Game Recap: Minnesota Lynx 94, Washington Mystics 84 (08/21/2026)
The Minnesota Lynx defeated the Washington Mystics 94-84 to win the season series 2-1. The Lynx improve to 31-7 while the Mystics fall to 21-5.
Video Transcript
Two teams on winning streaks going head-to-head.
Minnesota Lynx, the top team in the WNBA thus far, have won five straight.
Meanwhile, the Washington Mystics have won two in a row.
We pick you up in the first, and it's Olivia Miles making the scoop layup.
She then steals the in-bounds pass and scores at the rim.
Again, such a smart, cagey play there from the rookie as Minnesota up 7 to 5.
Miles drives, feeds out to the corner to Kayla McBride for the three.
McBride drills that shot.
Minnesota up by eight.
Shakira Austin gets the pass, drives all the way in for the layup on the other end.
She had 17 points, eight rebounds, six assists in the game.
Shot clock ticking.
Koda McMahon gets the ball in the corner, hits an off-balance three for the lead.
Mystics into the quarter on a nine-nothing run.
In the second, Kayla McBride inside to Natasha Howard for the bucket.
Howard had 21 points, seven rebounds, and five assists.
Howard saves the ball to Miles.
Miles just a bullet pass to Dorka Juhsz for an open layup.
There's another look as Minnesota goes to the locker rooms up by seven, 49 to 42.
We go to the third, and Mikaela Onyenwere cuts to the basket, gets the pass for an easy bucket.
She had 14 in the game.
Now shot clock ticking after a deflected pass.
Look at Sonia Citron just going to her right a bit and nails the three-pointer.
She had 11 points, five assists in the game, and now we've got a two-point game.
After a Minnesota miss three, Natasha Howard grabs the offensive rebound, kicks out to Courtney Williams for the three.
She had 13 points in the game.
Minnesota back in front by five.
In the fourth quarter, Kiki Irafit drives in transition, misses, but grabs her own shot, and eventually, just working hard, gets the bucket to fall.
She had 19 points, 13 rebounds.
Now Washington has the lead, but then the rookie got cooking.
Look at Olivia Miles, the step back three, drilling that one.
Then Miles drives left, flips the shot in, somehow banks it home.
Part of a seven-nothing run.
She had 24 points and seven assists.
Kayla McBride with the three from the wing off the pass from Williams.
Then McBride banks in the deep three off another Williams pass to seal the deal.
McBride, 19 in the game.
Minnesota has won six straight.
They take this one by 10, 94 to 84.
