{"id":861719,"date":"2026-09-26T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861719\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T20:30:08","slug":"wnba-first-round-foes-mystics-and-dream-both-thrive-in-the-paint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/861719\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA first-round foes Mystics and Dream both thrive in the paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PQ2LVLQFKVEAZCPVUQIINSXVRY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Washington Mystics and Atlanta Dream thrive in the same region of the court \u2014 but through different approaches. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZA7X4RS6ONHUVGY3OMOBMCC6PQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Atlanta and Washington ranked first and second, respectively, in the WNBA in paint points per game this season. They were also the league\u2019s two top rebounding squads. So the clash on the inside could be critical when their best-of-three quarterfinal series tips off Sunday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics and Atlanta Dream thrive in the same region of the court \u2014 but through different&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-861719","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\/861719","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=861719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}