エースs clinch 最高の，を越す seed in postseason, Liberty finish second
NEW YORK (AP) - A'ja Wilson and the Las Vegas エースs will have homecourt advantage throughout the WNBA プレーオフs - a place they only lost once during the 正規の／正選手 season.
The defending 支持する／優勝者s wrapped up the 最高の，を越す seed in the postseason before they even stepped on the 法廷，裁判所 Sunday by virtue of New York's last-second loss to Washington. It wouldn't have 事柄d if the Liberty won that game because the エースs （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 不死鳥／絶品 to finish the 正規の／正選手 season 34-6.
"If you had said 34-6 to me 支援する in May, I would have jumped at that in a second," Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon said. "And here we are. The 量 of energy and 成果／努力 they put into 存在 professionals, their approach to the game - they were so good."
Las Vegas will open up the best-of-three first 一連の会議、交渉／完成する series Wednesday night against eighth-seeded Chicago, which enters the postseason for a fifth straight year.
The other half of Las Vegas' bracket features fourth-seeded Dallas against No. 5 Atlanta. The Dream ended up in a three-way tie with Minnesota and Washington in the standings, but earned the fifth-seed through tiebreakers. The Wings-Dream matchup begins Friday night.
The Lynx will play at Connecticut on Wednesday night to open up that series.
Las Vegas エースs 今後 A'ja Wilson (22) celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing a basket against the 不死鳥／絶品 水銀柱，温度計 during the first half of a WNBA basketball game Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, in Las Vegas. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun 経由で AP)
The second-seeded Liberty play Washington on Friday night. The two teams played a thriller to 結論する the 正規の／正選手 season on Sunday that ended when Brittney Sykes put in a 高く弓形に打ち返す at the buzzer to 解除する the Mystics to a 90-88 勝利，勝つ.
"We 手配中の，お尋ね者 to send a message that you are going to have to see us all series long," Mystics guard Natasha Cloud said. "関わりなく the 傷害s, 関わりなく whatever - you´ve got to go through a really good team still and a team that´s hungry, a team 十分な of dogs. ... So we just 手配中の，お尋ね者 to make ourselves known and let it be known that this is going to be a really good series."
The プレーオフ 判型 for the second 連続した year will have the better-seeded team hosting the first two games with a 決定的な third game on the lower seeds 法廷，裁判所 if necessary. The games are more spread out with four days between the first two contests of each matchup. Last season only had three days between games.
Seattle, 不死鳥／絶品, Indiana and Los Angeles 行方不明になるd the プレーオフs.
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