The WNBA Finals are Kahleah Copper's big breakout moment and it's been so awesome to watch

If I told you months ago that we’d have a WNBA Finals featuring Candace Parker, Courtney Vandersloot, Brittney Griner, Diana Taurasi, Skylar Diggins-Smith and Allie Quigley, you’d probably be pumped.

You’d also probably assume that one of those six names would be a shoe-in for Finals MVP by the time all was said and done. And you’d probably assume specifically it was either Parker, Taurasi or Griner — those are the biggest names in the series at this point.

Those assumptions would be completely wrong. As good as those big names have been in this one so far, none of them have quite stolen the spotlight of the series.

Instead, this has been Kahleah Copper’s WNBA Finals. And she’s showed out in every moment of it.

She led the Chicago Sky to an overwhelming 86-50 victory over the Mercury. Chicago leads the series 2-1 and is just one win away from winning its first championship in franchise history.

Copper dominated the entire way in game 3. She had 20 points at the half. The entire Mercury squad had 24.

Kahleah Copper at the half: 20 PTS

The entire Mercury team: 24 PTS

Unconscious. pic.twitter.com/f60t61vGCU

— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 16, 2021

She’s not even close to being the biggest player on the court. Yet, somehow, she absolutely dominated the paint.

.@kahleahcopper put on a SHOW last night

Kah put up 22 points in Game 3, going 6-for-10 from the field in just 24 minutes #WNBAPlayoffs presented by @YouTubeTV pic.twitter.com/7T1WQY9lHE

— WNBA (@WNBA) October 16, 2021

She just dominated. This isn’t new, though. She’s been doing this the entire series. She’s averaged 19.3 points, 6.7 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.3 assists through the Finals so far while shooting 54 percent from the field and 57 percent from deep.

That’s Finals MVP basketball right there. Not many folks would’ve called this. But…Candace Parker did. At the beginning of the season, per Just Women’s Sports.

Before the Finals started, Parker talked about how the Sky feed off Copper’s energy and how infectious it was.

“We feed off her energy, and I saw that early in training camp. I have always played against her and she was always really hard to guard, but to be able to see it up close and personal in training camp, I was like wow, she can be something really crazy and she’s already a really good player.” 

Here we are, months later, seeing it all come to fruition. It’s been pretty incredible to watch on the absolute biggest stage possible.

Kahleah Copper is a star. She has arrived. And now she’s one win away from being a WNBA champion. We’ll see if she can push the Sky over the hump one more time.

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