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| Dates | September 16 – October 9, 2009 |
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| Final positions | |
| Champions | Phoenix Mercury (Finals Champion) |
| East champion | Indiana Fever (Coach: Lin Dunn) |
| West champion | Phoenix Mercury (Coach: Corey Gaines) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Attendance | 9,979 per game |
The 2009 WNBA Playoffs is the postseason for the Women's National Basketball Association's 2009 season.
The following teams clinched a playoff berth in the East:
The following teams clinched a playoff berth in the West:
This was the outlook for the 2009 WNBA playoffs. Teams in italics had home court advantage. Teams in bold advanced to the next round. Numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's original playoffs seeding in their respective conferences. Numbers to the right of each team indicate the number of games the team won in that round.
| Conference Semi-Finals Best-of-3 | Conference Finals Best-of-3 | WNBA Finals Best-of-5 | ||||||||||||
| E1 | Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||||
| E4 | Washington | 0 | ||||||||||||
| E1 | Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Eastern Conference | ||||||||||||||
| E3 | Detroit | 1 | ||||||||||||
| E2 | Atlanta | 0 | ||||||||||||
| E3 | Detroit | 2 | ||||||||||||
| E1 | Indiana | 2 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Phoenix | 3 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Phoenix | 2 | ||||||||||||
| W4 | San Antonio | 1 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Phoenix | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Western Conference | ||||||||||||||
| W3 | Los Angeles | 1 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | Seattle | 1 | ||||||||||||
| W3 | Los Angeles | 2 | ||||||||||||
September 17 8:00 p.m. |
| Indiana Fever 88, Washington Mystics 79 | ||
| Pts: Catchings (26) Rebs: Catchings (12) | Pts: Langhorne (18) Rebs: Langhorne (10) | |
September 19 7:00 p.m. |
| Washington Mystics 74, Indiana Fever 81 (OT) | ||
| Pts: Langhorne (15) Rebs: Currie (14) | Pts: Catchings (24) Rebs: Catchings (16) | |
| Indiana won the series 2–0 | ||
September 16 8:00 p.m. |
| Atlanta Dream 89, Detroit Shock 94 | ||
| Pts: Castro Marques (25) Rebs: Lyttle (9) | Pts: Nolan (25) Rebs: Ford (10) | |
September 18 7:30 p.m. |
| Detroit Shock 94, Atlanta Dream 79 | ||
| Pts: Nolan (22) Rebs: Braxton, Hornbuckle (8) | Pts: Latta (21) Rebs: de Souza (7) | |
| Detroit won the series 2–0 | ||
September 23 8:00 p.m. |
| Indiana Fever 56, Detroit Shock 72 | ||
| Pts: Douglas (16) Rebs: Catchings (11) | Pts: Zellous (23) Rebs: Braxton, Ford (9) | |
September 25 7:00 p.m. |
| Detroit Shock 75, Indiana Fever 79 | ||
| Pts: Nolan (23) Rebs: Ford (13) | Pts: Catchings (22) Rebs: Catchings (9) | |
September 26 7:00 p.m. |
| Detroit Shock 67, Indiana Fever 72 | ||
| Pts: Nolan (16) Rebs: Ford (11) | Pts: Sutton-Brown (17) Rebs: Catchings (8) | |
| Indiana won the series 2–1 | ||
September 17 10:00 p.m. |
| Phoenix Mercury 91, San Antonio Silver Stars 92 | ||
| Pts: Taylor (18) Rebs: Taurasi (7) | Pts: Young (24) Rebs: Wauters (11) | |
September 19 10:00 p.m. |
| San Antonio Silver Stars 78, Phoenix Mercury 106 | ||
| Pts: Young (19) Rebs: Wauters (5) | Pts: Taurasi (24) Rebs: Bonner (13) | |
September 21 10:00 p.m. |
| San Antonio Silver Stars 92, Phoenix Mercury 100 | ||
| Pts: Hammon (29) Rebs: Young (8) | Pts: Taurasi (30) Rebs: T. Smith (8) | |
| Phoenix won the series 2–1 | ||
September 16 10:00 p.m. |
| Seattle Storm 63, Los Angeles Sparks 70 | ||
| Pts: Cash (24) Rebs: Batkovic-Brown (7) | Pts: Thompson (16) Rebs: Leslie, Parker (10) | |
September 18 10:00 p.m. |
| Los Angeles Sparks 74, Seattle Storm 75 | ||
| Pts: Lennox (17) Rebs: Leslie (14) | Pts: Cash (18) Rebs: Wright (6) | |
September 20 5:00 p.m. |
| Los Angeles Sparks 75, Seattle Storm 64 | ||
| Pts: Parker (22) Rebs: Milton-Jones (9) | Pts: Cash (21) Rebs: Cash (10) | |
| Los Angeles won the series 2–1 | ||
September 23 10:00 p.m. |
| Phoenix Mercury 103, Los Angeles Sparks 94 | ||
| Pts: Taurasi (28) Rebs: T. Smith (6) | Pts: Parker (28) Rebs: Parker (10) | |
September 25 10:00 p.m. |
| Los Angeles Sparks 87, Phoenix Mercury 76 | ||
| Pts: Parker (24) Rebs: Parker (18) | Pts: Taurasi (25) Rebs: Pondexter (7) | |
September 26 10:00 p.m. |
| Los Angeles Sparks 74, Phoenix Mercury 85 | ||
| Pts: Leslie (22) Rebs: Thompson (11) | Pts: Taurasi (21) Rebs: Taurasi (7) | |
| Phoenix won the series 2–1 | ||
September 29 9:00 p.m. |
| Indiana Fever 116, Phoenix Mercury 120 (OT) | ||
| Pts: Douglas (30) Rebs: Hoffman (8) | Pts: Pondexter, Taylor (23) Rebs: Taurasi (9) | |
October 1 9:00 p.m. |
| Indiana Fever 93, Phoenix Mercury 84 | ||
| Pts: Catchings (19) Rebs: Catchings (9) | Pts: Taurasi (20) Rebs: Taurasi (7) | |
October 4 4:00 p.m. |
| Phoenix Mercury 85, Indiana Fever 86 | ||
| Pts: Pondexter (23) Rebs: T. Smith (10) | Pts: Hoffman (18) Rebs: Catchings (12) | |
October 7 7:30 p.m. |
| Phoenix Mercury 90, Indiana Fever 77 | ||
| Pts: Pondexter (22) Rebs: Willingham (8) | Pts: Catchings (24) Rebs: Catchings (12) | |
October 9 9:00 p.m. |
| Indiana Fever 86, Phoenix Mercury 94 | ||
| Pts: Sutton-Brown (22) Rebs: Catchings (9) | Pts: Taurasi (26) Rebs: Smith (8) | |
| Phoenix won the series 3-2 | ||
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