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Mercury’s playoff picture blurry as WNBA season enters final weeks
- Updated: September 6, 2016
NEW YORK — There are two weeks left in the regular season and the WNBA playoff picture is quite blurry.
Minnesota and Los Angeles have clinched the top two seeds. Who gets the No. 1 is still up in the air. The Lynx and Sparks meet Tuesday night, with the winner getting the tiebreaker. New York needs one more win or Chicago loss to clinch the three seed.
After that it’s wide open, with four games separating fourth and 10th. The league couldn’t ask for a more exciting finish in its first season under a new format where the top eight teams regardless of conference affiliation make the postseason.
“We could easily not make the playoffs,” Diana Taurasi said after Phoenix dropped a second straight game Saturday to New York. “We need to play with a lot more urgency.”
While there is a lot of movement among the teams, the AP WNBA power poll had every team remain in the same spot for the first time all season this week.
POWER POLL
1. Minnesota (24-5): Getting home court throughout the playoffs would be huge for the Lynx. Also getting to rest some of their aging veterans in the final week would be big too.
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