The 2026 WNBA playoffs are on the verge of starting, as Thursday will mark the last day of the regular season.<\/p>\n
All eight playoff teams are set, but the exact seeding for several squads still isn’t finalized.<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at the updated playoff picture after the Atlanta Dream secured an 83-65 win over the New York Liberty on Wednesday and the Dallas Wings beat the Seattle Storm 103-91 to improve to 27-17.<\/p>\n
Updated WNBA Playoff Picture<\/p>\n
With the victory, Atlanta officially clinched the No. 4 seed heading into the playoffs. New York’s loss ensured that the Liberty are the No. 8 seed, while Dallas is set at No. 7.<\/p>\n
The Lynx have also locked up the No. 1 seed, but the Valkyries and Aces are still battling for No. 2.<\/p>\n
Golden State can clinch the No. 2 seed with a win in its regular-season finale or a loss by Las Vegas. Meanwhile, the Aces need the Valkyries to lose to go along with their own victory or else they’ll be locked into No. 3.<\/p>\n
As for Indiana, the Fever will be the No. 5 seed unless they lose on Thursday and the Mystics win. If either of those results don’t occur, Washington is set to enter the playoffs as the No. 6 seed.<\/p>\n
Considering Indiana is closing out the regular season against a Minnesota team that doesn’t need to worry about seeding, it isn’t hard to imagine the Fever ultimately staying at No. 5 heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 WNBA playoffs are on the verge of starting, as Thursday will mark the last day of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-907417","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\/907417","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=907417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}