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Dates | October 10 – 17 | |||||||||
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MVP | Kahleah Copper (Chicago Sky) | |||||||||
Eastern finals | Chicago Sky defeated Connecticut Sun 3–1 | |||||||||
Western finals | Phoenix Mercury defeated Las Vegas Aces 3–2 | |||||||||
The 2021 WNBA Finals, officially the WNBA Finals 2021 presented by YouTube TV for sponsorship reasons, was the best-of-five championship series for the 2021 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The finals featured the fifth-seeded Phoenix Mercury facing off against the sixth-seeded Chicago Sky, a rematch of the 2014 Finals.[1] The Sky defeated the Mercury in 4 games, winning their first WNBA Championship, as well as Chicago's first professional basketball championship since 1998.