{"id":413947,"date":"2026-08-22T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413947\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T16:44:11","slug":"wnba-clinching-scenarios-dallas-wings-closing-in-on-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/413947\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA clinching scenarios: Dallas Wings closing in on playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regular season schedule for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a> concludes on Sept. 23 in Seattle, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/paige-bueckers\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Bueckers<\/a> and Co. are closing in on clinching a spot in the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of Sunday\u2019s result when Dallas faces Seattle at home in its next scheduled contest, a win against the Fire, who sit ninth in the WNBA standings,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DallasWingsPR\/status\/2091159386030850397?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">will guarantee a spot in the playoffs<\/a> for the Wings for the first time since the 2023 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dallas currently holds the eighth and final qualifying spot, but with seven games left to play, there is still a chance to improve the Wings&#8217; outlook.<\/p>\n<p>While the Minnesota Lynx (31-7) have separated themselves from the pack at the top of the league, the Wings (21-16) are only 4.5 games behind Golden State (25-11), who owns the WNBA&#8217;s second-best record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dallas is only a half game behind Washington (21-15) for the No. 7 seed and a full game behind New York (22-15) for the sixth spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the season ended today, the Wings would face the Lynx in a three-game opening round matchup.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The regular season schedule for the Dallas Wings concludes on Sept. 23 in Seattle, but Paige Bueckers and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,89477,89478],"class_list":["post-413947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-arike-ogunbowale","tag-tp-paige-bueckers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}