{"id":188260,"date":"2025-10-03T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188260\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T22:32:08","slug":"wnba-finals-score-and-live-updates-mercury-vs-aces-game-1-predictions-odds-how-to-watch-and-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188260\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA Finals score and live updates: Mercury vs. Aces Game 1 predictions, odds, how to watch and schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opening round of the WNBA playoffs was a compressed best-of-three format, and the second-round semifinals bumped up to best-of-five action. Fittingly, these finals get a full seven-game layout, and the team to earn four wins lifts the trophy (then sprays the trophy with sparkling wine).<\/p>\n<p>Previous finals were held to just five games, like the semifinals. The 2024 championship came down to the waning seconds of Game 5, and the New York Liberty outlasted the Minnesota Lynx in overtime.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 series has a 2-2-1-1-1 travel structure, so Las Vegas (better record and higher seeding) hosts the first two games, which are set for Friday and Sunday. Phoenix has the next two in the desert. The home team then alternates on the last three potential duels. If these finals indeed go the distance, Game 7 would be in the Aces\u2019 gym \u2026 which is in a casino, because, well, it\u2019s Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening round of the WNBA playoffs was a compressed best-of-three format, and the second-round semifinals bumped up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-188260","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\/188260","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=188260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}