{"id":71686,"date":"2025-08-15T13:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71686\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:27:08","slug":"atlanta-dream-seattle-storm-set-for-first-wnba-international-regular-season-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71686\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream-Seattle Storm set for first WNBA international regular season game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-events-and-attractions \">The Dream and Storm play Friday night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver at 7pm, marking the \u201cfirst time the WNBA has played a regular-season outside the United States.\u201d Approximately 3,000 tickets had been sold for the game at the 19,700-seat arena as of Wednesday, with organizers expecting remaining tickets \u201cto go quickly.\u201d They start at $32, with the \u201cmajority of the remaining seats in the upper bowl.\u201d The WNBA has played five games outside the U.S. which have all previously been exhibitions. There are nine months until the 2026 WNBA season starts, which \u201cwill mark the first campaign for the expansion\u201d Toronto Tempo (<a href=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/wnba-vancouver-friday?itm_source=sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/theprovince.com\/sports\/wnba-vancouver-friday?itm_source=sports\">Vancouver PROVINCE, 8\/13<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dream and Storm play Friday night at Rogers Arena in Vancouver at 7pm, marking the \u201cfirst time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[461,49,48,82,630,4143],"class_list":["post-71686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-basketball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686","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=71686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}