{"id":847050,"date":"2026-09-29T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/847050\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T23:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T23:48:18","slug":"preview-mystics-host-dream-in-game-2-of-playoff-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/847050\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Mystics host Dream in Game 2 of playoff series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Washington Mystics play the Atlanta Dream on Wednesday in Game 2 of their playoff series. Let\u2019s preview this one<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">When: Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Injuries: The Mystics don\u2019t have injuries to report. For the Dream, Matilde Villa and Brionna Jones are out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Mystics are behind in their playoff series against the Dream after losing last Sunday. While Washington started off on the right foot in the first half, a horrible third quarter led to a 92-77 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics\/73068\/washington-mystics-atlanta-dream-wnba-playoff-game-1-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">whooping for the Mystics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Wednesday is also significant because the Mystics haven\u2019t hosted a playoff game since Oct. 10, 2019 when they hosted the Connecticut Sun in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/mystics\/2019\/10\/10\/20905000\/mystics-vs-sun-game-5-final-score-washington-wins-wnba-championship-in-89-78-thriller\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game 5 of the WNBA Finals and won 89-78<\/a>. In that game nearly seven years ago, Emma Meesseman turned on the jets to clinch the series and give Washington their first ever championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The roster has turned over completely since then and this time, Washington is simply hosting a first round playoff game. Hopefully, the young Mystics will take care of business in this better-than-expected season so they can reach the second round and play some October playoff basketball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Mystics play the Atlanta Dream on Wednesday in Game 2 of their playoff series. Let\u2019s preview&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,4518,37843,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-847050","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\/117357006272724006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847050","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=847050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}