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After a wonderful ring ceremony and 2017 championship celebration in front of a boisterous Target Center crowd, the Lynx lost a heartbreaker to the Los Angeles Sparks in the first game of their 2018 season on Sunday afternoon. A Chelsea Gray buzzer beater gave Los Angeles the 77-76 win, and sent the Lynx home with a bad taste in their mouths after they fought through a sloppy game and gave themselves a chance to win.

Spend any time around the Lynx and the topic of culture will inevitably come up. The Lynx are clearly a group of winners—their four championships attest to that—but there’s something else about this team that has allowed it to maintain such a remarkable consistency over the last seven years.