Stefanie Dolson said she had never experienced anything like it. She made one 3-pointer.

Then, a second.

As she shot her next three attempts, Dolson, one of the Liberty’s starters last season and now a reserve center, claimed she didn’t even know the score or what was unfolding around her at Barclays Center.

Those shots all went in against the Los Angeles Sparks, helping the Liberty complete a 14-point comeback for a 96-89 victory Thursday night to pull within a half-game of the Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA’s No. 1 seed.

The Liberty have one regular-season game left, to two for the Aces.

Dolson finished the Liberty’s eighth consecutive victory with a season-high 17 points on 6-for-7 shooting.

Breanna Stewart added 25 points, an expected contribution at this point, and Betnijah Laney chipped in with 20 points and seven assists for the Liberty (32-7).

Sabrina Ionescu hit four 3-pointers to set the WNBA single-season record, breaking Diana Taurasi’s mark of 121 from 2006.

The Liberty’s shooting star had a fitting response when Dolson joked the spotlight was new for her: “Isn’t it nice?”

“All I was thinking was I knew they were gonna pass me the ball,” Dolson said, “so I was just ready to shoot it. So yeah, I think they all knew to feed the hot hand. Every time I was open, I knew I’d get it, and I just shot it with confidence. Didn’t even think. Didn’t even know what I was doing, to be honest with you.”

The Liberty have lingered within striking distance of the Aces at the top of the WNBA standings, but they nearly slipped up Thursday.

It took Dolson, one of the Liberty’s remaining players from the pre-superteam era, to make sure the quest for the league’s No. 1 seed remained a possibility entering the final few days of the regular season.

The last time Dolson hit five or more 3-pointers in a game was 2017 when she was a fourth-year player on the Chicago Sky, en route to her second (and most recent) All-Star appearance.

Dolson was still five years from joining the Liberty. She was the centerpiece of the postseason-bound Sky, and not someone without a start and averaging fewer than 12 minutes per game, as she has in 2023. She missed seven weeks due to an ankle injury this season, too.

Dolson had connected on six 3-pointers total in 2023 entering Thursday, before she hit some of the Liberty’s most pivotal 3s of the season after the Sparks built an early lead.

“We needed all five of them to get this victory tonight,” Liberty head coach Sandy Brondello said.

Dolson’s first 3 came with 2:22 left in the third quarter, and pulled the Liberty within 69-64.

They were down by just two after the opening 10 minutes, but managed three baskets in the first five minutes of the second quarter.

They surrendered 50 points in the opening 20 minutes.

That spiraled into a massive deficit, as the Sparks shot 50 percent from the field in the first half, but the Liberty mounted their comeback in the third quarter.

Ionescu, scoreless in the first half, hit two 3-pointers to tie the league’s all-time single-season record and then sink two more 3s to pass previous record-holder Diana Taurasi and finish with 16 points.

“Diana’s one of the greatest of all time, but I always say Sabrina’s like a little Diana — just the way her game’s developing,” Brondello said.

But the attention belonged to Dolson. She was always open while on the court — the fallout of the Liberty’s plethora of offensive threats — and kept getting the ball. Early in the fourth quarter, she made another 3-pointer to cut their deficit to 74-72. Her next one gave the Liberty a temporary lead. Dolson hit two more before exiting, giving her four makes in the first 2:37 of the frame and a personal 12-4 run. The final shot handed the Liberty a lead they never relinquished.

“I can’t sit too close to her because she’s still hot,” Stewart joked as the pair strolled into the interview room.

For one night, the task typically assigned to Stewart, the MVP candidate — rescuing the Liberty with a loss looming — had been transferred to Dolson.