Mystics outlast Fire in WNBA record-tying 4 OTs
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- Sonia Citron scored a career-high 32 points — including the go-ahead basket with 21.4 seconds left — to lift the Washington Mystics past the Portland Fire 124-123 in four overtimes on Sunday, tying the longest game in WNBA history (the other four-OT game was July 3, 2001, Washington 72, Seattle 69).
- The Washington Mystics became the first team in WNBA history to have three players score at least 27 points in the same game, with Citron (32), Michaela Onyenwere (career-high 30) and Kiki Iriafen (27) all reaching the threshold.
- Carla Leite matched Citron's 32 points to lead Portland, banking in a 25-foot 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in regulation to tie the score at 87 and force overtime.
- The four-overtime game produced a combined 247 points — the second most in a WNBA game, including playoffs — and lasted 3 hours, 35 minutes, with 21 ties and 12 lead changes.
- Entering this season, only three WNBA games had ever featured a team scoring 120 points; four such instances have now occurred this season, all within the past four days.
- Eight players logged 45-plus minutes, the most in a single WNBA game, while Washington's five wins this season in games decided by three points or fewer lead the league.
- Mystics guard Georgia Amoore exited with right knee soreness — the same knee she injured last year — and did not return.
Why it matters: This game rewrote several WNBA record categories at once — tying the longest game in league history at four overtimes, producing the first-ever trio of 27-point scorers in a single game, and registering the second-most combined points (247) ever. With four 120-point team performances in just the past four days, the WNBA is in an unprecedented scoring surge.
