{"id":861199,"date":"2026-09-26T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861199\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T09:32:30","slug":"atlanta-hosts-washington-to-begin-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861199\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta hosts Washington to begin playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington Mystics<\/a> (28-16, 15-5 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream<\/a> (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Atlanta; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Dream -6.5; over\/under is 164.5<\/p>\n

WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND: Dream host first series matchup<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Dream host the Washington Mystics in game one of the first round of the WNBA playoffs. Washington went 2-1 against Atlanta during the regular season. The Mystics won the last regular season matchup 79-74 on Aug. 7. Kiki Iriafen<\/a> led the Mystics with 15 points, and Allisha Gray<\/a> led the Dream with 26 points.<\/p>\n

The Dream’s record in Eastern Conference play is 15-5. Atlanta scores 91.3 points while outscoring opponents by 6.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Mystics are 15-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. Washington ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference shooting 32.3% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Atlanta scores 91.3 points, 8.6 more per game than the 82.7 Washington gives up. Washington averages 6.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.8 fewer made shots on average than the 8.1 per game Atlanta allows.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Angel Reese<\/a> is averaging 16.4 points, 12.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Dream. Rhyne Howard<\/a> is averaging 17.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Iriafen is averaging 15.3 points and 9.6 rebounds for the Mystics. Sonia Citron<\/a> is averaging 13.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 9-1, averaging 95.7 points, 36.1 rebounds, 23.6 assists, 9.9 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Mystics: 8-2, averaging 92.1 points, 37.6 rebounds, 21.3 assists, 5.4 steals and 3.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dream: Brionna Jones: out for season (leg), Angel Reese: day to day (face).<\/p>\n

Mystics: Shakira Austin<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Sonia Citron: out (personal).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Mystics (28-16, 15-5 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference) Atlanta; Sunday, 7 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4130,3691,3444,230765,8255,18118,648,8254,99,8253,434,13016],"class_list":["post-861199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-event_preview","tag-kiki-iriafen","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-shakira-austin","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sports","tag-washington-mystics","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861199","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=861199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}