{"id":151764,"date":"2018-08-22T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151764"},"modified":"2018-08-22T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T12:15:00","slug":"lynx-eliminated-wnba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=151764","title":{"rendered":"Lynx eliminated, WNBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-84884\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lynxlogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Chelsea Gray scored 26 points, helping the Los Angeles Sparks beat the defending champion Minnesota Lynx 75-68 on Tuesday night to advance to the second round of the WNBA playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fourth straight year Los Angeles and Minnesota have met in an elimination playoff game \u2014 with each team winning the past two WNBA championships. The Lynx hadn&#8217;t been eliminated in the first round since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>After Minnesota guard Maya Moore missed two free throws with 1:56 remaining, Gray sank a long jumper to extend Los Angeles&#8217; lead to 70-65. Minnesota turned it over on its next possession and Nneka Ogwumike hit two free throws.<\/p>\n<p>Temi Fagbenle made an open corner 3-pointer to pull Minnesota to 72-68 with 52.4 seconds to go, but Moore was off on a contested 3-pointer on their next possession and Ogwumike sealed it at the free-throw line.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth-seeded Los Angeles (20-15) will play at No. 3 seed Washington on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Chelsea Gray scored 26 points, helping the Los Angeles Sparks beat the defending champion Minnesota Lynx 75-68 on Tuesday night to advance to the second round of the WNBA playoffs. It was the fourth straight year Los Angeles and Minnesota have met in an elimination playoff [&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-151764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151765,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151764\/revisions\/151765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}