{"id":767284,"date":"2026-06-22T03:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/767284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T03:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T03:27:18","slug":"recap-mystics-beat-lynx-on-fathers-day-84-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/767284\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Mystics beat Lynx on Father\u2019s Day, 84-79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics have the youngest team in the WNBA. And they have now moved above .500 by defeating two championship contenders in back-to-back games. On Friday, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics\/70788\/washington-mystics-new-york-liberty-wnba-game-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated the New York Liberty<\/a> 86-83. And now, they defeated the Minnesota Lynx, the team currently leading in the standings, 84-79. Better yet, the Mystics are now above .500 with an 8-7 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tonight\u2019s game featured 11 lead changes, seven ties and neither team led by more than than 10 points. Not surprisingly, it was the Lynx. Minnesota also headed into halftime with a 42-35 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">But in the fourth quarter, Washington stabilized and dominated in the fourth quarter, holding Minnesota to just 31.2 percent shooting and outscored them 28-19. Along the way, they chipped away at the lead with plays like these below. Take a look at Cotie McMahon showing her marksmanship when the Mystics needed her most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Lynx were still leading with just seconds left. But Kiki Iriafen took care of business with this shot which gave the Mystics the lead for good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Iriafen scored 17 points for Washington with Sonia Citron leading the team in scoring with 21 points. McMahon scored 15 off the bench. For the Lynx, Olivia Miles led with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics are above .500 again and now have multiple signature wins in the past week. Their next game is on Wednesday when they \u2026 HOST \u2026 the Lynx. Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET. Hopefully the Mystics can give AJ Dybantsa (\u2026 or whoever the Washington Wizards draft on Tuesday) a warm welcome with a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics have the youngest team in the WNBA. And they have now moved above .500 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,4518,468,30656,3892,683],"class_list":["post-767284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-washington","tag-washington-mystics","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washington-mystics-recaps","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116791636396484142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767284","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=767284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}