The Lynx will tip off the season May 9 against the Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n
MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 The Minnesota Lynx will start their season a little early.<\/p>\n
The team announced Friday that they’ve moved up their season-opener against the Atlanta Dream to Saturday, May 9. The game, which is also the Lynx’s home opener, will tip off at 7 p.m. at Target Center.<\/p>\n
While five-time All-Star Napheesa Collier won’t yet be in the lineup as she continues to recover<\/a> from an ankle injury she suffered in the playoffs last season, there’s still plenty of optimism, especially with the addition of No. 2 overall pick Olivia Miles<\/a>. Kayla McBride and Courtney Williams return after averaging 14.2 and 13.6 points per game, respectively.<\/p>\n The four-time WNBA champions are expected to be among the top teams in the league this season. The Lynx finished with the best regular-season record in the league last year, before losing to the Phoenix Mercury in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lynx will tip off the season May 9 against the Atlanta Dream. MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 The Minnesota Lynx…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-618035","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\/618035","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=618035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}