WNBA Playoffs Articles - Page 8

The WNBA playoffs begin on Sunday at 1 p.m. EST when the No. 1 New York Liberty host the No. 8 Atlanta Dream in Game 1 of their three-game series. Later that afternoon, when the Indiana Fever plays the Connecticut Sun at 3 p.m. EST, many players on the Fever will be experiencing their first […]

The Phoenix Mercury received devastating news ahead of their first-round matchup against the Minnesota Lynx. The Mercury will take on the Lynx without forward Rebecca Allen, who had a season-ending back procedure. She played in 18 games and started in every single one. Allen also dealt with a lingering hamstring issue she sustained before the […]

The Las Vegas Aces have plenty of advantages heading into the WNBA Playoffs. Even with Aces center A’ja Wilson playing historically, they have something crucial over every other team. Experience. Las Vegas has more experience than any other team in the playoffs. They have a combined 273 playoff games played, which is the most in […]

The Seattle Storm take on the Las Vegas Aces. Our WNBA Playoffs odds series has our Storm Aces prediction, odds, and pick. Find out how to watch Storm Aces. The Las Vegas Aces, for the first 30 games of the 40-game WNBA season, looked like a team which was laboring under the burden of being […]

The Atlanta Dream are back in the playoffs for the second straight season as they begin their road to a WNBA championship. The New York Liberty, who is arguably the best team in the league, will stand in the way of their aspirations. For the past few weeks, the Dream have been battling to get […]

The Phoenix Mercury take on the Minnesota Lynx. Check out our WNBA Playoffs odds odds series for our Mercury-Lynx prediction, odds, and pick. Find out how to watch Mercury Lynx. The New York Liberty were the best team in the WNBA this regular season, and the Minnesota Lynx were a close second. Minnesota has actually […]

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever take on the Connecticut Sun in the postseason. Our WNBA playoffs odds odds series has our Fever Sun prediction, odds, and pick. Find out how to watch Fever Sun. The Indiana Fever were 1-8 through nine games in a 40-game WNBA regular season. Not only were they losing games […]

The Atlanta Dream take on the New York Liberty. Check out our WNBA Playoffs odds series for our Dream Liberty prediction, odds, and pick. Find out how to watch Dream Liberty. The Atlanta Dream played the New York Liberty on Thursday night in the WNBA regular season finale. However, the Liberty did not play their […]

The Atlanta Dream have signed former Savannah State University star point guard Ezinne Kalu to a seven-day hardship contract. The organization announced the roster move this past Wednesday as they prepare for their WNBA playoff run. Kalu also appeared in the Dream’s win over the New York Liberty on Thursday. The 5’8 scoring machine aims […]

The 2024 WNBA regular season concluded Thursday night, and the playoffs are scheduled to begin Sunday, September 22. The New York Liberty (+150) are the betting favorites to win the 2024 WNBA Championship on FanDuel. The next two teams by order of odds are the Las Vegas Aces (+250) and Minnesota Lynx (+350). Breanna Stewart […]

With the 2024 WNBA Playoffs around the corner, the No. 7 seed Phoenix Mercury are set to take on the No. 2 seed Minnesota Lynx in the first round of the playoffs. With it possibly being Diana Taurasi’s final season with the Mercury, the matchup could weigh more. Although the Mercury and Lynx are separated […]

Indiana Fever head coach Christie Sides confirmed that Kelsey Mitchell is doing fine after a minor injury scare during Thursday night’s regular-season finale against the Washington Mystics. Mitchell, who averages 19.6 points per game, briefly left the game in the first quarter after tangling with a defender and appearing to injure her left leg. However, […]

For the Indiana Fever, Thursday night’s regular-season finale at the Washington Mystics didn’t hold any value. The Fever were already fastened as the No. 6 seed in the WNBA playoffs and will be shipped off to Connecticut in mere days. But for the so-called Gray Squad, Thursday was an opportunity Christie Sides hadn’t given them […]

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever’s playoff opponent has been revealed following their 92-91 loss to the Washington Mystics on Thursday night. The Fever will face the Connecticut Sun in the first round of the 2024 WNBA playoffs. Despite the loss, Indiana finishes the regular season with a 20-20 record and enters the postseason as […]

The Indiana Fever have qualified for the WNBA playoffs for the first time since 2016, thanks in large part to how transformative Caitlin Clark has been despite only being a rookie. Clark, in addition to being one of the best offensive forces in the association by virtue of her unlimited range, she has also gotten […]

The WNBA Playoffs are right around the corner, and fans who are new to the league might expect the women’s playoff format to be the same as the NBA. However, there are several key differences in the playoffs of both leagues, and this article will try to cover them in sufficient detail. So, here are […]

With one more day left of the WNBA regular season, the Atlanta Dream are still fighting for a playoff spot. They are attempting to do so short-handed as well. They are currently without Cheyenne Parker-Tyus and Aerial Powers, both of whom are out due to injury. To help shore up their roster, the Dream signed […]

The Chicago Sky have had a shaky second half of the 2024 season. Chicago has gone 2-8 in its last 10 games and faced a plethora of injuries, including a major one to All-Star rookie Angel Reese. Despite being pushed to the bottom of the league standings with Tuesday’s Atlanta Dream loss and the Washington […]

The New York Liberty have officially accomplished all they can in the 2024 regular season. Their 87-71 victory over the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night gives them the No. 1 seed in the WNBA Playoffs, set to begin on Sunday. New York has one more regular season game, Thursday night at home against the Atlanta […]

The Boston Celtics have been the favorite to win the NBA Finals for awhile now, and they are two series wins away from doing so. The Celtics knocked off the Cleveland Cavaliers in their last series, and they are now in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Indiana Pacers. Game one of the series took […]

In the aftermath of the Las Vegas Aces’ 2023 WNBA championship win over the New York Liberty, a lot of emotions have come out from the Aces’ side of things. In particular, Kelsey Plum couldn’t fathom just how much adversity the Aces have overcome en route to winning their second straight title, and in expressing […]

It may have seemed inevitable from the moment they began to dominate the opposition in the regular season, but on Wednesday night, the Las Vegas Aces finally took their seat atop the WNBA totem pole, claiming their second consecutive championship with a 70-69 win in Game 4 of the Finals against the New York Liberty. […]

Before the New York Liberty became a so-called ‘super team’ when they signed Breanna Stewart and Courtney Vandersloot, the first offseason move the team made was to acquire Jonquel Jones from the Connecticut Sun. It was a precursor of sorts to the rest of the Liberty’s offseason moves. It took Jones the first half of […]

Heading into Sunday’s crucial Game 4 of the second round of the WNBA Playoffs, the Connecticut Sun were looking to avoid elimination and force a deciding Game 5 against the New York Liberty. The Sun have been a regular in the WNBA Finals over the last couple of seasons with appearances in 2019 and 2022. […]

Throughout the entire WNBA season, and even before the season began, the New York Liberty were projected to be the team to challenge the Las Vegas Aces for the WNBA championship. And for the most part, they’ve looked the part. But while the Aces have swept through the first two rounds of the WNBA Playoffs […]

Dallas and Las Vegas face off in Game 2 of the WNBA Playoffs Semifinals. Head on to our WNBA series with this Wings-Aces odds, prediction, pick, and how to watch. The Las Vegas Aces controlled play in the opening game of the series, taking a double-digit victory on their home floor and covering the 11-point […]

Connecticut and New York face off in Game 2 of the WNBA Playoffs Semifinals on Tuesday. Head on to our WNBA series with this Sun-Liberty odds, prediction, pick, and how to watch. The Connecticut Sun handed the Liberty their first loss of the postseason on Sunday and the first loss against the Sun in the […]

The New York Liberty looked far from the juggernaut team that dominated the regular season in Game 1 of their best-of-five WNBA semi-finals series against the Connecticut Sun. Connecticut, who went winless against New York during their season series, shocked the Liberty with a 78-63 beatdown of the No. 2 seed team. The Sun set […]

Defending a championship in any professional sport is never easy. Not every athlete copes well with being “hunted” by the rest of the league. But the Las Vegas Aces seem to be doing just fine. Continuing on their road to a second consecutive WNBA championship, A’ja Wilson and the Aces handily took care of business […]

The New York Liberty have made it a point over the past few weeks to explicitly state that their goal is to cement their status as the best team in New York, or, at the very least, take care of business to set up a likely WNBA Finals matchup against the Las Vegas Aces. However, […]

We’re only at the semi-finals portion of the 2023 WNBA Playoffs, yet it seems like the stage is already set for a colossal Finals showdown between the defending champion Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty. There are a lot of reasons to believe an Aces-Liberty finale is a certainty. They were, in fact, […]

The second round of the 2023 WNBA Playoffs has not even started yet, but everybody already expects the Las Vegas Aces to just breeze their way past the Dallas Wings in their best-of-five series that will tip off on Sunday at the Michelob Ultra Arena. Do the Wings have any chance to shock the world […]

The stage is set for the semi-finals of the 2023 WNBA Playoffs as the No. 1 seed Las Vegas Aces square off against the Dallas Wings in a best-of-five series. Game 1 of the Las Vegas-Dallas clash will be on Monday as A’ja Wilson and the Aces prepare to defend their crown. Ahead of the […]

With the New York Liberty’s 2023 WNBA Playoffs series coming up against the Connecticut Sun, the world will be watching to see if the Liberty can live up to their preseason billing as the biggest threat to the Las Vegas Aces’ throne. Ahead of that series, we’ll be making our Liberty predictions. It was a […]

The Connecticut Sun advanced to a fifth straight WNBA semifinal on Wednesday night following a 15-point triumph over the Minnesota Lynx. Alyssa Thomas and DeWanna Bonner each had double-doubles in the deciding Game 3 matchup in the first round of the WNBA playoffs. They combined for 53 of the Sun’s 90 points. The win sets […]

The Minnesota Lynx had their season come to an end after losing to the Connecticut Sun by the score of 90-75 in Game 3 of the first round of the WNBA Playoffs, and Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve gave a lot of praise to Sun star Alyssa Thomas after the loss. “The common denominator in all […]

Getting buckets in the WNBA playoffs is a hard feat. Not only are the games shorter compared to the NBA but the defenses and tactics are a bit tougher to circumvent. This is why reaching over a thousand points in the postseason is a coveted feat that most players want but rarely get. There is […]

The Dallas Wings moved on to the second round of the WNBA Playoffs for the first time in franchise history after beating the Atlanta Dream 101-74 in Game 2 of their series on Tuesday night. With the Wings moving on to face the Las Vegas Aces in the second round of the playoffs, Dallas star […]

Connecticut and Minnesota face off in Game 3 of the first round of the WNBA playoffs! Head on to our WNBA series with this Sun-Lynx odds, prediction, pick, and how to watch. The Connecticut Sun are looking to avoid an upset as the third seed, heading on the road to Minneapolis for a must-win Game […]