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The VNBA PLAY-OF They are finally here. The best of the three first rounds opens on a week with four games.
Top four seeds have the advantage of the domestic court, but road teams want to steal a game 1 win. The Gold State of Walkiries History made as the first extension team to play playoffs in their inaugural season. The Indiana feverthey did not have Caitlin Clark In the court of 15. July overcome five injuries of seasonal seasons. Defense champion New York Liberty They are also difficult to affect injuries. And the Seattle Storm reached postsesons despite the second half.
How will everything be played? What are the most looking forward games, which players can increase, which matches will have the most influence? ESPN is broken what to expect – and will bring an analysis of postgamen here during the week.
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Weekly schedule
13:00 and (ABC) Br. 8 Seeds Gold State of Walkiries on no. 1 seed Minnesota Link
3. PM I (ESPN) Br. 6 Seeds Indiana fever on no. 3 Seeds Atlanta Dream
17:00 (ESPN) Br. 5 Seeds New York Liberty on no. 4 Seeds Phoenix Merkur
22:00 I (ESPN) Br. 7 Seeds Seattle Storm In no. 2 seeds Las Vegas Aces
Which single Metver are most looking forward to seeing on Sunday?
Kevin Pelton: New York’s Breanna Stewart vs. Phoenix’s Alissa Thomas. This match itself is nothing new – Stewart’s Liberty Beat Thomas’ Connecticut Sun In 2023 semifinals – but the Mercury Spacing is a different challenge for New York in Slowing Thomas.
Kendra Andrews: I look at the same game as Pelton but a different match: Thomas v. New York Jonkuel Jones. They both have greatness, but one game with a little more finish, and the other with a lot of strength and forces down. I think the New York coach Sandi Brondello and Phoenix’s Nate Tibbetts arranged these players – and how they perform – dictate games.
Alexa Philippou: There are several big ones in the fever. In Backcourt battle, Kelsei Mitchell Have a historical season for Indiana, while Atlanta is Allisha Gray had a caliber season in the first team of All-VNBA – and former number 1 Rhine Howard Comploses the dream keeper of one two guards. Brionna Jones (and Brittney Grins) vs. Aliyah Boston is also a fun battle down. It’s a revanchue from last year’s first circle (when Jones still plays the sun), when Boston had the upper hand.
Otherwise, the front talent in Storm-ACES will see a meeting with appointment A’ja Wilson playing at the holiday level and in Seattlo are settled with likes Popus toys, Good manager and up and comes Dominique Malonga. Will the storm be able to slow Wilson down?
Which game is most excited to see on Sunday?
Pelton: New York vs. Phoenix. Both of these teams expected to have a deep playoff in the entire season, but will face elimination game 2. Neither wants to be in that situation, especially with difficult travel between each game in this series.
Andrews: The sternard power in Phoenix-New York just has to watch basketball. The Roster Branning Champion contains Breanna Stewart, Sabrina IonescuJones, Emma Meesseman and Natasha Cloud (to apply several). Mercury has Thomasa, Satou Sabal, Kahleah copper and Devanna Bonner. The fact that there is so much in the cube there is a series more intriguing.
Philippou: There are a lot of acquaintance between Las Vegas and Seattle, which has also faced playoffs 2020, 2022 and 2024. And it was before Jewell Loid It was traded from the storm to this last off-season consequence when her term in an emerald city did not end with the best respect. Las Vegas was red hot in August and September, while Seattle was extremely inconsistent. Can the storm, desperately win your first post-season victory from Sue birds in retirement, make things interesting in Vegas and this series as a whole?
What priorities are you most excited to watch to play these postseason?
Michael Voepel: The dream was probably overlooked between toy teams, but they shouldn’t be. They are a far better team offensive than last season, when they are on average on average 77.0 PPG, especially behind the port. So, it will be interesting to see how many sleep played in postsesons when they misplaced them could be further than since 2018. Years. Their series with Indian is intriguing while teams have shared their four playing games of the regular season.
Philippou: I’m fascinated to see what freedom looks like in the playoffs. Their Repeating the offer has disappearedTo a great extent due to injuries, but fair is to say that they are lower this season.
Now their way to the finals returning incredibly hard and will not happen to the advantage of the domestic court all postseason. With its big three healthy and Meesemaman in Mix, will Freedom look like the dominant team we saw at the beginning of the season – or will shocking early cry? And what would an early exit meant to refer in 2026 and beyond?
Pelton: I’m fascinated by the Aces. They don’t make sense. Recognition of the regular season is now 44 games, other teams that have compiled long winning stripes had single-digit losses, not starting down at .500 such as Las Vegas. (For 2014, VNBA Champion Phoenix Mercuri, for example, won 16 consecutive matches in the regular season, where they were 29-5.) And partly due to the loss of 53 points per RIS, the ACs still had only the fifth-best VNBA differential. I believe Las Vegas improved the championship competitor, but we don’t know how to playoffs.
Predicting the playoffs for the first rounding
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Who should win VNBA MVP this season?
Monica Mcnutt explains why this season VNBA MVP races so close between A’JA Wilson and Naphees Collier.
Top 25 Players in VNBA Playoffs and Red Hot MVP Race
Earlier this week, espn Ranked the best players In the postsetzone. Then the most important two players in the list – MVP frontal runners Napheesa Collier And there Wilson – went out and closed a regular season on even more high notes on the jaws as they made their final cases for MVP.
On Thursday in the final game before playoffs, Wilson had 23 points and 19 rebounds to lead Aces in their 16th consecutive winwhich slid seed no. 2 for Las Vegas. The triple MVP has completed the regular season on average VNBA-BEST 23.4 points per game.
Earlier in the night, Collier hit 3 of 4 3-pointers to raise the percentage of shooting behind the bow enough enough Become another player in VNBA history To register 50/40/90 season – hitting 53.1% of its shots from the floor, 40.3% from the range of 3 points and 90.6% from the free throw line. Collier, who still has not won his first MVP award, joined Elena Delle Donne (2019) in the shooting books, but the first player has achieved the feats on average over 20 points. (Average is 22.9 points.)
