{"id":728514,"date":"2026-05-08T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/728514\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:36:10","slug":"preview-mystics-begin-2026-season-against-tempo-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/728514\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Mystics begin 2026 season against Tempo on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Washington Mystics begin the 2026 WNBA regular season tomorrow against the Toronto Tempo. Let\u2019s preview this one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When: Friday, May 8, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Where: Coca-Cola Coliseum, Toronto, ON<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Injuries: For the Mystics, Cotie McMahon is out due to an elbow injury. The Tempo have no injuries to report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Mystics will begin their 2026 WNBA regular season campaign against the Tempo for Toronto\u2019s inaugural game as a franchise. They are led by former Mystics guard Brittney Sykes and former Connecticut Sun guard Marina Mabrey, who will be the initial foundation for this team. Washington will rely heavily on Sonia Citron, Kiki Iriafen and Shakira Austin as their foundation, which is one of the youngest in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For Tempo fans, this is a chance for them to see WNBA basketball for the first time watching a hometown team where they will have a good chance to come out with a win. For the Mystics, this is a chance to end a 10 game losing streak to end the 2025 regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics begin the 2026 WNBA regular season tomorrow against the Toronto Tempo. Let\u2019s preview this one.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,4518,37843,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-728514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-mystics-game-preview","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116536395925908118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}