{"id":869505,"date":"2026-10-03T15:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869505\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T15:32:09","slug":"after-special-season-the-mystics-will-enter-2027-with-lofty-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869505\/","title":{"rendered":"After \u2018special\u2019 season, the Mystics will enter 2027 with lofty expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JUXKGZNG5VG4XEI6NMQ27QIWTM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For most of Wednesday\u2019s postgame news conference, Kiki Iriafen stared dejectedly at the ground. She struggled to find words after what had just happened.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QWO4SA3N3RHGHDVXFQUQS4RE5Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Washington Mystics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/09\/30\/mystics-cant-catch-up-season-ending-loss-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2026\/09\/30\/mystics-cant-catch-up-season-ending-loss-dream\/\">suffered a season-ending loss<\/a> to the Atlanta Dream at CareFirst Arena. Iriafen, still donning her crimson jersey and white headband, wasn\u2019t looking to talk. \u201cKiki, you haven\u2019t answered one [question],\u201d fellow starter Sonia Citron said midway through the news conference, pushing Iriafen to chime in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most of Wednesday\u2019s postgame news conference, Kiki Iriafen stared dejectedly at the ground. She struggled to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-869505","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\/869505","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=869505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}