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Indiana Fever team arrives ahead of WNBA playoff game against Dream
See the Indiana Fever arrive before the team takes on the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, in the Fever’s first playoff home game in 9 years.
- The crowd erupted after an Aliyah Boston basket, got louder with a Kelsey Mitchell steal and hit its highest point after a Lexie Hull 3.
- Those five points in 8.8 seconds were the decisive run of Game 2 as the Fever forced a winner-take-all game against the Dream.
- WNBA Playoffs Game 3: Fever at Dream, 7:30 p.m., Thursday
INDIANAPOLIS — It was perhaps a little premature to declare in the moment, but looking back, the Indiana Fever slammed the punctuation on their 77-60 win over Atlanta in Game 2 of their WNBA playoff series vs. the Atlanta Dream at the end of the third quarter.
Five points. Nine seconds. And a 15-point lead entering the final quarter with the Gainbridge Fieldhouse crowd going absolutely bananas.
Kelsey Mitchell initiated the sequence with about 13 seconds left, lining a pass to Aliyah Boston on the right side of the lane. Boston took one dribble as she backed down her defender, then flung a shot up and over two defenders.
Moments later, Shey Peddy reached up and got a hand on Naz Hillmon’s inbound pass, deflecting it to Mitchell on the side of the arc. Following a brief skirmish in front of the Fever bench, Mitchell pushed a pass to Boston, who swung the ball to Lexie Hull on the wing in one fluid motion.
Hull gathered, squared up to the basket and swished the 3-pointer, letting out a celebratory roar as she spun around and chest-bumped Boston.
“Can’t explain what I felt in this moment,” Caitlin Clark wrote in a quote tweet of Hull’s 3-pointer.
“That was great for us. That seriously was,” Boston said.
“Yeah,” Mitchell affirmed from the other side of the table, drawing a chuckle from her teammate and a smile from coach Stephanie White.
“Scoring the ball, then getting that tip and Lexie hitting that 3 — the energy, everyone felt it,” Boston continued. “The crowd was going crazy and we used that momentum into the fourth.”
Game 3 is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
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