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The 2024 WNBA Playoffs kick off today, as eight WNBA teams hit the courts for the first round of the finals. Over four months since the season began, today's WNBA Playoffs tip off a week of highly anticipated matchups for the top teams in women's basketball. First up in the series, the Atlanta Dream meet the New York Liberty, with tip-off set for 1 p.m. ET at Barclays Center, followed by top draft pick Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever playing the Sun in Connecticut.
While games aired on a variety of different channels throughout the 2024 WNBA season, watching the WNBA Playoffs this week is easier than ever, especially if you don't have cable. Read on for everywhere you can watch the WNBA Playoffs livestream today -- and how to score free trials to see each game.
Basketball fans can stream the first-round WNBA Playoffs games with the below streaming services.
The WNBA Playoffs air on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 for Round 1, and fans can watch all the games online with a DirecTV Stream subscription. The DirecTV Stream Entertainment + Sports Pack tier saves you $30 for your first month, costing $79.98 a month to start. You'll get access to stream 90+ channels, including ABC and ESPN. Plans also come with a five-day free trial.
Basketball fans can watch all of the first-round WNBA Playoffs games live with a fuboTV streaming package, which starts at $49.99 a month for your first month, then goes up to the regular $79.99 a month price. The fuboTV Pro plan gets you access to 192 channels like ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2. Best of all, it's one of the few streaming services that offers a seven-day free trial before you have to pay a single dime.
Hulu + Live TV also offers access to stream local networks like ABC, so you can tune into the first-round game between the Fever vs. Sun today without cable. Hulu + Live TV offers 95 channels in its subscription plan, along with Disney+ and ESPN+ -- making it one of the best-value streaming bundles out there right now all for $76.99 a month. Bonus: New subscribers can get a three-day free trial to Hulu + Live TV to start.
Another place to livestream Round 1 of the WNBA Playoffs is Sling's Orange + Blue subscription plans. The bundle tier gets you access to a wide variety of channels, including local networks like ABC and sports-specific channels like ESPN. Subscribers can get 46 channels overall starting at $30 for your first month, then $60 a month.
The 2024 WNBA Playoffs start today, Sept. 22, 2024, with first-round games in the series also scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Want to see all of the Round 1 games today? Here's the complete schedule: