2024 WNBA Playoffs

2024 WNBA Playoffs

Dates	September 22 – October 20[1]
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The 2024 WNBA Playoffs will the postseason tournament of the WNBA's 2024 season. The playoffs will begin on September 22, 2024, and will finish by October 20, 2024.^[2]

• The Las Vegas Aces entered the postseason for the sixth consecutive season.
• The New York Liberty entered the postseason for the fourth consecutive season.
• The Connecticut Sun entered the postseason for the eighth consecutive season, currently the longest streak in the WNBA.
• The Minnesota Lynx entered the postseason for the second consecutive season.
• The Phoenix Mercury returned to the postseason after missing the postseason in 2023.
• The Seattle Storm returned to the postseason after missing the postseason in 2023.
• The Indiana Fever entered the postseason for the first time since 2016, breaking their seven-season playoff drought.
• The Dallas Wings missed the postseason for the first season, after making the postseason the previous three editions.
• The Los Angeles Sparks missed the postseason for the fourth consecutive season, the longest active postseason drought in the WNBA.

• The Indiana Fever broke their playoff drought, which was the longest in the WNBA, at seven seasons.

The 2024 Playoffs continued to use the format that the WNBA Board of Governors approved prior to the 2022 season. In November 2021, the WNBA Board of Governors formalized a new playoff system that will structure the 2022 playoffs onward. The new playoff format scraps the single-elimination games of the first two rounds in favor of a best-of-3 quarterfinal round. As a result, all eight playoff teams, seeded according to overall regular season record regardless of conference (1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6, 4 vs. 5), will begin postseason play in the first round. Since 2016, seeds 3 and 4 received a bye to the second round (single game) and seeds 1 and 2 received a bye to the semifinals (best-of-5). In the first round series, the higher seeded team will host games 1 and 2, and the lower seeded team will host game 3 if necessary. In the semifinal round, no reseeding will take place, which means the winners of the 1 vs. 8 series will be paired with the winner of the 4 vs. 5 series as will the winners of the 2 vs. 7 and 3 vs. 6 series. The semifinal and final rounds will remain best-of-5 series in which the higher seeded team hosts games 1, 2 and (if necessary) 5 while the lower seeded team hosts games 3 and (if necessary) 4.^[3]

All games will be aired across the ESPN family of networks, which includes ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC in the US.

As of games on September 15, 2024

Seed	Team	Record	Clinched
			Playoff berth	Top Record
1	New York Liberty		August 17[4]
2	Minnesota Lynx		August 24[5]
3	Connecticut Sun		August 24[6]
4	Las Vegas Aces		August 30[7]
5	Seattle Storm		August 30[8]
6	Indiana Fever		September 3[9]
7	Phoenix Mercury		September 3[10]
8	TBD

	Round One: Best-of-3					Semifinals: Best-of-5					Finals: Best-of-5
	1
	8
	4
	5
	2
	7	Phoenix Mercury
	3
	6	Indiana Fever

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