Lynx face Liberty in first round of WNBA playoffs on Sunday

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

The Minnesota Lynx had a magical regular season, entering the WNBA playoffs as the No. 1 seed for the second consecutive season. However, just like last year, their quest for a WNBA title ended in heartbreak. On Tuesday night, the Lynx were swept out of the playoffs by the No. 8 seed New York Liberty. After stealing Game 1 in Minnesota, the Liberty […] The post Lynx news: Kayla McBride gives props to Minnesota Big 3 after sweep by Liberty appeared first on ClutchPoints.

NEW YORK — All season, the New York Liberty talked about the type of team they could be. Explosive offensively. Connected on defense. A well-oiled machine on a collision course with their second WNBA title in three years. They showed glimpses of it. Including during a stretch in late May and early June that led to their Commissioner’s Cup title. But for the rest of the regular season, they were an inconsistent shell of that team. This week a new season started, the postseason, and that brought w

New York are first No 8 seed to beat first seed Liberty ease to 2-0 series victory over Minnesota Jonquel Jones had 21 points and 13 rebounds and the No 8 seed New York Liberty beat the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx 87-71 in Game 2 of their WNBA playoff series on Tuesday night to advance to the semi-finals. Breanna Stewart added 21 points and Sabrina Ionescu had 18 to help the Liberty become the first No 8 seed to eliminate a No 1 seed in the league’s 30-year history. The WNBA has undergone a number of different playoff formats, and in many of them, it wasn’t possible for those seeds to match up. However, in 2022 the league changed to the current iteration in which the top-eight teams play in the quarter-finals. Continue reading...

Jonquel Jones had 21 points and 13 rebounds and the No. 8 seed New York Liberty beat the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx 87-71 in Game 2 of their WNBA playoff series Tuesday night and advanced to the semifinal round.

The New York Liberty have a chance to finish off the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx when the teams meet Tuesday night in Game 2 of their first-round WNBA playoff series. How to Watch Lynx vs Liberty New York stunned Minnesota with…

Here's how to tune in to the Lynx vs. Liberty game tonight during the 2026 WNBA playoffs.

The first round of the 2026 WNBA Playoffs is finally here! All four of the series in the quarterfinals will tip off on Sunday one right after the other. The action begins with one of the league’s best playoff matchups between the Liberty and Lynx. Minnesota and New York have been two of the W’s most dominant teams over the past few seasons. But […] The post Lynx vs. Liberty bold predictions for 2026 WNBA Playoffs appeared first on ClutchPoints.

The 2026 WNBA playoffs get underway on Sunday with four first-round series

The Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty will meet in the first-round of the 2026 WNBA playoffs, their first postseason game since the 2024 WNBA Finals.

Just seven games separate the No. 1 seed Lynx and No. 8 seed Liberty, the smallest gap since the playoff format changed

Our writers pick the champion, key players and dark horses as the WNBA postseason tips off on Sunday At least big-picture, as the end of one era of the league and the beginning of another, in part because of Cathy Engelbert’s announcement earlier this month that she will step down as commissioner at the end of this year. It’s fair to say this season has been a microcosm of her up-and-down seven-year tenure: more growth than ever, excellent basketball, breakthroughs for a new generation of stars, and high highs, but also low lows – refereeing controversies and manufactured culture-war hysterics chief among them. EB Continue reading...

Our writers pick the champion, key players and dark horses as the WNBA postseason tips off on Sunday

The WNBA playoffs tips off this weekend with four dynamic matchups. Let's dig in.

The mad dash to seeding after the World Cup break proved that the next month will be tense, chaotic and full of good postseason basketball. Here's what we're looking out for.

The stage is set for this year’s WNBA playoffs after the final day of the regular season on Thursday. Some of the first-round matchups were not decided until the last minute. The Minnesota Lynx, who secured the No. 1 seed on Tuesday, will face the New York Liberty. It will be a rematch of the 2024 WNBA Finals, wherein the Liberty finally captured […] The post WNBA news: Lynx-Liberty, Aces-Fever headline first-round playoff matchups appeared first on ClutchPoints.

The Lynx know their first-round date … and it’s a familiar one. Minnesota will battle New York in Round 1, with Game 1 of the best-of-3 series set for Sunday at Target Center. The Liberty locked themselves into the No. 8 seed with a loss to Atlanta on Wednesday. New York, who edged the Lynx in the dramatic, controversial WNBA Finals in 2024, won two of its three regular season matchups with ...