{"id":644245,"date":"2026-05-03T02:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644245\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:29:25","slug":"one-breakout-star-each-wnba-team-cant-afford-to-lose-in-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644245\/","title":{"rendered":"One Breakout Star Each WNBA Team Can\u2019t Afford to Lose in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Every team has stars it just cannot afford to lose. The Las Vegas Aces wouldn\u2019t be the same team without A\u2019ja Wilson, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/new_york_liberty\/17263\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a> need Breanna Stewart to compete for a championship, and Kelsey Mitchell proved last season how important she is to the Fever\u2019s title hopes.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>But those are all established stars. Each team also has young players it cannot afford to lose, even if they are still developing and haven\u2019t had their big breakout yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every team has stars it just cannot afford to lose. The Las Vegas Aces wouldn\u2019t be the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-644245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644245","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=644245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}