{"id":879945,"date":"2026-09-01T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879945\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T21:54:09","slug":"as-wnba-playoffs-loom-atl-dreams-howard-and-reese-take-on-2026-fiba-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/879945\/","title":{"rendered":"As WNBA Playoffs Loom, ATL Dream&#8217;s Howard And Reese Take On 2026 FIBA World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercury&#8217;s Kelsey Plum and Aces&#8217; A&#8217;ja Wilson were originally tapped to play in the nine-day tournament but have since been replaced with Citron and the Mystics&#8217; Kiki Iriafen due to health concerns, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DctCfOTpjUT\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">USA Basketball.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m so excited to announce the 2026 USA Basketball Women&#8217;s National Team,&#8221; said USA Basketball Women\u2019s National Team managing director Sue Bird in an Aug. 6 news release. &#8220;This is an incredibly talented group that has earned the opportunity to compete in Berlin. Wearing a USA jersey is a privilege, and I know these 12 players will embrace that responsibility as we go after another gold medal. I can&#8217;t wait to see what this team accomplishes together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mercury&#8217;s Kelsey Plum and Aces&#8217; A&#8217;ja Wilson were originally tapped to play in the nine-day tournament but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-879945","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\/879945","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=879945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}