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00:00It is the final day of the WNBA regular season game 40 for all 12 teams around the W tonight
00:10in unlike last year DRS 8 of the 12 teams making the postseason.
00:15We had four of those teams sub 500.
00:18It's more competitive basketball here throughout the WNBA campaign in 2024.
00:23We will show you what is at stake for the playoff seating tonight and all of those clinching
00:30scenarios where seven of the eight teams have already clinched a playoff spot and not much
00:36of the seating even among the top six really can change what is at stake is a battle between
00:43three organizations for the eighth and final playoff spot around the W.
00:49It's the Atlanta dream, the Chicago sky and the Washington Mystics all battling for that third and final spot.
00:56So here are the games a six way header.
01:00What do you say six?
01:01Is it cessed up?
01:02What sent up?
01:03What you know, if we're trying to do like quadruple triple header, what is it sex?
01:08Not what I think maybe.
01:10Yeah.
01:10Anyway, six games tonight for the WNBA final day of the regular season on this Thursday.
01:16So pay attention to some of these spreads in what is at stake.
01:22It is sex tough with sex tough.
01:23It doesn't feel right saying it out of my mouth to be honest with you.
01:26Anyway, the Connecticut Sun 13 and a half point home favorite against the Chicago Scott the New York Liberty only a point favorite against the dream.
01:36Why we're not expected or a point underdog.
01:38Excuse me.
01:39We're not expected to see many stories for New York as the Liberty already have clinched the top overall spot in the WNBA standings and
01:46during the postseason home for Advantage throughout and the dream need a win to get in to the playoffs.
01:54The Mystics two-point home favorite against Indiana the fever their first playoff birth since 2016.
02:00They've already clinched the number six seed based on tiebreakers with Phoenix the links three and a half point home favorite against the Sparks
02:07who have already been eliminated the Aces two-point home underdog DRS and a very difficult place to go into and win.
02:14It's going to be in the Michelob Ultra Arena there on the strip, but Dallas even against Dallas who is out of postseason consideration.
02:22That is intriguing in the storm take on the Mercury tonight as well.
02:27Those are the six games.
02:29We'll tell you the playoffs scenarios in just a moment.
02:32I'll tell you the worst case scenario to and again, you do this to yourself as a basketball team.
02:36But if your scoreboard watching out there you go.
02:38All right.
02:39Awesome.
02:40The dream got to play the Liberty the best team in the WNBA.
02:42It's like well, hold on.
02:43Now the dream are going to play the Liberty on their home court and probably walk away with a victory because the other team isn't playing here.
02:49You did it to yourself.
02:50But theoretically if both of those teams were saying, okay, we both want to win this game the dream probably get blown off the court.
02:55So shame on you of your scoreboard watching and you feel like you were wronged.
02:59Maybe should have won a game or two earlier in the season where you didn't have to scoreboard watch tonight.
03:04So that's the takeaway.
03:04But I do like the fact that everybody's playing tonight and there still is something up for grabs.
03:08It's nice.
03:09But also the teams that like the Liberty can clinch that number one seed.
03:13They've earned every right to sit everybody in this game and just get ready for the postseason.
03:18So when you look at the odds again, it should tell you a story.
03:22Let's start with the top Connecticut 13 and a half point home favorite are the Sunday night.
03:27They're a game in front of the Aces for what is the difference in the three to four spot on the standings?
03:34Why is that interesting?
03:35Chicago needs a victory to get into the postseason and unlike the Aces being a home dog in the Liberty being a slight home underdog.
03:43Connecticut is a hefty 13 and a half point favorite.
03:46They are trying to hold off Las Vegas for that better seed line as they have lost all three games to the Aces this year.
03:53If the Sun were to lose and the Aces were to win Las Vegas would get the three spot Connecticut the four based on tiebreaker.
04:01That could be intriguing for home floor Advantage throughout the postseason and your matchups as you go.
04:08I don't know if you want the three spot though, because you're going to take on Indiana in the fever are acts absolutely booming as we go through the end of this year.
04:17Here is what is at stake clinching scenarios for that eighth and final spot the dream the Mystics in the sky all in the running Atlanta when they are in all three of those teams lose the dream also make it the Mystics win.
04:31The dream and the sky both lose somehow some way Atlanta still earns the final playoff spot Washington and Chicago win the dream lose Washington gets in the sky.
04:43When the dream and the sticks lose Chicago gets in the sky have dropped four games in a row.
04:50They've lost four or five since Angel Reese announced that she would be out for the rest of the year with a wrist injury.
04:55She had surgery about a week and a half ago.
04:58Yeah, it looks like it's going to be it's tough to because you figured that we wanted the sky in there to make sure we got that superstar power and energizing the playoffs here, but it's just a bad break there.
05:07No pun intended at that point for Angel Reese.
05:09Hopefully she comes back next year stronger, but also we're waiting to see what the fever have man.
05:12Is this one of those teams that said, you know what?
05:14We're rested now after that Olympic break.
05:16Caitlin Clark's playing free basketball.
05:18What damage can they do in the playoffs?
05:19One thing we know Ben will be watching.
05:22We will be watching them out in the South going to the next.
05:27Yeah.