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How to buy Minnesota Lynx vs Connecticut Sun WNBA playoff tickets

Want to watch the Lynx take on the Sun in person? Limited tickets remain for this WNBA Playoff semifinal matchup.

With the Minnesota Lynx possibly ending Diana Taurasi’s storied basketball career, the 2024 WNBA playoff semifinals are set.

The Lynx dispatched the Sun in two games and will meet the Connecticut Sun who similarly ended the Indiana Fever’s season in a two-game sweep.

On Sunday, the Lynx and Sun will square off for what should be a very entertaining best-of-five game playoff series.

Limited tickets remain for each game.

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Minnesota Lynx vs Connecticut Sun playoff schedule

Game 1: Sun @ Lynx – Sunday, Sept. 29 at 8:30 p.m. ET – Buy tickets

Game 2: Sun @ Lynx – Tuesday, Oct. 1, time TBA – Buy tickets

Game 3: Lynx @ Sun – Friday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET – Buy tickets

Game 4: Lynx @ Sun – Sunday, Oct. 6, time TBA (if necessary) – Buy tickets

Game 5: Sun @ Lynx – Tuesday, Oct. 8, time TBA (if necessary) – Buy tickets

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Minnesota Lynx vs Connecticut Sun ticket prices

As of publication, here are the cheapest tickets available to each game in the Lynx vs. Sun playoff series:

Game 1: $72

Game 2: $76

Game 3: $86

Game 4: $72 (if necessary)

Game 5: $115 (if necessary)

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WNBA Playoff schedule

Sunday, Sept. 29:

  • Aces @ Liberty – Game 1 – 3 p.m. ET
  • Sun @ Lynx – Game 1 – 8:30 p.m. ET

Tuesday, Oct. 1:

  • Sun @ Lynx – Game 2 – time TBA
  • Aces @ Liberty – Game 2 – time TBA

Friday, Oct 4:

  • Lynx @ Sun – Game 3 – 7:30 p.m. ET
  • Liberty @ Aces – Game 3 – 9:30 p.m. ET

Sunday, Oct 6:

  • Lynx @ Sun – Game 4 – time TBA (if necessary)
  • Liberty @ Aces – Game 4 – time TBA (if necessary)

Tuesday, Oct 8:

  • Sun @ Lynx – Game 5 – time TBA (if necessary)
  • Aces @ Liberty – Game 5 – time TBA (if necessary)

The WNBA Finals do not yet have a scheduled start date, and will begin following the conclusion of both semifinal series.

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Alyssa Thomas calls on WNBA to help keep players safe from excessive fan abuse

Alyssa Thomas has asked the WNBA to step in over the abuse received from some fans.

Alyssa Thomas isn’t here for any unhinged behavior from fans.

All season long, there have been numerous instances of people claiming to be supporters of the WNBA harassing fans and even players. This behavior has permeated hoops circles and oozed out of social media into real life. The abuse has turned into racism, bigotry and things well beyond basketball.

The Connecticut Sun have been on the receiving end of the unhinged activity, and star center Alyssa Thomas called it out after a playoff game and particularly spoke about how some fans are not helping. Here’s what she told the media:

“Honestly, it’s been a lot of nonsense. I think in my eleven-year career, I’ve never experienced the racial comments from the Indiana Fever fanbase. We had [DiJonai Carrington’s] face on a serious matter that happened in this world, and it’s unacceptable, honestly…and there’s no place for it.”

“We’ve been professional throughout the whole entire thing. But I’ve never been called the things that I’ve been called on social media, and there’s no place for it…Basketball is headed in a great direction, but nah. We don’t want fans that are gonna degrade us and call us racial names…”

“We come to play basketball for our job, and it’s fun. But we don’t want to go to work every day and have social media blown up over things like that. It’s uncalled for, and something needs to be done, whether it’s them checking their fans or this league checking…There’s no more time for it.”

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DiJonai Carrington and Marina Mabrey’s enemies to friends redemption arc is the best

This is the BEST plot twist.

Given the history, it’s still hard to comprehend Marina Mabrey and DiJonai Carrington on the same team. But their redemption arc is fantastic, and I’m totally here for it.

Marina and DiJonai weren’t exactly friends before her trade to the Connecticut Sun. They have a well-documented history of jawing at one another and getting very spicy — so spicy that fans created hysterical memes about them having to get along. But on Wednesday, we saw why Marina and DiJonai have worked so well together.

For context, DiJonai was doing everything that earned her Most Improved Player honors (steals, deflections, big shots), and when the Sun needed it most, Marina showed why the Sun traded for her. As Connecticut and the Indiana Fever were in a down-to-the-wire playoff game, she launched the COLDEST dagger 3-point shot, ending the Fever’s season.

Marina’s clutch shot had DiJonai totally hyped, and the pair pulled out Carmelo Anthony’s famous 3-point celebration on the sideline.

After the game, Marina and DiJonai were still hyping each other up, and it was actually pretty fantastic. This is wholesome activity, and I love it.

Fans were all in on Marina and DiJonai as well. Here’s what they said:

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Former Notre Dame great Marina Mabrey ends Caitlin Clark’s season

Mabrey next year, rook.

Caitlin Clark has been playing basketball almost nonstop for nearly a year, and that finally has come to an end. A lot of it at the end had to do with former Notre Dame guard [autotag]Marina Mabrey[/autotag].

The Connecticut Sun acquired Mabrey from the Chicago Sky during the season, and that move has paid off so far. Mabrey scored 17 points as the Sun swept Clark’s Indiana Fever out of the first round of the WNBA playoffs with an 87-81 Game 2 victory.

Mabrey, starting in place of the injured Tyasha Harris, shot only 3 of 10 from 3-point range during the game, but she made two big ones late. One of them came as an answer to one from Clark, who led all scorers with 25 points:

A few minutes later, with the Fever’s season hanging in the balance, Mabrey hit from downtown again to squash any doubts that this game would end in the Sun’s favor:

Mabrey performed spectacularly in the two-game sweep. She led all scorers with 27 points off the bench in Game 1.

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An unruly fan seemingly taunting Caitlin Clark stopped game play during Fever-Sun

You just don’t want to see moments like this during sporting events.

Wednesday night’s WNBA playoff game between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun featured an unexpected stoppage in time involving a seemingly unruly fan.

At the end of the game’s first quarter, play stopped so that security at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Arena could identify and possibly remove the fan in question from the crowd.

The fan in question seemingly got into a verbal altercation with Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark, who looked to have alerted the referees to take action against said fan.

Whatever was said to Clark by this unruly fan seemingly caused her Fever teammate NaLyssa Smith to be taken aback in shock.

The moment also seemed to sparked words between Clark and Sun superstar forward DeWanna Bonner, who had a brief skirmish earlier in the game.

These are the types of moments you just don’t want to see at professional sporting events, and you just hope the stadium staff addressed this promptly and firmly.

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Caitlin Clark and DeWanna Bonner got into a brief shirmish after exchanging words over a possible foul

Things got a little heated between Caitlin Clark and DeWanna Bonner.

During Wednesday night’s WNBA playoff game between the Connecticut Sun and Indiana Fever, two superstars got into a brief skirmish, possibly over a missed foul.

After Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark felt that Sun veteran forward DeWanna Bonner fouled her on a basket attempt, Clark tried to make her case to the officiating crew.

Bonner didn’t seem thrilled with that, and the two started arguing with each other and briefly tangled with each other on the court.

Being that this is a win-or-go-home situation for the Fever, you can see why the emotions were high for both teams.

You don’t often see two marquee players like this get heated during a playoff game, but that was the case for Clark and Bonner, if ever so briefly.

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DiJonai Carrington wins 2024 WNBA Most Improved Player honors after stellar season

DiJonai Carrington’s stellar season continues with Most Improved Player honors.

DiJonai Carrington is the 2024 WNBA Most Improved Player, and she deserves every bit of praise that comes with that honor.

Carrington was inserted into the Connecticut Sun’s starting lineup, and the rest is history. All season long, she’s been a pest on both sides of the ball, daring opponents to ask her to shoot 3-point buckets, get downhill to the basket or get caught sleeping so she could block a shot into oblivion and pick a pocket faster than lightning.

The 5-foot-11 guard averaged career highs in points, rebounds and assists and had a career-high in 25 games with 10 or more points. On defense, her career-high numbers in steals per game elevated her to ninth in the WNBA and pushed Connecticut’s defense to third in steals per contest. With DiJonai as one of the Sun’s driving forces, the team lead the league in fewest points allowed (73.6 per game) and defensive rating (94.1). Simply put, her signature seat belt celebration is WELL-EARNED.

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Here’s DiJonai’s reaction to winning her award:

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Caitlin Clark refused to blame underwhelming game on DiJonai Carrington’s accidental eye poke

“I felt like we just played a crappy game.”

Caitlin Clark had the most Caitlin Clark response ever to accidentally being poked in the eye by DiJonai Carrington.

As playoff basketball goes, things get intense and physical. That includes Clark accidentally knocking out Carrington’s contact lens during a first-round Fever-Sun playoff matchup and Carrington accidentally hitting Clark in the eye during the same game.

But Caitlin knows that it’s part of basketball and postgame, she didn’t make any excuses when asked about it. (Clark finished the game with just 11 points and eight rebounds on 23 percent shooting and 2-of-13 from distance.) This is what she told the media about the accidental eye poke:

“Obviously, got me pretty good in the eye. I don’t think it affected me. I felt like I got good shots; they just didn’t go down. Obviously, a tough time for that to happen…”

“I felt like we just played a crappy game. The flow of the game was really bad…Overall, it didn’t bother me. Obviously, it didn’t feel too good when it happened. But it is what it is.”

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Caitlin Clark scored her first career WNBA playoff points on a tough reverse layup

Caitlin Clark has her first points of the WNBA playoffs.

Fresh off being named the unanimous AP Rookie of the Year and finishing fourth in MVP voting, Caitlin Clark scored her first career playoff points Sunday.

With the Indiana Fever visiting the Connecticut Sun in Game 1 of their first-round series, Clark connected on a tough reverse layup near the end of the first quarter for her first bucket of the postseason.

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The score wasn’t all that different from Clark’s first career regular-season bucket, which also came on a drive from the right.

Though the points tied the game for the Fever, Connecticut eventually pulled away for a 24-point win. The under cashed on all of Clark’s props for the game, as the rookie struggled in her playoff debut. She finished with 11 points on 4-of-17 shooting, including 2-of-13 from three, four rebounds and eight assists.

Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever’s WNBA Playoffs foe set

Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever’s WNBA Playoffs matchup is set.

Caitlin Clark’s first trip to the WNBA Playoffs is now set.

The Indiana Fever have been locked in as the No. 6 seed since topping the Dallas Wings 110-109 last Sunday. But, Indiana was awaiting the finalization of its first-round foe.

After Thursday’s results, Clark and the Fever now know their first-round fate. Indiana will square off against No. 3 seed Connecticut after the Sun dispatched of Chicago in their regular season finale, 87-54.

Indiana (20-20) closed its regular season with a 92-91 loss at the Washington Mystics in a game that broke the all-time WNBA attendance record with 20,711 fans taking in the finale.

Clark and the other Fever starters sat for much of the regular season finale. No Indiana starter played more than 21 minutes.

Indiana’s best-of-three series versus the Connecticut Sun opens up on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m. CT on ABC from Mohegan Sun Arena. Game two is set for a 6:30 p.m. CT tipoff on ESPN on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

The if-necessary game three would shift over to Indiana and take place inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Friday, Sept. 27.

Indiana won one of the four matchups between the two teams this regular season. Connecticut topped Indiana 92-71 on May 14, 88-84 on May 20 and 89-72 on June 10.

The Fever won the most recent matchup, though. Indiana beat Connecticut 84-80 on Aug. 28 in a game where Clark knocked down a trio of 3-pointers and scored 19 points. Clark added five assists and five rebounds in the win.

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