WNBA betting analysis. Page 9.
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Wilson as MVP is a formality and the rookie of the year already owns the single-season rookie scoring mark. The live question is which Golden State pair walks off with hardware in year two.
Atlanta went from -115 to -130 with the spread stretching to -2.5, but the prediction venues price the Dream nearer 58 percent. The move may not be finished.
Three WNBA favorites steamrolled the close, Indiana got run 93-77 as a -223 chalk, and a 6-2 day still bled 0.11u. Here is every ticket, graded.
Olivia Miles passed Caitlin Clark's rookie scoring record as Minnesota edged nearer the No. 1 seed, while Indiana's flat Sunday in Washington cost the Fever seeding ground before Tuesday's visit from the Lynx.
Indiana picked the worst week of the year to have one of its worst nights. Washington did the shoving, and the rungs above the Fever just moved further out of reach.
Collier put up 23 and Miles 21 in a 101-89 win over Connecticut, and somewhere in the middle of it the rookie scoring record Caitlin Clark set in 2024 quietly changed hands.
Olivia Miles owns the rookie scoring record now, and my card came back four favorites deep with the fattest edge hiding behind a 15-to-1 lay. That picture needs a hard look.
The rookie scoring mark has now lived in Minneapolis, then Indianapolis, then back in Minneapolis inside twenty years. Miles took it in a game against Connecticut.
She got it Saturday at State Farm Arena against the Sky, the team she came into the league with. Sylvia Fowles owned this record at 404 as recently as 2018.
Bueckers put up 20 of her 26 before halftime as Dallas took a sixth straight, Washington visits Indiana at 4, and not one of the five games cleared my board this morning.
A left knee injury in the preseason ends the Houston transfer's 2026-27 before a single live rep, and the reporting carries no timetable beyond the lost year.
Twenty of Bueckers' 26 came before halftime, Arike Ogunbowale added 22 and six assists, and Dallas held on 87-82 after Phoenix spent the second half clawing back.
Two Saturday chalk sides show edges of 1.608% and 1.177%, but both come at prices north of -600. The question is whether the toll is worth the trip.
Thirty-three points in Toronto, confetti in the tunnel, and the first thing out of Mitchell's mouth was about Stephanie White's milestone. Eight years in Indiana will do that to a person.
The temporary restraining order that had kept Stephen Daley and Kellan Wyatt on the field ran out, and the No. 4 Hoosiers now wait on a judge instead of a trainer.
Three Friday favorites, three tiny gaps. The biggest edge on my card is 0.59 percent and it asks you to lay -900. That is a lean, not a play, and here is what would change it.
Young hung 22 in the first quarter alone on her way to 35 against Seattle. Howard set a new single-game three-point mark in Atlanta. Two weeks off the FIBA break and the league came back hot.
Atlanta's guard set the WNBA season mark for 3-pointers in a Thursday night blowout of Connecticut, the least dramatic setting possible for a record four years in the making.
Eight teams in 1997, fifteen in 2026, two of them brand new, and with the regular season ending Sept. 24 all eight playoff seeds are still unsorted. The anniversary picked a good week.
The field is locked but every seed is loose, the Aces are riding a three-game streak into their final four, and Adam Silver is reportedly asking active players who should run the league.
WNBA News Today: Clark's Gold, an Omission, and Bluder's Honor
Caitlin Clark led Team USA in assists during the World Cup run, a former ESPN anchor's takeaways left her out entirely, and TNT's debut broadcast pulled record audiences.
Bluder gets honored alongside Mike Brey, James Jones and Ernie Johnson, and the presenter matters as much as the trophy: the woman who built the modern business of women's sports hands it over.
The World Cup's first run on TNT Sports drew record audiences, and it landed in the middle of a WNBA pause that sent the league's biggest names overseas. The bill for that comes due Thursday.
Nothing cleared my board this morning, but Portland's home-then-road back-to-back and a pair of 10 PM ET tips are already doing interesting things to my numbers.
A fabricated clip of a head coach striking a sideline reporter got a laugh before it got a statement. The laugh is the part this sport has no playbook for.
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