{"id":24792,"date":"2025-08-14T05:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/minnesota-lynx-clinch-wnba-playoffs-first-in-the-postseason\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T05:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:07:32","slug":"minnesota-lynx-clinch-wnba-playoffs-first-in-the-postseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wnba\/minnesota-lynx-clinch-wnba-playoffs-first-in-the-postseason\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx Clinch WNBA Playoffs: First in the Postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Minnesota Lynx Clinch a WNBA Playoff Berth<\/h2>\n<p>Despite not playing on Tuesday, the first-place Minnesota Lynx women&#8217;s basketball team became the first WNBA team to secure a playoff spot this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Wings&#8217; victory over the Indiana Fever with a score of 81-80 guaranteed Minnesota&#8217;s spot in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>MVP candidate Napheesa Collier hasn&#8217;t played since August 2nd due to an ankle injury, but this hasn&#8217;t slowed down the Lynx, who have a 27-5 record. Currently, the team is on a five-game winning streak and has won nine of their last ten games.<\/p>\n<p>The next two Minnesota games will be against the New York Liberty, rivals in the 2024 WNBA Finals, on August 16th and 19th.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1999, Minnesota, which has won four WNBA titles, will make its sixteenth postseason appearance, 14 of which have been in the last 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA regular season will end on September 11, with eight teams advancing to the playoffs. The first round will be a best-of-three series, the semifinals a best-of-five, and the Finals, for the first time, a best-of-seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Lynx Clinch a WNBA Playoff Berth Despite not playing on Tuesday, the first-place Minnesota Lynx women&#8217;s basketball team became the first WNBA team to secure a playoff spot this season. The Dallas Wings&#8217; victory over the Indiana Fever with a score of 81-80 guaranteed Minnesota&#8217;s spot in the postseason. MVP candidate Napheesa Collier hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[377,379,2418,7019],"class_list":{"0":"post-24792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-dallas-wings","9":"tag-minnesota-lynx","10":"tag-napheesa-collier","11":"tag-wnba-playoffs"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}