3 things I think I think heading into the end of the WNBA season

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There have been injuries, surprise teams and an impressive rookie class all contributing to what’s made this an exciting 2025 WNBA season.

We are now in the final quarter of the year, and so much has yet to be decided. Who will win the big end-of-season awards? Which teams will make the playoffs? And ultimately, who will be crowned champion?

Right now, we have more questions than answers, but allow me to make three predictions sure to go wrong:

1. People will complain about who wins the MVP award

MVP candidate Alyssa Thomas.

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It seems like a three-player race for MVP centered around the Minnesota Lynx’s Napheesa Collier, the Las Vegas Aces’ A’ja Wilson and the Phoenix Mercury’s Alyssa Thomas. I’m not sure who will win, but I know what the outcome will be once it’s announced: fans will complain.

If Collier wins, the critics will moan that the media gave her the award before the season even began. That it was hers to lose, and despite missing games, she won it anyway.

If Wilson comes out on top, fans will say Collier got robbed and she shouldn’t have been penalized for missing so many games. Collier, as the best player on the best team, was deserving, yet she was snubbed once again.

If Thomas wins it, they’ll say it was the “hipster stats nerd” selection. The media became obsessed with the triple-doubles and ignored the others’ statistical achievements.

Each argument is ridiculous and makes me roll my eyes so hard I need to take headache medicine afterwards. So fear not, media voters, whoever you pick, you will be wrong and will hear about why that is soon enough.

2. The Wings will end the season with the worst record

Head coach Chris Koclanes and Paige Bueckers.

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The Dallas Wings have only won nine games this year. The Connecticut Sun have won just seven and currently have the worst record in the WNBA.

When the season comes to an end, however, it will be the Wings that win the race to the bottom.

Considering they own their first-round pick, have struggled to close out games all year and Arike Ogunbowale is now out for the upcoming weeks due to knee tendinitis, the only conclusion I can draw is that they’ll likely lose most of their games the rest of the way.

If they do that, then I think the Sun and the Chicago Sky, who only have eight wins themselves, will do well enough to finish in front of the Wings in the final standings.

While this is a negative for Dallas, the positive is they have Paige Bueckers, and she’s been great. If they lose a couple more games and the 2026 WNBA Draft Lottery goes their way, they can add another great young player to their roster, and this down year can be just a bump in the road towards a quick rebuild.

3. The Sparks will make the playoffs

The Los Angeles Sparks.

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The Los Angeles Sparks have missed the playoffs for four years in a row—the longest postseason drought in franchise history. But that ends this year!

It’s a tight race, as LA is currently one game behind the Seattle Storm for the eighth and final spot, but they will own the tiebreaker over them if they beat Seattle on Sept. 1. Factor that in with an explosive offense and a team, led by All-Star and two-time champion Kelsey Plum, that is hungry to prove that they can turn things around in Southern California, and I think they find a way to play a 45th game in 2025.

If not, then the conversations around Los Angeles will be more about what they didn’t do this year, and that would be a shame given all the progress head coach Lynne Roberts and her staff have made to turn things around in LA.

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