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With less than a month left in the WNBA regular season, the Minnesota Lynx have a firm lock on the top seed in the playoffs. The rest of the postseason picture still is up in the air, with more than half the league jockeying for positioning.
Highlights: Storm snag playoff spot with tight win
Relive the top highlights from Tuesday night's slate of WNBA games, including a thriller between the Storm and Valkyries, a win from the Fever against the Lynx and another tight game between the Mercury and Sparks.

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    Paige Bueckers was named Kia WNBA Rookie of the Year.
    While her team struggled, Bueckers had an exceptional rookie campaign. The Wings guard averaged 19.2 points, 5.4 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game while shooting 47.4 percent from the field and 88.8 percent from the foul line. Bueckers, who led all rookies in points and assists (totals and averages), was named an All-Star Game starter and won three WNBA Rookie of the Month awards. She received 70 of the 72 first-place votes, with Washington’s Sonia Citron receiving the other two. Bueckers is the third Rookie of the Year winner in Shock/Wings franchise history, with Cheryl Ford winning in 2003 and Allisha Gray in 2017.
  • Sonia Citron finished her rookie season with 13 points (5-of-12 FGs), four rebounds, four assists, three steals and three three-pointers in Tuesday’s loss to the Liberty.
    Citron capped her rookie campaign with another solid stat line and should be one of the top vote-getters for Rookie of the Year. Despite the Mystics missing out on the postseason, the franchise has identified two critical building blocks for the future in Citron and fellow rookie Kiki Iriafen. The former Notre Dame guard played in all 44 games, reaching double figures in scoring in 38. A late-round pick in most fantasy drafts before this season began, Citron should be a popular option in 2026.
  • Sonia Citron accumulated 17 points (6-of-9 FGs, 3-of-4 FTs), one rebound, one steal and two three-pointers in Sunday’s loss to the Fever.
    The home portion of Washington’s 2025 schedule ended disappointingly, but the franchise has two excellent building blocks in rookies Citron and Kiki Iriafen. The former made some history on Sunday, breaking Brittney Skykes’ Mystics’ single-season scoring record. However, it should be noted that Citron played three more games than Sykes did in 2023, as the WNBA schedule expanded from 40 to 44 games with the addition of Golden State. Asterisk or not, this has been an excellent debut season for the Mystics guard, who has firmly established herself as a key cog in the franchise’s rebuild.
  • Kiki Iriafen tallied 18 points (8-of-19 FGs, 2-of-2 FTs), 13 rebounds and one steal in Thursday’s loss to the Mercury.
    Iriafen finished Thursday’s defeat with her 16th double-double and second in as many games. While the Mystics have lost eight straight, their rookie forward has recorded five double-doubles during this stretch. The decision to trade Brittney Sykes at the August deadline effectively ended Washington’s postseason hopes, but the rookie campaigns put forth by Iriafen and Sonia Citron (7/4/1/1/1 with one three-pointer in 31 minutes) give the franchise hope for the future.
  • Sonia Citron finished with 12 points (4-of-7 FGs, 1-of-2 FTs), two rebounds, three assists, two steals, and three three-pointers during the Mystics’ 81-78 Sunday night loss to the Sparks in 26 minutes of play.
    Citron was clearly at the top of the Sparks’ scouting report as Kelsey Plum used a lot of her energy throughout the game to deny Citron the ball and chase her around the the quarter court. Citron didn’t make a shot until 35 seconds were left in the first half. Teammate Lucy Olsen found Citron cutting off the ball with Sparks wing Rae Burrell struggling to stay in front of the rookie while Plum was guarding the point of attack. Citron scored nine of her 12 points in the second half and all of her makes were on three-pointers. Sug Sutton, Stefanie Dolson and Jade Melbourne found Citron for her trio of three-pointers in the second half including one with 1.3 seconds left in regulation to trim the Sparks’ final point margin to just three points.
  • Sonia Citron finished Saturday’s loss to the Valkyries with 11 points (3-of-7 FGs, 4-of-4 FTs), two rebounds, three assists, one steal and one three-pointer.
    Among rookies, one can argue that only Dallas’ Paige Bueckers has been better than Citron this season. Her play is one reason why Washington still harbored hopes of reaching the postseason, with Saturday’s defeat officially eliminating the team from postseason contention. Given her youth, Citron’s playing should be safe for the rest of the season, which would be good news for those with the rookie on their fantasy rosters. And Washington has one more game this week, as they are visiting the Sparks on Sunday.
  • Sonia Citron amassed 18 points (7-of-14 FGs), three rebounds, one assist, one steal, two blocks and four three-pointers in Thursday’s loss to the Liberty.
    Citron started strong on Thursday by scoring 15 points in the first half on efficient shooting. Yet, the rookie guard tallied only one more made field goal the rest of the way, which came late in the fourth quarter. Still, she finished as the team’s leading scorer and was responsible for 80.0 percent of Washington’s three-point production. The Mystics have now lost five straight games and are in danger of being eliminated from playoff contention. Nonetheless, Citron will continue to be relied upon down the stretch of her rookie season to produce.
  • Sonia Citron tallied 14 points (6-of-12 FGs, 2-of-2 FTs), six rebounds, one assist, and four steals during the Mystics’ 84-82 loss to the Storm on Sunday in 35 minutes of play.
    Citron continues to make Mystics franchise history. On Sunday she scored in double figures once again, which brings her streak to 15 straight games scoring 10 or more points. She tied league legend Chamique Holdsclaw’s previous rookie streak and Citron is one game shy of trying Nikki McCray for the longest double figure scoring streak for a Mystics rookie ever. This was Citron’s 33rd overall double-digit scoring outing. She just tied Seimone Augustus and A’ja Wilson for the second-most double-digit scoring games for a rookie in WNBA history. In addition to her scoring, Citron had a two-way game on Sunday. She was primarily defending former teammate Brittney Sykes, and she held her to 10 points on 30 percent shooting. Citron also added four steals, which matched her season high.
  • Sonia Citron concluded with 13 points (4-of-7 FGs, 1-of-1 FTs), one rebound, three assists, one steal and four three-pointers in Saturday’s loss to the Aces.
    The rookie guard finished as one of three Mystics to score in double figures on Saturday, and she accomplished such while being limited to seven field goal attempts. Citron’s production almost came entirely from beyond the arc, with the exception being a single free-throw attempt and conversion. She didn’t leave her mark as neither a playmaker nor a rebounder, and ultimately logged an unspectacular performance from a fantasy basketball standpoint. Still, she’ll have a chance to land greater production on Sunday against the Storm in what will be another important matchup for the Mystics as far as playoff positioning in concerned.
  • Jacy Sheldon (ankle) is out for Saturday’s game against the Aces.
    Sheldon will miss a fifth straight game due to a sprained right ankle suffered during an August 13 loss to Golden State. Mystics coach Sydney Johnson said Thursday that the guard still has not reached the point where she’s doing 3-on-3 work, which may not be the best sign regarding how close Sheldon is to a return. Starters Sug Sutton and Sonia Citron continue to approach, if not exceed, 30 minutes on a nightly basis, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.