{"id":136471,"date":"2025-09-11T15:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136471\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:51:08","slug":"wnba-playoff-matchups-will-be-decided-on-final-day-of-regular-season-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136471\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA playoff matchups will be decided on final day of regular season \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The WNBA enters the final day of its regular season Thursday night with the eight playoff teams set, but three of the four first-round matchups are still to be determined.<\/p>\n

Minnesota, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Phoenix, New York, Golden State, Indiana and Seattle all reached the postseason. The only three seeds that are locked in ahead of Thursday night\u2019s regular-season finale are Minnesota at No. 1, Phoenix at 4 and New York at 5.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas, which has won 15 straight games, will get the second seed with a win over Los Angeles on Thursday night. A loss would put the Dream at No. 2. If the Sparks win it also would give the franchise an equal two-year record with Washington, meaning the two franchises would split their draft lottery odds. If neither team drew a top-two selection, then the Mystics would get the No. 3 pick because they had a worse record this season.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLas Vegas Aces guard Jewell Loyd (24) reacts after scoring a 3-point basket against the Chicago Sky during the second half of a WNBA basketball game Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025, in Las Vegas. Loyd scored her 6,000th career point during the game. (Steve Marcus\/Las Vegas Sun via AP)<\/p>\n

Golden State made history as the first expansion team to make the postseason in its inaugural year. The Valkyries visit the Lynx to close out the season. A win would get them the sixth seed while they\u2019d fall to the eighth seed with a loss.<\/p>\n

The Indiana Fever would earn the sixth seed with a loss by the Valkyries and the No. 7 seed with a Golden State victory. Seattle would be seventh with a loss by Golden State and eighth with a victory.<\/p>\n

All four of the playoff series begin Sunday with Game 2 of the best-of-three series shifting to the lower-seeded team\u2019s homecourt on either Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The WNBA enters the final day of its regular season Thursday night with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-136471","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\/136471","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=136471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}