Overview

• Seattle won Game 2, 86-83, in Seattle to tie the first-round series after trailing by as many as 14 points.
• Skylar Diggins scored 26 points and hit the game-sealing jumper with 4.2 seconds left, while Nneka Ogwumike added 24 points and 10 rebounds.
• Rookie Dominique Malonga put Seattle ahead with an and-one at 31 seconds and, per ESPN, became the youngest player with a go-ahead or tying field goal in the final minute of a WNBA playoff game.
• The Storm closed on a 16-4 run and survived Las Vegas’ last look when Jewell Loyd’s buzzer-beating 3-point attempt missed.
• A’ja Wilson posted 21 points and 13 rebounds for her 22nd playoff double-double, tying Sylvia Fowles, as the series shifts to Game 3 on Thursday in Las Vegas for a spot in the semifinals against the Atlanta–Indiana winner.