Keep track of the opening round of the 2025 WNBA Playoffs, featuring the defending champion New York Liberty taking on the Phoenix Mercury.

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Emma Meesseman joined the New York Liberty midseason, and if they're going to repeat as champions, Meesseman is crucial to their success.

The New York Liberty were so injury-riddled that the starters played only 12 full games together during the regular season.

Here’s a WNBA story via the Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — With 2 1/2 weeks left in the ... The popularity explosion in women’s college basketball, spurred initially by the Caitlin Clark-Angel Reese rivalry, carried over to the WNBA last season ...

One more to go. The New York Liberty closed out the home portion of their schedule with a tidy 75-66 win over the Washington Mystics on Tuesday night. The opponent tonight is trying to get to the offseason as quickly as possible.

The 2025 WNBA season was the longest in league history at 44 games per team. There's a good chance the 2025 Finals is the longest ever, too. In addition to altering the first-round schedule, the league extended the Finals from a best-of-five series to a best-of-seven.

The New York Liberty won their first-ever WNBA championship in 2024. It's been a rough road, but don't count them out for 2025.

Last year's New York Liberty finished an on-court journey that Tari Phillips, Teresa Weatherspoon and more began back at the turn of the century. Now, the modern bearers of seafoam are looking to reach the final destination of off-court goals their ...

The Phoenix Mercury's loss to the Los Angeles Sparks means the Mercury open the postseason against the New York Liberty on Sunday, Sept. 14.