With less than a week left in the 2024 WNBA regular season, a single postseason seed remains up for grabs. The Chicago Sky (13-25) and Atlanta Dream (13-25) are two teams that are still in the hunt for that playoff berth; they’ll meet for the fourth and final time this Tuesday, Sept. 17, with tip-off scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET.
Neither the Sky (2-8 in their last 10 games) nor the Dream (3-7) have played at the level they’d have liked in recent weeks, and while the two teams have been right up against each other in the standings for quite some time now, neither one has been able to make a definitive move. This sets up a must-win scenario on Tuesday, particularly for the Dream. They currently trail the Sky in their season series, two games to one, and they’ll need to even that up to have a chance in the event of a tiebreaker.
It’s also important to note that the Sky look significantly different than they did when they last played the Dream on July 10. Chicago has since sent starting guard Marina Mabrey to Connecticut via trade and lost star rookie Angel Reese—whose 13.1 rebounds per game lead the WNBA—to a season-ending wrist injury.
The Sky have one win since Reese’s injury and have fallen into an eighth-place tie with the Washington Mystics, who own the…
