{"id":141240,"date":"2025-09-13T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141240\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:06:08","slug":"wnba-power-rankings-lynx-still-flexing-with-playoffs-bracket-set-aces-liberty-chasing-in-loaded-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141240\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Power Rankings: Lynx still flexing with playoffs bracket set; Aces, Liberty chasing in loaded bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Article-featuredImageImg\" alt=\"wnbapowerrankings0913.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wnbapowerrankings0913.png\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"433\" width=\"770\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Sports design<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 WNBA regular season has ended, the standings are set and the first-round playoff matchups are locked in. On Sunday, all four first-round series will get underway, and from there it&#8217;s a month-long sprint to crown a new champion. The last possible Finals date is Oct. 17.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is a look at the first-round matchups:<\/p>\n<p>And the full bracket:<\/p>\n<p>                                                                    CBS Sports<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Sunday&#8217;s quadruple header, let&#8217;s take a look at how each playoff team is trending heading into the playoffs and which ones have the best chance to lift the trophy next month. Here are CBS Sports&#8217; pre-playoff power rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports design The 2025 WNBA regular season has ended, the standings are set and the first-round playoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[4662,4655,4652,732,4657,6739,23311,49,735,48,16298,1612,2803,12200,12202,4650,3460,736,729,3457,3461,4644,4659,1611,82,630],"class_list":["post-141240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-aja-wilson","tag-aliyah-boston","tag-alyssa-thomas","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-brionna-jones","tag-brittney-griner","tag-ca","tag-caitlin-clark","tag-canada","tag-dewanna-bonner","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-indiana-fever","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-kahleah-copper","tag-kelsey-mitchell","tag-las-vegas-aces","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-phoenix-mercury","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-satou-sabally","tag-seattle-storm","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141240","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=141240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}