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A'ja Wilson, Olivia Miles, Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell will vie for some of sports' biggest prizes over the coming few weeks.

The Minnesota Lynx had the best regular-season record in the WNBA. But according to Cheryl Reeve, that did not necessarily mean they had the team built to win in the playoffs.

In a season where the WNBA reached new heights, even the playoff intensity seems more profound than in previous years. Playoff basketball, at its core, tests more of the mental aspect than the physical one.

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Aces star A'ja Wilson will not face any further discipline over her confrontation with a fan during Tuesday's Game 2 against the Fever, a source told ESPN.

The trio of Napheesa Collier, Kayla McBride, and Courtney Williams has formed a formidable core for the Minnesota Lynx across the 2024, 2025, and 2026 seasons. They have led the Lynx to top-two regular-season finishes across these three seasons, including the top seed in each of the last two.

As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, ESPN examines Jose Fernandez's decades of impact in women's basketball.

The Indiana Fever needed a change to their physicality level to beat the Aces in Game 2 and Myisha Hines-Allen made it happen The post Indiana Fever used veteran pep talk to turn Game 2 around and even series with Las Vegas Aces appeared first on The IX Sports.

China will be the first stop in Project B's global women's basketball tour. Here's what we know.

The average WNBA game drew 11,474 fans in 2026 That's …

Breanna Stewart put on her hero cape in the first round of the playoffs and helped the Liberty punch their tickets to the semifinals. The two-time MVP played heavy minutes in both games to complete a sweep of the Lynx.

Minnesota has some big questions to answer following its shocking postseason exit.

Who's Winning It All? The post Updated 2026 WNBA Playoffs Schedule: Liberty Sweep Lynx, Fever Force Game 3 appeared first on Ballislife.com.

In Game 1, the WNBA's top transition defense bested the top transition offense The post How the Valkyries locked down the Wings in transition appeared first on The IX Sports.

Caitlin Clark made history during the Indiana Fever’s win over the Las Vegas Aces on Tuesday, and Nike have responded to her display. The Fever lost their opening first-round game against the Aces on Sunday, with Clark scoring 15 and assisting 10 in that tie.

Caitlin Clark finished with 27 points in Game 2 of the Indiana Fever vs. Las Vegas Aces playoff series, and she produced several highlight plays in the contest.

Time's up as Minnesota's veteran core could not get it done.

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.

New York needed everything it could get out of Stewie.

Caitlin Clark made WNBA playoff history with 14 points and 11 assists by halftime, then finished with 27 and 15 to force Game 3 vs. the Aces.

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.

Caitlin Clark didn’t hold back after Game 2, taking aim at the officiating and calling out a glaring free-throw discrepancy. Caitlin Clark’s running battle with WNBA officials hit a breaking point in Game 2.

We're really curious about why WNBA Rookie of the Year Olivia Miles wasn't playing in crunch time for the Lynx.

Down 0-1 in the first round of the WNBA playoffs, can the Mystics and Wings stay alive?

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...

Las Vegas hosts Indiana on Thursday with the winner advancing to the WNBA semifinals. Here's what could decide the game.

Cunningham got plenty of talk about her pregame outfit on Tuesday.

With home-court advantage on their side, Washington and Dallas look to stave off elimination in the first round.

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

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