{"id":179786,"date":"2019-09-12T07:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=179786"},"modified":"2019-09-12T07:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:19:07","slug":"lynx-eliminated-from-wnba-in-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=179786","title":{"rendered":"Lynx eliminated from WNBA in playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84884\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>EVERETT, Wash. (AP) \u2014 Jordin Canada scored a career-high 26 points and the defending WNBA champion Seattle Storm beat the seventh-seeded Minnesota Lynx 84-74 Wednesday night in a first-round, winner-take-all playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>With Jewell Loyd adding 22 points, the No. 6 Storm, who play at third-seeded Los Angeles on Sunday in the single-elimination second round, got 48 out of their backcourt. Minnesota had one point from starting guards Odyssey Sims and Danielle Robinson. Mercedes Russell contributed 13 points for Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvia Fowles scored inside with 5:52 to play in the fourth quarter to pull Minnesota within 71-67. The Lynx then went nine straight possessions without scoring. By the time Napheesa Collier made a free throw with 1:11 to play, Seattle was up 76-68.<\/p>\n<p>Damiris Dantas led the Lynx with 20 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVERETT, Wash. (AP) \u2014 Jordin Canada scored a career-high 26 points and the defending WNBA champion Seattle Storm beat the seventh-seeded Minnesota Lynx 84-74 Wednesday night in a first-round, winner-take-all playoff game. With Jewell Loyd adding 22 points, the No. 6 Storm, who play at third-seeded Los Angeles on Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179787,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179786\/revisions\/179787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}