WNBA betting analysis. Page 16.
Every piece the desk has published on the WNBA: what moved, what it means for the number, and the read.
Five spots on the radar for Friday and Saturday, from Portland's 10 p.m. ET trip to Seattle to Lynx-Aces, plus why an empty board is the honest answer at this hour.
Three players and one Olympic roster that went 60-0 in 1996, enshrined together. The through line: none of the careers below happen without the team at the top of the list.
New York held off the Sparks 85-81 after nearly authoring a historic giveaway, and the number never flinched: -8.5 held, only the juice and half a point of under moved.
Two 29-point nights and five Howard triples turned a road game into a clinic, and Connecticut walked off at 8-24 with the Liberty due in Uncasville on Saturday afternoon.
The No. 1 pick went 10-of-16 for 97 yards and a touchdown across four series in a 27-14 Raiders loss, and the most encouraging number in it was 6.1 yards an attempt.
Young's season-high 32 and five 3s carried Las Vegas in Washington, and A'ja Wilson's quiet 15 might be the more telling number in an 83-76 clincher.
The ghost-player entrance is the most famous image in any baseball movie. Staging it with 26 living Hall of Famers, one at a time, turned a gimmick into the best pregame the sport puts on.
Sabrina Ionescu put up 20 as New York walked out of a near-historic collapse, on the same night word came that Satou Sabally is stepping away to recover from a head injury.
Two Indiana All-Stars spent Thursday defending their coach after Tuesday's introductions turned sour, and White gets introduced to the same building again Friday night.
Diana Taurasi and the 10,000 Points Shot, Broken Down by the Woman Who Took It
The first player in WNBA history to five figures walks through her own record basket, and the numbers behind it: 20 seasons, one uniform, three UConn banners, five Olympic golds.
A retirement feature built entirely out of teammate memory, right down to the two words that open it: "We got Diana." Twenty seasons in one uniform is why those stories exist at all.
Malonga's 26-point night has Seattle laying 2.5 at home despite a 1-15 mark in the West, and the only thing that budged overnight was a nickel of juice.
Bueckers dropped 22 and the Fever price didn't move a cent, but the books are a full point apart on this spread and the prediction venues can't agree either.
Collier's 20 and nine and McBride's 19 built a runaway. Then Portland outscored the league's best team for the rest of the night and got within one possession.
A season-best 22 points, six boards and five assists from the bench, and Golden State turned a sluggish opening into a 20-point win over a Sky team that never found its footing.
Team presidents and general managers spent Wednesday on the question and adjourned with no eligibility standard on the books, which tells you how carefully this league is choosing to move.
Vegas opened -315 and sits -275 on Washington, and de-vigged both prices land on the same 71 percent. The total frozen at 170.5 is the number actually telling a story.
Two-time Women's AfroBasket MVP, Nigeria's captain, and a name Dallas and Atlanta fans already know. Portland handed her a standard contract hours before Minnesota came to town.
Ten straight wins ended in an 8-0 closing run, with Erica Wheeler in the middle of it and Rae Burrell leading Los Angeles with 17. Minnesota gets no soft landing.
Leite's 27 points and 11 assists ended Portland's slide 97-83, and it dropped Toronto to eight straight losses in the Tempo's first summer as a franchise.
Two shots at two buzzers, one to force overtime and one to end it, and a Gainbridge crowd that had already seen two courtside fans escorted out in the third quarter.
Sky's 34-Point Fourth Quarter Buries the Sparks, 95-88
Three Chicago players finished with exactly 15, nobody hit 20, and the Sky still hung 34 in the final period. Los Angeles now walks into Minnesota on no rest.
Stephanie White Named Coach of the Month After Fever's 8-2 July
Indiana went 8-2 in July with Kelsey Mitchell pouring in 27.2 a night, and the woman who took this same franchise to the 2015 Finals just got the league's nod for the month.
Golden State Valkyries vs Toronto Tempo: Salaün's 21 Sweeps the Season Series
Salaün hit four 3s, Thornton matched him with four of his own, and the Valkyries closed out a 3-0 season sweep 92-82 while Toronto's skid stretched to seven.
Kelsey Plum Suits Up for Phoenix: What Her Mercury Debut Means for Tonight's Line
Plum was spotted in warmups before Phoenix's trip to Chicago, confirming she's active and available. That's a different Mercury than the one the number was built on.
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