{"id":432165,"date":"2026-01-25T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T11:12:08","slug":"wnba-1st-round-playoff-deep-dive-angel-reeses-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/432165\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA 1st Round Playoff Deep Dive &#038; Angel Reese\u2019s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zena, Sabreena and Ben discuss the final few days of the Chicago Sky\u2019s season before turning their attention to 2025 WNBA Playoffs. They break down each of the four first-round series, discussing key matchups and X-factors, before predicting who will advance. Then, they give their title predictions as well. #wnba #angelreese #chicagosky 1:00 What\u2019s going on with the Chicago Sky? 2:59 Angel Reese misses final regular-season game 12:35 Explaining the new WNBA playoff format 15:41 Offensive and defense ratings explained 16:29 #1 Lynx vs. #8 Valkyries 22:19 #2 Aces vs. #7 Strom 28:43 #3 Dream vs. #7 Fever 35:07 #4 Mercury vs. Liberty #5 Follow and listen to the audio podcast: https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/no-offseason-the-athletic-womens-basketball-show\/id1699815468 Leave a comment wherever you\u2019re listening, or email us at NoOffseason@TheAthletic.com. You can also find us on socials: -Instagram: @tanooffseason -TikTok: @no_offseason -Zena on BlueSky: @zenakeita -Ben on BlueSky: @benpickman -Sabreena on BlueSky: @sabreenajm -Chantel on BlueSky: @chanteljennings Visit the Yahoo Women&#8217;s Sports Hub: https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/womens-sports\/?guccounter=1 Full Episodes Playlist: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL5UWQzuMYdm7txmok7cpMB3YlgkwrT2E0 Shorts Playlist: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL5UWQzuMYdm72uhBjsd24rsh5teZtgUpS Thumbnail: Evan Bernstein \/ Stringer \/ Getty Images North America via Getty Images Christian Petersen \/ Staff \/ Getty Images North America via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zena, Sabreena and Ben discuss the final few days of the Chicago Sky\u2019s season before turning their attention&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[724,49,48,726,6003,3484,82,630,26214],"class_list":["post-432165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-angel-reese","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-fever","tag-getty-images","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432165","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=432165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}