{"id":921535,"date":"2026-10-05T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:26:18","slug":"wnba-photo-essay-a-look-at-how-the-fire-of-defensive-player-of-the-year-angel-reese-fueled-the-atlanta-dreams-game-1-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921535\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA photo essay: A look at how the fire of Defensive Player of the Year Angel Reese fueled the Atlanta Dream\u2019s Game 1 win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Angel Reese played in her third-career WNBA playoff game on Sunday afternoon in State Farm Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">She also earned her third-career WNBA playoff win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swishappeal.com\/wnba\/88157\/semifinals-game-1-scores-stats-dream-liberty-jordina-canada-angel-reese-allisha-dewanna-valkyries-aces-kiah-stokes-gabby-williams-aja-wilson-becky-hammon-highlights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">While Jordin Canada<\/a> and DeWanna Bonner were the headliners for the victorious Atlanta Dream in their Game 1 WNBA semifinal win over the New York Liberty, Reese was as essential as ever for Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Following her pregame Defensive Player of the Year presser, Angel demonstrated why the DPOY trophy belongs to her, with her seven rebounds, four steals and three blocks contributing to an overwhelming defensive effort by the Dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The play, plus the passion, helped propel Atlanta to a 3-0 mark in the 2026 WNBA postseason\u2014the only team still undefeated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Christina Merrion, Swish Appeal\u2019s contributing photographer, was in State Farm Arena for all the Game 1 excitement generated by Angel and the rest of the Dream. Here\u2019s what she captured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Reese played in her third-career WNBA playoff game on Sunday afternoon in State Farm Arena. She also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630,26214],"class_list":["post-921535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921535","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=921535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}