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The start of the 2025 WNBA season is still more than five months away, but the league wants to give fans plenty of time to prepare, which is especially helpful after the explosion of popularity in 2024. The WNBA broke attendance and viewership records, with a lot of attention paid to Caitlin Clark’s arrival in Indiana, but even more widely people showed that they wanted to watch women’s basketball.
2025 will be all about continuing that growth, both literally and figuratively. The WNBA will expand to 13 teams, with the Golden State Valkyries joining the league for their inaugural season in San Francisco. The Dallas Wings will add the top pick in the 2025 Draft, with the expectation that selection will be used to land UConn star Paige Bueckers, adding another collegiate star who has a huge following. And then there’s the competition at the top of the league, which is as fierce as ever, with the New York Liberty won their first title and trying to defend against the likes of the Las Vegas Aces, Minnesota Lynx, Connecticut Sun and possible other threats.
With that in mind, we wanted to highlight eight games on the 2025 WNBA schedule that are among the biggest nights of the year from a national perspective.
The first game in the history of the Valkyries franchise will take place on May 16 at the Chase Center, where the brand new roster (which has yet to be assembled, as the expansion design is scheduled for December 6) will get its first chance to play together in a WNBA game against the Sparks, featuring a young core of Cameron Brink, Rickea Jackson and the No. 2 pick in the 2025 Draft.
You knew the league wouldn’t wait long to take advantage of their newfound rivalry in the Midwest again Caitlin Clark and the Fever will face Angel Reese and Heaven in the season opener for both teams. In total, these two teams will play each other five times this season, as the WNBA will not miss any opportunity to exploit this rivalry.
It’s ring afternoon in Brooklyn in the second game of Saturday’s triple-header, when the Liberty will raise their first banner at the Barclays Center as A’ja Wilson and the Aces look on after falling short of their three-peat. when the Liberty eliminated them in the semifinals.
The No. 1 and No. 2 picks in the 2025 Draft will meet in a Commissioner’s Cup game in early June in Dallas. As of early December, that seems likely to be Paige Bueckers and Kiki Iriafen, but there’s still a lot of time for things to change.
This appears to be the first professional-level match between Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers, and if Bueckers does indeed end up in Dallas as expected, I have a feeling this will be moved from the College Park Center to the American Airlines Center. .
We don’t get the first Finals rematch from a year ago until late July, when the Liberty make the trip to Minneapolis to take on the Lynx. In a somewhat strange schedule, they play all four of their matches against each other in the space of twenty days.
These two had a very entertaining semi-final series a year ago, and this end-of-season match could have serious implications for their top rankings in the league.
Another big game for Minnesota towards the end of the season, with Napheesa Collier and A’ja Wilson battling it out in a matchup that could be the final argument in the MVP race between the top two candidates from a year ago , and also an impact on play-off seeding.
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