{"id":362702,"date":"2026-10-02T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362702\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:20:24","slug":"analysis-how-new-york-liberty-swept-the-1-seed-minnesota-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362702\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: How New York Liberty swept the #1 seed Minnesota Lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Liberty, as slight underdogs, will take on the Atlanta Dream in the semifinals of the WNBA Playoffs after not just defeating, nor even just sweeping, but destroying the #1 seed Minnesota Lynx in the first round. They won each matchup by 16 points, the two-game set slightly more competitive, I guess, than the whooping my New York Yankees just put on that disgraceful bunch of Bostonians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Here\u2019s a video breaking down the most important plays from Tuesday night\u2019s series-clinching victory, as well as a couple insights into that Atlanta matchup:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And here are some more insights:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The New York Liberty face the Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of the best-of-5 series on Sunday, though the tip-off time is yet to be determined. We\u2019ll let you know when we find out. Just have the popcorn on standby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty, as slight underdogs, will take on the Atlanta Dream in the semifinals of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,8915,10],"class_list":["post-362702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}