The Shock are loving it. Coach Laimbeer: "This one's better because of the longer road it took to get there." (But the '03 win felt pretty good at the time.)

At the Freep, Chris Silva asks if the Shock will change anything next year. Silva thinks Elaine Powell might go (no way, no day); almost everyone sees Riley as part of a trade.

Clay says the Shock are now America's team, and purists can like it or lump it: "if... you were hoping the basketball gods would hand down some kind of moral edict, it’s time to haul out that old John Wooden video... because the basketball gods apparently had more fun watching Deanna Nolan [elevate] and listening to Bill Laimbeer complain."