With the trade deadline behind us and just five weeks remaining in the regular season, the push to the WNBA playoffs is officially on.
A few teams made moves to bolster their roster for a postseason push -- like DiJonai Carrington being traded to the Minnesota Lynx , who are looking to return to the WNBA Finals. The Washington Mystics hit the reset button, trading Brittney Sykes to the Seattle Storm for Alysha Clark and then sending Aaliyah Edwards to the Connecticut Sun .
Only three games separate the current No. 2 seed ( New York Liberty ) and the No. 5 seed ( Indiana Fever ), with the Atlanta Dream and Phoenix Mercury between them.
Perhaps the most interesting chunk of the playoff races is taking place at the bottom half of the standings, between the S