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Aces

What the Aces need to do to advance to their fourth straight WNBA semifinals

By Matthew Walter / August 17, 2022

While Phoenix knocked Las Vegas out of last year’s playoffs this season’s opening round series has a much different feel to it

Locked on Women’s Basketball: 2022 WNBA Playoffs stats to know, predictions and hot takes

By The Next / August 17, 2022

Howard Megdal Founder/Editor of The Next discusses a series-by-series breakdown and predictions for the first round of the 2022 WNBA Playoffs

How can the Mercury topple the Aces?

By Hayden Cilley / August 17, 2022

‘We know what we can do’

‘We’re the Underdogs?’: How the Liberty can upset the Chicago Sky

By Jackie Powell / August 17, 2022

Can familiarity breed success?

Aces wing Jackie Young (0) goes around a screen from Aces center A'ja Wilson (22). Lynx off-ball guard Kayla McBride (21) goes under the Wilson screen.

Daily Briefing — Aug. 17, 2022: WNBA Playoffs? More like WNBA Play-Ons.

By Isabel Rodrigues / August 17, 2022

A’ja Wilson signs with a crunchy new team

Chicago Sky combo guard Allie Quigley holds her jump-shot form as the ball travels from her hands towards the rim, while Washington off-ball guard Alysha Clark holds an outstretched arm towards her from a foot away to weakly contest the shot. Other Mystics defenders stand in the background watching

Three things you need to know heading into Chicago Sky’s first-round matchup against the New York Liberty

By James Kay / August 16, 2022

Li Yueru will miss the rest of the season

The Indiana Fever home stadium

For the Indiana Fever, everything changed during 2022 — even their home stadium

By Tony East / August 16, 2022

Indiana did not win a game for the remainder of the season as changes and inconsistency caught up with them

Dream

Locked on Women’s Basketball: What’s next for Rhyne Howard, Naz Hillmon and the Atlanta Dream? 

By The Next / August 16, 2022

Gabriella Lewis joins host Howard Megdal to discuss a dramatic final weekend for the Atlanta Dream

Minnesota Lynx head coach/general manager Cheryl Reeve stands near midcourt holding a ball under her arm and laughing to Washington Mystics head coach/general manager Mike Thibault, who stands beside her.

A lack of buy-in doomed the Minnesota Lynx. What will the offseason bring?

By Lucas Seehafer / August 16, 2022

‘This team, I had to accept less’

Tiffany Hayes of the Atlanta Dream jogs down the court

Tiffany Hayes’ end-of-year absence, explained

By Gabriella Lewis / August 16, 2022

‘Not having Tip around definitely hurts’