Liberty, Lynx each nonetheless undefeated after ancient begins

Both groups have long gone undefeated thus far this 12 months with the Lynx bettering to 8-0 with a win over Phoenix on Tuesday evening in a Commissioner’s Cup matchup.

The Liberty and Lynx confronted off closing season within the in-season event ultimate with Minnesota coming away with the victory. New York were given revenge, profitable the WNBA championship for the primary time in franchise historical past.

With Minnesota 8-0 and New York 7-0 this season, it marks the most recent that multiple franchise have been undefeated this lengthy into the season since each the Lynx and Los Angeles Sparks began 2016 profitable their first 11 video games.

New York has ruled its warring parties thus far, averaging 91.9 issues a recreation, and profitable via just about 23 issues a competition. That features a 48-point victory over Connecticut, the second-largest margin of victory in WNBA historical past.

Minnesota has been discovering techniques to win shut contests. Before beating Golden State via 11 on Sunday, the Lynx had received their earlier 4 video games via a complete of 18 issues.

The Lynx and Liberty would possibly not play within the common season for a couple of extra months with their 4 matchups coming within the span of a couple of weeks — the primary of which is on July 30.

New York led the best way because the No. 1 workforce within the energy ballot once more this week. Minnesota used to be proper in the back of in moment. The nationwide vote casting panel selected Phoenix 3rd and Atlanta fourth. The Dream moved up 3 puts. Las Vegas, Seattle and Indiana have been the following 3. Washington, Golden State and Chicago adopted. Los Angeles, Dallas and Connecticut rounded out the ballot.

The WNBA will play its annual in-season event over the following few weeks. Each workforce will play the opposite groups of their convention one time all the way through that window. The West may have six video games with the addition of the growth workforce Golden State. The East will play 5. The groups with the most efficient document in each and every convention will face off within the name recreation. The profitable workforce receives a $500,000 money prize pool to divvy up in addition to each and every participant on that squad gets $5,000 in cryptocurrency from Bitcoin.

Allisha Gray of Atlanta earned Player of the Week honours for the second one time in her occupation. The Dream guard, who additionally received the award in June 2023, averaged 26.5 issues, 4.5 rebounds and 4 assists to assist Atlanta win each its video games closing week at the highway over Los Angeles and Seattle. Other avid gamers receiving attention integrated A’ja Wilson of Las Vegas, Napheesa Collier of Minnesota and Sabrina Ionescu of New York.

Indiana at Chicago, Saturday. Caitlin Clark might nonetheless be sidelined with a quad pressure for this rematch between the Fever and Sky. The recreation will likely be broadcast on CBS in primetime, the primary for the community in WNBA historical past.