{"id":98050,"date":"2025-08-21T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98050\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:25:08","slug":"the-liberty-factor-that-will-determine-their-race-for-no-2-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/98050\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberty factor that will determine their race for No. 2 seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WNBA likely couldn\u2019t construct a more exciting frenzy to wind down the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the league-leading Lynx, who are sitting with a 6 \u00b9\/\u2082 game lead a playoff spot locked in, those behind them are fighting for the best remaining spots.<\/p>\n<p>The race among the No. 2 Liberty (22-13) and the three teams down to fifth place \u2014 the Dream (22-13), Mercury (21-13) and Aces (22-14) \u2014 is especially tight heading into Thursday, with 8-10 games left for each team in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>After the Liberty earned <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/19\/sports\/stars-duos-double-doubles-finally-give-liberty-win-over-rival-lynx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a win over the Lynx on Tuesday<\/a>, the Aces pulled off a come-from-behind win over the Dream, and the Mercury beat the Valkyries, there is only a half-game that separates the Liberty and Aces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WNBA likely couldn\u2019t construct a more exciting frenzy to wind down the regular season. Apart from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1077,436,99,358,434],"class_list":["post-98050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98050","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=98050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}