{"id":416967,"date":"2026-08-26T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416967\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:18:11","slug":"dallas-wings-clinch-wnba-playoffs-berth-for-first-time-since-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416967\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings clinch WNBA Playoffs berth for first time since 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; The Dallas Wings secured their ticket to the 2026 WNBA Playoffs with a win on Tuesday night, sending them to the postseason for the first time in three years.<\/p>\n<p>   Wings clinch playoff spot <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/gettyimages-2291532514-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">ARLINGTON, TX &#8211; AUGUST 25: Paige Bueckers #5 and Maddy Siegrist #20 of the Dallas Wings celebrate clinching a playoff spot after the game against the Portland Fire on August 25, 2026 at the College Park Center in Arlington, TX. NOTE TO USER: User exp <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Dallas Wings beat the Portland Fire 96-78 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The win clinched a 2026 WNBA Playoff berth for the team, becoming the eighth and final team to clinch a postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s the first time the Wings will play in the WNBA Playoffs since 2023.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Paige Bueckers contributed 22 points in the victory. Jessica Shepard chipped in 21 points, and Arike Ogunbowale contributed 17.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The win on Tuesday was the team&#8217;s 22nd of the 2026 season, which is a franchise record.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">We won&#8217;t know who the Wings will play in the 2026 WNBA Playoffs until at or near the end of the WNBA&#8217;s regular season.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Wings have five more regular season games remaining, with their final regular season game taking place on Sept. 23 against the Seattle Storm.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The 2026 WNBA Playoffs begin on Sept. 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/wnba\/wings\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Wings<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/wnba\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; The Dallas Wings secured their ticket to the 2026 WNBA Playoffs with a win on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,154,1072,14422],"class_list":["post-416967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-sports","tag-wings","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416967","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=416967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}