{"id":864409,"date":"2026-09-29T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864409\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:30:12","slug":"mystics-set-to-play-dream-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/864409\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystics set to play Dream Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/washington-mystics-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Mystics<\/a> (28-16, 15-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Washington; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LINE: Dream -3.5; over\/under is 164.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Mystics play the Atlanta Dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Mystics are 15-5 in conference games. Washington leads the Eastern Conference with 27.4 defensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/shakira-austin-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shakira Austin<\/a> averaging 15.0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Dream have gone 15-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. Atlanta is 4-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Washington is shooting 45.4% from the field this season, 1.5 percentage points lower than the 46.9% Atlanta allows to opponents. Atlanta has shot at a 44.2% rate from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points above the 43.1% shooting opponents of Washington have averaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kiki-iriafen-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiki Iriafen<\/a> is scoring 15.3 points per game and averaging 9.6 rebounds for the Mystics. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sonia-citron-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonia Citron<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and 3.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/angel-reese-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angel Reese<\/a> is averaging 16.4 points, 12.1 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Dream. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/rhyne-howard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhyne Howard<\/a> is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Mystics: 7-3, averaging 90.5 points, 38.3 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 5.1 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.0 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Dream: 9-1, averaging 95.2 points, 36.0 rebounds, 23.3 assists, 10.0 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">INJURIES: Mystics: Sonia Citron: out (personal).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Dream: Brionna Jones: out for season (leg).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference) at Washington Mystics (28-16, 15-5 Eastern Conference) Washington; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[3691,3444,230765,8255,18118,648,8254,99,8253,434,13016],"class_list":["post-864409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","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\/864409","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=864409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}