{"id":564674,"date":"2026-03-27T16:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564674\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:24:08","slug":"2026-wnba-expansion-draft-on-april-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564674\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WNBA Expansion draft on April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The WNBA\u2019s offseason is about to start now that a Collective Bargaining Agreement is in place. The first order of business is to hold an expansion draft for the Toronto Tempo and the Portland Fire. The first order of business: determining which team drafts first. A coin toss will be held later today to determine that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The next step is for the 13 existing teams, including the Washington Mystics, to have a chance to protect up to five players from the expansion draft. That deadline is Mar. 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Finally, the expansion draft itself will be held on Friday, April 3 at 3:30 p.m. It will be aired on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA\u2019s offseason is about to start now that a Collective Bargaining Agreement is in place. The first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,701,82,737,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-564674","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-latest-news","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-washington-mystics","13":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564674","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=564674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}