Ten days remain in the 2024 WNBA regular season, with every team scheduled to play four or five more games.
Although seven of the eight playoff berths have been claimed, much remains to be decided. As the Chicago Sky, Atlanta Dream and Washington Mystics battle for the eighth and final spot, the other seven squads will seek to solidify or improve their current playoff positioning. Here is where all 12 teams stand entering the final push:
1. New York Liberty (29-6)
clinched playoff berth
Remaining schedule: at Dallas (9/10), at Dallas (9/12), vs. Minnesota (9/15), at Washington (9/17), vs. Atlanta (9/19)
The Liberty appear poised to claim the No. 1 seed with relative ease. Barring a pair of out of character losses to the Wings, the result against the Lynx likely will not prove determinative. Unless New York chooses to engage in some serious seeding manipulation. With a 3-0 record against the Aces this season, the Liberty certainly believe that they are the superior team. Yet, have last year’s Finals been totally forgotten? Could ghosts from Game 4 materialize in a potential second-round series against Vegas? New York could avoid all that by dropping down the the No. 2 seed, likely setting them up for a second-round series against the Sun, a team that they’ve mostly…
