{"id":907521,"date":"2026-09-24T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907521\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:28:12","slug":"lynx-to-face-liberty-in-round-1-of-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907521\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx to face Liberty in Round 1 of WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lynx know their first-round date for the WNBA playoffs \u2026 and it\u2019s a familiar one.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will battle New York in Round 1, with Game 1 of the best-of-3 series set for Sunday at Target Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberty locked themselves into the No. 8 seed with a loss to Atlanta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>New York, which edged the Lynx in the dramatic, controversial WNBA Finals in 2024, won two of its three regular-season matchups against Minnesota this season, including a 93-81 win at Target Center on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota wraps its regular season with a home bout against Indiana on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lynx know their first-round date for the WNBA playoffs \u2026 and it\u2019s a familiar one. Minnesota will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,736,82,630],"class_list":["post-907521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907521","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=907521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}