DiJonai Carrington scored 15 points off the bench, and the Minnesota Lynx beat the defending WNBA champion New York Liberty 83-71 on Sunday.

This was the first game between the teams at Barclays Center since New York won the decisive Game 5 of the WNBA Finals last fall.

Collier’s absence will be felt more prominently by fans. Sans Collier, the triple-header Finals rematch has been reduced to “how much gas do Kayla McBride and Courtney Williams have in the first-option tank.” A fun experiment nonetheless, but incomparable to the navy and seafoam fireworks of the true budding rivalry.