{"id":106861,"date":"2025-08-30T03:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106861\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:01:09","slug":"phoenix-mercury-clinch-2025-wnba-playoff-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/106861\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOENIX MERCURY CLINCH 2025 WNBA PLAYOFF BERTH"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX MERCURY CLINCH 2025 WNBA PLAYOFF BERTH<\/p>\n

Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 1:23 AM<\/p>\n

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PHOENIX \u2013 The Phoenix Mercury clinched a spot in the 2025 WNBA Playoffs, following a win tonight by the Atlanta Dream. It marks the franchise\u2019s 19th all-time playoff appearance, second straight and 15th in the last 17 seasons.<\/p>\n

Tickets for Round 1 go on sale on Thursday, September 4 at 1 p.m. PT at phxmerc.com\/tix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WNBA Playoffs begin on Sunday, September 14. Under the WNBA\u2019s new playoff format for 2025, the First Round will be best-of-three (1-1-1 format), the Semifinals will be best-of-five (2-2-1) and for the first time ever, the WNBA Finals will be best-of-seven (2-2-1-1-1). The WNBA Playoffs will be broadcast on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX MERCURY CLINCH 2025 WNBA PLAYOFF BERTH Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 1:23 AM PHOENIX \u2013 The Phoenix Mercury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-106861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}