{"id":578266,"date":"2026-08-08T05:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:40:19","slug":"storm-eliminated-from-2026-wnba-playoff-contention-updated-bracket-picture-and-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578266\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm Eliminated From 2026 WNBA Playoff Contention, Updated Bracket Picture and Standings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Storm are officially out of the running for the 2026 WNBA Playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Storm were eliminated from postseason contention with the Washington Mystics’ Friday night win over the Atlanta Dream, per ESPN’s Alexa Philippou<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seattle is the first team this season to be knocked out of the WNBA playoff picture.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at the WNBA standings following the Storm’s elimination. No team has yet guaranteed themselves the top-eight spot necessary to secure a playoff berth.<\/p>\n

The Storm recorded a 10th straight loss Wednesday at the New York Liberty to fall to 6-27 on the season.<\/p>\n

That made the Storm the first team in WNBA history<\/a> to record two double-digit losing streaks in the same season. Seattle also lost 11 straight games between May 27 and June 22.<\/p>\n

This marks the Storm’s first season without a playoff bid in three years, although the team was bounced from the first round in each of its last two campaigns under former head coach Noelle Quinn.<\/p>\n

A bright spot for the Storm this season has been Dominique Malonga, who is averaging 16.9 points and 8.7 rebounds per game in her breakout second WNBA campaign.<\/p>\n

Other young players including Awa Fam and Flau’jae Johnson are also developing into stars in Seattle. The Storm will hope that trio, as well as what will likely be a high pick in a draft<\/a> led by USC star JuJu Watkins, can help this team turn things around in 2027.<\/p>\n

The next team at risk of elimination from the WNBA playoff picture is the Connecticut Sun, which improved to 8-23 Friday night with a win over the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Storm are officially out of the running for the 2026 WNBA Playoffs. The Storm were eliminated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-578266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}