Mystics hold – Sonia Citron scored 32 points, including the go-ahead basket with 21.4 seconds left, as the Washington Mystics held off the Portland Fire 124-123 in four overtimes—tying the longest game in WNBA history.
The shot landed with a kind of certainty that can only come late in a marathon—21.4 seconds left, Sonia Citron putting Washington ahead and the Mystics somehow still finding another gear.
On Sunday, the Washington Mystics held off the Portland Fire 124-123 in four overtimes, tying the longest game in WNBA history. Citron finished with 32 points, including the basket that put her team ahead to stay with 21.4 seconds left.
Portland didn’t fold after that. Carla Leite scored 32 points and hit a 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in regulation to send the game to overtime. Leite’s late heroics erased what would have been a regulation ending and turned it into an endurance test.
Michaela Onyenwere added 30 points and Kiki Iriafen scored 27 for the Mystics. who improved to 9-9 and became the first team in league history to have three players score at least 27 points in the same game. For the Fire, Sarah Ashlee Barker scored 25 and Megan Gustafson added 20. The game featured 21 ties and 12 lead changes, stretching to 3 hours, 35 minutes in real time.
The two-team grind echoed a piece of league history: the only other four-overtime game in WNBA history came on July 3, 2001, when Washington beat Seattle 72-69.
That kind of comparison doesn’t capture the feeling of watching it unfold—especially when a game that should end in one moment keeps getting pushed back, possession by possession. In the end, Washington’s final push—and Citron’s late go-ahead basket—made the difference.
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Four overtimes?? That’s basically 2 games mashed together.
So Citron hit the game winner with 21 seconds left, but it still went to 4OT?? I don’t even get how that works. Portland should’ve just lost right there lol.
I saw somewhere it was like 4OT ties the record but I thought WNBA records already had multiple 4OT games? Maybe I’m mixing it up. Either way 3 hours 35 minutes is wild, I woulda passed out on my couch.
Idk if this is even the longest game ever like people keep saying… longest game in WNBA history sounds suspicious. But if it was 21 ties and 12 lead changes then yeah, it was just pure chaos. Seems like Portland literally just kept getting stops and scoring forever, then Washington finally lucked out late with the basket.