{"id":183490,"date":"2025-10-01T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183490\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:38:10","slug":"wnba-finals-preview-what-are-the-biggest-weaknesses-in-the-aces-and-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183490\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals preview: What are the biggest weaknesses in the Aces and Mercury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u2019t Break the Fever, WNBA Officiating Under Review + Sports Betting 101Zena, Ben, and Sabreena take a dive deep into the highly anticipated Game 5 semifinals match-up between the Aces and Fever. Will A\u2019ja Wilson bring her A-game? What adjustments will the Aces make? And how can the Fever pull off the ultimate upset? Then, the crew share their thoughts on the emotional end to the Lynx\u2019s season \u2013 and the Mercury\u2019s ascendance to the Finals.  Next, following Cheryl Reeve\u2019s suspension after the Mercury-Lynx Game 3 on Friday night, Zena, Ben, and Sabreena talk about the play in question between Alyssa Thomas and Napheesa Collier \u2013 before getting into the intricacies behind freedom of movement in the WNBA and the implications of officiating decisions as teams continue to navigate the playoffs.  Finally, The Athletic\u2019s Sports Betting Editor, Hannah Vanbiber joins Zena and Ben to discuss the basics of sports betting \u2013 from money lines to point spreads and totals \u2013 before entertaining some made-up WNBA prop bets.<\/p>\n<p>Now PlayingPausedAd Playing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t Break the Fever, WNBA Officiating Under Review + Sports Betting 101Zena, Ben, and Sabreena take a dive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,92458,92457,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-183490","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-cydney-henderson","11":"tag-meghan-hall","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183490","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=183490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}