Final week of WNBA regular season has playoff picture still muddled

Final week of WNBA regular season has playoff picture still muddled DOUG FEINBERG NEW YORK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED 19 MINUTES AGO Open this photo in gallery: Breanna Stewart (30) of the New York Liberty dribbles against Laura Juskaite (2) of the Toronto Tempo during their game at Coca-Cola Coliseum on Sunday in Toronto. MARK BLINCH/GETTY IMAGES COMMENTS SHARE SAVE FOR LATER Listen to this article Learn more about audio Log in or create a free account to listen to this article. With the WNBA entering the final week of the regular season, the playoff seedings are undecided. The eight teams that will play in the postseason were decided a few weeks ago, but none of positions have been clinched yet. Minnesota and Golden State are still vying for the top overall seed and homecourt advantage throughout the playoffs. Las Vegas is in the driver’s seat for the No. 3 seed. Then it really gets tight with only two games separating fourth-place Atlanta from eighth-place Dallas. The Wings, Liberty and Mystics all had the same record as of Monday. Indiana is one game in front of them. There are two key series this week that should have playoff intensity to them when Minnesota and Indiana play a home-and-home set on Tuesday and Thursday. New York and Atlanta will also play two times this week. Those two series will go a long way in determining postseason matchups. “I think it’ll be good for both us and New York to get two games going into the playoffs, wherever it shakes out, where you’re already playing a playoff intensity and kind of playoff stakes,” Atlanta coach Karl Smekso said Monday morning after shootaround. Power poll rankings Golden State remained the No. 1 team in the power poll this week. Las Vegas and Minnesota were the next two. Atlanta, New York, Washington and Dallas followed the Lynx. Indiana was eighth. Los Angeles and Phoenix followed. Portland, Chicago, Toronto, Connecticut and Seattle rounded out the poll. Open this photo in gallery: Hall of Fame basketball player Lisa Leslie poses next to her newly unveiled statue prior to a game between the Los Angeles Sparks and the Portland Fire at Crypto.com Arena on Sunday in Los Angeles. GRIFFIN C. HOOPER/GETTY IMAGES Immortalized in bronze Lisa Leslie was honoured by the Los Angeles Sparks franchise with a bronze statue outside their arena. She became the 16th person honoured with a statue in Star Plaza in a ceremony that featured Magic Johnson, Candace Parker, Michael Cooper and…