{"id":560853,"date":"2026-04-02T20:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560853\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:59:09","slug":"dallas-wings-announce-theme-nights-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560853\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings announce theme nights for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/article\/wnba-expansion-draft-wings-portland-toronto-22184513.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> upcoming WNBA season <\/a>almost underway, the Dallas Wings announced Thursday their nine theme nights for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities will begin with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/wings\/2026\/01\/21\/dallas-wings-schedule-release-paige-bueckers-american-airlines-center-wnba\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">home opener on May 12<\/a>, when the Wings host the Atlanta Dream at College Park Center in Arlington. June\u2019s celebrations include Pride Night on June 11, the day the team plays the Phoenix Mercury, and African American Heritage on June 28, when the Wings meet the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n<p>When the Wings play the New York Liberty on July 16, they will celebrate mascot Lightning&#8217;s Birthday. The Wings will honor trailblazers and changemakers on July 19\u2019s Inspiring Women Night. They\u2019ll close the month with a Back to School game against the Atlanta Dream on July 29.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s annual Rock the Pink breast cancer awareness contest will take place on August 30.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Against the Los Angeles Sparks on September 17, the Wings will host the Celebracion Latina game. The theme nights will conclude with Wings Celebrate: Fans and Arlington on September 19, when the Wings meet the Mercury in the regular season home finale.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 WNBA season tips off May 8. Dallas opens its season May 9 on the road at the Indiana Fever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the upcoming WNBA season almost underway, the Dallas Wings announced Thursday their nine theme nights for 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-560853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}