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Fever-Aces Game 1 Averages 2.11M Viewers On ABC

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Updated Oct 1, 1:31 AM ET

Game 1 between the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces averaged a 1.2 rating with 2.11 million viewers on ABC. It was ABC's largest audience for a WNBA playoff game, and the third largest audience since 2000. Game 1 of Liberty-Lynx averaged 1.2 million viewers on ABC earlier in the day. WNBA games averaged 731,000 viewers across all networks this season, up 11% from last year.

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Lexie Brown singles out Caitlin Clark trait that will make her ‘one of the best point guards to ever play in the WNBA’

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Caitlin Clark has already cemented herself as one of the best players in the WNBA this year, but she is now being backed to be one of the top point guards in history. Clark ended the 2026 regular season with the most total points created in the entire league, and most recently impressed for the Indiana Fever in game two of their first-round playoff series.

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WNBA playoff discussion: What are the Game 2 solutions for the Washington Mystics and Dallas Wings?

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Paige Bueckers. | Getty Images Six of the eight teams that made the 2026 WNBA Playoffs also participated in last postseason. The new entrants? The Washington Mystics and Dallas Wings, both returning to postseason play for the first time since 2023. For the Mystics, Shakira Austin is the only player remaining from the 2023 team that lost in the first round. The 2023 Wings, who won their first round series before being swept in the semifinals, featured Arike Ogunbowale, Odyssey Sims, Maddy Sieg...

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The Liberty’s Big 3 returned for unfinished business … and they’re getting to work

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NEW YORK — White rally towels blanketed seats in Barclays Center pregame. It would soon be filled with nearly 18,000 raucous fans on Tuesday night, but for a moment there was a calm. When the storm hit, it was the Minnesota Lynx who were sent seeking shelter. The initial surge came courtesy of Jonquel Jones, who scored the Liberty’s first 7 points of the game, tirelessly working the offensive glass. Then came a cutting layup from Breanna Stewart off the assist from Sabrina Ionescu. It was Ionesc

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Will Napheesa Collier be back with the Lynx? Minnesota enters a murky offseason

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MINNEAPOLIS — Perhaps, Minnesota just needed more time. More time for this team — which had already jelled around the breakout play of a rookie point guard in Olivia Miles — to welcome back a second star in Napheesa Collier, around whom this Lynx planet orbits. But Minnesota was on the clock. Collier returned from a 2025 injury with 16 games remaining in the 2026 regular season after undergoing ankle surgeries in January and March. The Lynx had 16 games to not necessarily reinvent the wheel, but

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The New York Liberty are headed to the semifinals. | NBAE via Getty Images This was what we’ve been waiting for. The New York Liberty entered the 2026 WNBA season among the championship favorites before injuries and inconsistencies defined a maddeningly mediocre regular season, resulting in them landing as the No. 8 seed in 2026 WNBA Playoffs. On Tuesday night in Brooklyn, the Liberty didn’t necessarily prove that the regular season doesn’t matter, but that championship experience and superst...

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Liberty Shock Lynx With Historic WNBA Playoff Upset As No. 1 Seed Implodes - Fadeaway World

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Updated Oct 1, 2:46 AM ET

The Minnesota Lynx had 44 regular-season wins, the No. 1 seed and one of the deepest rosters in the WNBA. None of it mattered Tuesday night. The New York Liberty walked into Barclays Center and dismantled Minnesota 87-71, completing a two-game sweep and becoming the first No. 8 seed in WNBA history to eliminate a […]

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Sonia Citron never thought she’d play in the WNBA. Now she’s the Mystics’ go-to scorer

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As she entered the fourth quarter of her first WNBA postseason game, Sonia Citron picked up her level of aggression. The All-Star guard was bringing up the ball, directing traffic, calling for screens to switch her defensive matchup and knifing her way into the paint, doing anything to put points on the board in a last-ditch comeback attempt. That’s the Citron the Washington Mystics have come to expect, the 2026 league leader in clutch points and their go-to perimeter scorer, who is already a tw

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