{"id":675898,"date":"2026-05-31T11:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:25:07","slug":"the-wnbas-youngest-team-is-keeping-games-close-stealing-wins-and-embracing-the-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/675898\/","title":{"rendered":"The WNBA\u2019s youngest team is keeping games close, stealing wins &#8212; and embracing the silly."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"FNGUTYV7YFG2XNOQ5XHG62L3SQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">There are teams in the WNBA with more experience. That have higher expectations. That are built to win this year and are striving to have significant success. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OUEM2QE2NFCDXAGQS4F4IX7VIQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">There may not, though, be a team having more fun than the Washington Mystics. Yes, the youngest team in the league is just 3-4 through its first seven games, and the growing pains aren\u2019t likely to disappear anytime soon. But as the Mystics start to jell, their chemistry and joy are helping them keep things interesting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are teams in the WNBA with more experience. That have higher expectations. That are built to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-675898","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\/675898","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=675898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}