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WASHINGTON — The Washington Mystics captured the 2019 W.N.B.A. title on Thursday night, defeating the Connecticut Sun, 89-78, in Game 5 of the finals.
The win capped an extraordinary season for Elena Delle Donne, 30, the 6-foot-5 star who overcame another injury — this time, a herniated disk — to lead her team to the championship.
Delle Donne, who this season won her second Most Valuable Player Award, arrived in Washington in 2017 with a single goal in mind: winning a title. After determining that playing with the Mystics would be her best chance to do so, she had requested a trade from the Chicago Sky.