three consecutive championships. The 2009 WNBA Finals helped to increase the popularity of the league nationwide because of the quality marquee players and the close competition. The television viewership for the 2009 WNBA finals increased by seventy-three percent over the previous season.

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Seasons

2009

5. Game 5

October 9, 2009

Diana Taurasi, Cappie Pondexter, and Penny Taylor, who the team to its 2007 title- did it again in 2009, when the Mercury held off a late rally by the tenacious Indiana Fever for a 90-86 victory in the deciding Game 5. League and Finals MVP Taurasi scored 26 points, Pondexter had 24, and Taylor made two crucial free throws with 37.7 seconds left for the Mercury, who won the last two games to take the intense series 3-2.

4. Game 4

October 7, 2009

The Indiana Fever led the series 2-1 and had a chance to clinch their first title in front of an active sellout crowd with local celebrities, but the Phoenix Mercury's defense stifled the Fever in the fourth quarter. The Mercury tied the series 90-77 to force a deciding Game 5 in Phoenix.

3. Game 3

October 4, 2009

Ebony Hoffman's two big plays put the Indiana Fever one win away from their first WNBA title. She hit the jumper that gave her team a one-point lead with 57 seconds left, then blocked Tangela Smith's shot with a second remaining to help Indiana defeat Phoenix 86-85.

2. Game 2

October 1, 2009

Tamika Catchings had 19 points, 11 assists and 9 rebounds to lead the Fever over the Phoenix Mercury 93-84 in Game 2 to square the series at 1-1.

1. Game 1

September 29, 2009

Cappie Pondexter missed a game-winning tip-in at the fourth quarter buzzer, then scored 7 of her 23 points in overtime to help the Mercury beat the visiting Fever 120-116 in the highest-scoring game in WNBA history.

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