WNBA betting analysis. Page 6.
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Cox said the attacks have to stop, then turned to the real offseason question: Kelsey Mitchell is unrestricted, says she'll be "selfish" about it, and Indiana is calling her priority one.
Semifinals tip Sunday with Las Vegas at Golden State at 4 ET, and Kelsey Mitchell just told Indianapolis she's going to be selfish about free agency. Five things on my radar, one lean, zero plays.
Both the GM and the head coach said out loud Saturday that bringing her back is priority one. The player who has given Indiana her whole career just told them she's doing this one for herself.
The No. 5 point guard in the 2027 SC Next 100 picks the Gamecocks, which means Staley, a point guard's point guard, gets another two full years to shape one.
Gabby Williams scored 11 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter, and coach Natalie Nakase collapsed on the floor late before Golden State closed out Dallas 77-73.
Lightheaded and exhausted in the closing minutes of a 16-point comeback, Nakase went down on the sideline. The team says she was fine after and is expected to coach Sunday.
Golden State won 77-73 in a game that never cracked 80, and the reward is Las Vegas on Sunday at 4 ET. Nothing on my board cleared yet, and I'll tell you exactly why.
Two seasons on a temporary lakefront field, one night of fireworks and flames, and then the Wildcats handed a preseason Top 25 Penn State team a 21-point loss in their own new house.
Down 16 to Dallas in Game 3, the two-year-old franchise flipped it and won 77-73. Las Vegas lands in San Francisco on Sunday with the Valkyries' first series banner already hanging.
Vegas eliminating Indiana doesn't just nudge a title price, it collapses one. The Finals MVP side is the thinner, slower market, and tonight's only posted number is already two points higher than it opened.
Students skipped class to pack the McAfee set while ESPN turned part of Gilmore Hall, normally a classroom building, into a temporary newsroom. Week 5's loudest stage is a campus lawn.
Three games, a 9 PM Friday in San Francisco, and a Liberty-Dream back-to-back in Atlanta with an 18-hour turnaround. Nothing has cleared my number yet, and I'm not pretending otherwise.
A 6-foot-4 forward ranked No. 20 in the 2027 class said yes to Bloomington on Friday morning, roughly twelve hours after the Fever's season ended in Las Vegas. Indiana basketball needed the lift.
Las Vegas closed heavier than I bought it and won by 11. The day's confident number, a 59% favorite at -145, went down anyway. Two picks, two beats on the close, minus 0.43 units.
Dallas slid from +260 to +300 while one book pushed the spread to 8.5 and another still posts 7.5 at even money. The two-point split on the total says nobody is sure.
Las Vegas advances behind 36 from the four-time MVP, Angel Reese takes Defensive Player of the Year, and Napheesa Collier won't say where she's going next.
Half a percent of edge on the Aces moneyline is not an edge, it's a rounding error. The Golden State number is worse. Four spots on the radar, nothing cleared yet.
She said she loves Minnesota and hasn't had a minute to think past that. Not a goodbye, not a recommitment either, and for a franchise built around her that distinction is the entire winter.
The league looked at Tuesday night, found nothing worth acting on, and closed it. Wilson is clear to play when Indiana and Las Vegas meet again Thursday night in Vegas.
Down to her last possession of the season, Ogunbowale hit the tying three to force overtime and finished with 45. The Wings get a decider in Golden State.
Jordin Canada scored 13 of her 19 in the fourth quarter as Atlanta pulled away 93-75 to close the series in two, and the Liberty arrive in Atlanta on Sunday afternoon.
A Hispanic Heritage Month feature on a coach with decades in the women's game lands on the week the league hands out hardware, and the real story is how few names are behind him.
The award the league hands to the player who rebuilt herself, and Shepard took the long road to get it: Notre Dame, Minnesota, time away from the W, and now a trophy in Dallas.
Marcus Freeman called his unit "executing better," which is a defensive coach's way of saying the numbers and the tape finally agree. North Carolina is the audit.
Three games on the radar between Wednesday night and Thursday, a Valkyries trip into Dallas I like the shape of, and not one number clean enough to post. Here is the honest radar.
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