WNBA Free Agency: Betting Impact from the Moves That Have Been Made

The WNBA offseason has officially become Must Watch TV. For the second straight season, multiple absolute megastars of the sport changed teams, once again often in unison, creating some of the most stacked rosters we have seen in recent memory.

This offseason, it was the Seattle Storm and Phoenix Mercury who did the most to try to join the Superteam Tier alongside the New York Liberty and two-time reigning champion Las Vegas Aces.

With all this movement, bettors will have plenty of chances to beat the books in a sport that is growing rapidly in terms of attention, but where smart fans can still hold an edge on the books. So what I’ve done here is cover betting angles for each team in the league after this busy offseason. The teams are ranked worst to first and separated into tiers. I did this order because there is more betting advice on the lower teams to be honest, but if you’re going to read it all, feel free to start at the bottom and work your way up, too! (I’ll say this: It’s no surprise who is number one, so it’s not really a spoiler.)

I made this article very thorough, even including training camp contract folks because I know I’m not the only sicko out there that cares, and it can be very hard to simply find all this information collected in one place when it comes to the WNBA at times. So hopefully this is a useful betting guide not just today but once the season comes a bit closer and we have more ways to bet the league, rather than just the title odds we have now. I will update the top sections for each team every now and then as the preseason moves along, as there are a few more pieces to settle, but none of them are (likely!) going to change the overall takeaway for most of these teams.

Let’s dive in!

Los Angeles Sparks

Players In: Kia Nurse, Aari McDonald, Monique Billings, Taylor Mikesell, Virag Kiss, #2 Pick, #4 Pick, #8 Pick

Players Out: Jordin Canada, Karlie Samuelson, Nneka Ogwumike, Katie Lou Samuelson, Jasmine Thomas, Chiney Ogwumike**

Rotation: Aari McDonald,  Lexie Brown, Layshia Clarendon, Azura Stevens, Monique Billings // Kia Nurse, Dearica Hamby, Stephanie Talbot, Rae Burrell, Zia Cooke, Nia Clouden 

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +4600

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +7500

Free Agency Takeaways: In this case, the takeaway is literal things being taken away from the team. In Nneka Ogwumike, Jordin Canada, and Karlie Samuelson, the Sparks lost their three best players by WNBA-Reference win shares in 2023. If Chiney follows her sister out the door (either to focus on media or to play for another team), she’s another key piece gone.

In replacement of that core, the Sparks will be turning to youth. They have three of the top eight picks in this draft, which is amazing news for the long term. This is one of the most talented draft classes of all time (shouts to the Big Threes of 2013 and 2008), and they could potentially come out of this teardown with Paige Bueckers, Rickea Jackson, and Angel Reese [dizzy face emoji].

Like I said: GREAT news for the future, but less great for this season, in a league that has oodles of already league-adjusted talent. Personally, I have the Sparks as the worst team in the league, and by a decent margin at that. 

Betting Advice: There are several ways to go here. Aari McDonald and Lexie Brown should have great chances to clear their points + rebounds + assists (pra) props to start the season, as both will be relied on more heavily than any other time in their career. McDonald, in particular, has shown flashes, including two years ago when she got a six-game stretch to start and averaged 16 points and five assists a game as a 23-year-old. I’m really excited to see what she can do with (hopefully) the keys here in L.A. 

But the most obvious play for me is going to be their unders. This is a roster that skews towards defense, especially in the front-court, where Azura Stevens and Monique Billings is far from a top-tier front-court in the W, but they are both strong defenders who should at least provide a solid bit of rim protection. Dearica Hamby and Aari McDonald are also players whose games are better on the defensive side of things than offensive, at least in their careers to date. And finally, this team is going to get blown out a ton. I always lean to the under in a WNBA blowout, just adding another factor to the under lean.

Chicago Sky

Players In: Lindsay Allen, Diamond DeShields, Taya Reimer, Brianna Turner, Michaela Onyenwere, Kysre Gondrezick, Chennedy Carter, #3 Pick

Players Out: Kahleah Copper, Morgan Bertsch, Courtney Williams, Alanna Smith, Taylor Soule, Ruthy Hebard

Rotation: Dana Evans, Marina Mabrey, Diamond DeShields, Isabelle Harrison, Elizabeth Williams // Lindsay Allen, Rebekah Gardner**, Brianna Turner, Michaela Onyewere, Robyn Parks**, Sika Kone 

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +5000

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +7500

Free Agency Takeaways: If it wasn’t so silly to have a tier demarcation between the 12th and 11th-best teams in a 12-team league, I actually would have put one here. While Chicago has gone through a teardown of their own this offseason, I like their present a good amount more than the Sparks right now (while liking their future WAY less).

The starting five should actually work pretty decently together, with the guards carrying the scoring load, while the bigs carry the defensive side of things. Elizabeth Williams is one of the most underrated players in the WNBA, and would likely be a starter of a WNBA version of the Jalen Johnson All-Stars (which I’ll have to write up this season).

Betting Advice: The Sky have the longest title odds in the league right now, and while title odds and spread value don’t correlate perfectly, if the books treat the Sky as worse than the Sparks when they face off, I will likely be on the Sky. 

From a player prop perspective, Diamond DeShields will likely also be doing some reckless shit with her usage, and while I’m not always her biggest fan in terms of actual impact on winning, I think she could do some numbers on her early-season props.

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Indiana Fever

Players In: Katie Lou Samuelson, Damiris Dantas, #1 Pick

Players Out: Emma Cannon, Amanda Zahui B.

Rotation: Erica Wheeler, Kelsey Mitchell, Katie Lou Samuelson, NaLyssa Smith, Aliyah Boston // Grace Berger, Damiris Dantas, Lexie Hull, Kristy Wallace, Victoria Vivians, Maya Caldwell

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +2700

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +2000

Free Agency Takeaways: [ducks] It is I, wet blanket. Listen, the long-term future of a franchise with (likely) Caitlin Clark and Aliyah Boston is almost comically high. I would take an over on 1.5 rings they win together, and that’s a patently absurd take from someone not typically prone to exaggeration. 

However, I think I’m going to be fading this team a bunch in 2024 if they are really being treated as the seventh-best team in the W, as their current title odds imply. The fact remains that this team was the third-worst team in the W last season and saw the two teams below them add an insane amount of WNBA proven talent in the offseason. They also, with the likely addition of Clark, are absolutely primed to be absolutely overhyped. This is not an indictment on Clark. I think her long-term ceiling is about as high as any prospect to enter the W, but this league has shown time and time again that even insanely talented guards struggle when they first reach the league. See: Kelsey Plum, Sabrina Ionescu, Jewell Loyd, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Chelsea Gray. It really is the rule, as even Arike Ogunbowale, who hit the ground running better than arguably any guard in recent history, saw her team finish 10-24 in her rookie season.

Betting Advice: This squad is basically the inverse of the Sparks. Outside of Aliyah Boston (who, in all fairness, may already be a top-ten defender in the league), it’s a roster of offense-first players, which will only increase if they do land Clark. Clark should also bring a faster pace, which should only mean even more of a lean towards their overs early in the season while the books are figuring these teams out.

Atlanta Dream

Players In: Jordin Canada, Aerial Powers, Tina Charles, #12 Pick

Players Out: Iliana Rupert, Aari McDonald, Monique Billings, Taylor Mikesell, Danielle Robinson

Rotation: Jordin Canada, Allisha Gray, Rhyne Howard, Cheyenne Parker, Tina Charles // Nia Coffey, Haley Jones, Aerial Powers, Naz Hillmon, Laeticia Amihere, AD Durr**

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +2300

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +4400

Free Agency Takeaways: The 2023 Atlanta Dream desperately needed a team-first point guard and a true post player who could get a bucket. Theoretically, Jordin Canada and Tina Charles fit those two needs to a T. So why does it feel like this Dream team is ready to disappoint? Part of it could be that the fit may not be as clean as it seems. Canada is more of a slow-down, pick-and-roll point guard, which goes against the run-and-gun, fastbreak heavy offense the Dream relied on in 2023. (Shout out to Snap Wilson of the Sixth Podcast of the Year pod for this observation.) Part of it could be that, although she has gotten numbers every step of her career, Charles has a noted reputation for looking to get said numbers at the cost of any thought of winning. 

Now, I have a LOT of faith in this Dream front office, and just 12 months ago I would have had Tanisha Wright at the top of my list of young coaches I loved. But something smells fishy with this roster, so I’m going to be taking a wait and see approach for the most part.

Betting Advice: Due to being a bit lower on them than the market appears to be, along with the fact that I think it may take some time for this collision of player and system with their new pieces, this is a team I will likely be fading on the spread early on in the season, even though the market as a whole has clearly shifted on them, with them and Minnesota being the names that really moved down a tier with the additions in Phoenix and Seattle. Their first two games shouldn't present too much stress, but the next stretch in which they face the Wings, Lynx, Mystics, and Aces feels like a stretch I will likely be on the other side each game.

They may also have some strong To Miss Playoffs potential if the price is right preseason. 

Minnesota Lynx

Players In: Natisha Hiedeman, Courtney Williams, Alanna Smith, Liz Dixon, Kayana Traylor, Taylor Soule, Jaime Nared, #7 Pick

Players Out: Tiffany Mitchell, Jessica Shepard, Emily Engstler, Damiris Dantas, Rachel Banham, Lindsay Allen, Aerial Powers, Natalie Achonwa

Rotation: Courtney Williams, Kayla McBride, Diamond Miller, Napheesa Collier, Alanna Smith // Natisha Hiedeman, Dorka Juhasz, Bridget Carleton, Nikolina Milic**

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +3100

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +5500

Free Agency Takeaways: There were plenty of teams that saw bigger names come and go than Minnesota, but lowkey not too many topped the Lynx in terms of volume. And I love what they did. Courtney Williams is exactly what the franchise has been lacking for years now—a guard who can score but also create. Williams exists basically strictly to subvert your expectations of her, and last season was quietly a full-on different version of her. Her scoring dropped notably, but her creation was its best it's ever been—by far. She averaged just over 10 points and six assists a game for the Sky, while maintaining her under-the-radar defensive impact.

Natisha Hiedeman has long been one of my favorite under-the-radar players in the league, and Alanna Smith was an advanced stats breakout darling last season. Add all that to Napheesa Collier, who—also, quietly, sense a theme?—is a top-five player in the W right now, and it should be the perfect sleeper team right?

My only worry here is that they are beginning from an inflated starting point. They were the six seed in the W last season, but by net rating, they were the tenth-best team in the league, making them easily the biggest Pythagorean over-performer in the league last season. That’s the type of team I typically am looking to fade hard the next season, but with all these additions, I am now torn.

Betting Advice: Let’s see how things start. I’m entirely ready to hop all over this team, and I like that the market soured on them a bit. I think Cheryl Reeve + Phee is a means to overperforming a Pythag, so I’m a little less worried about regression from them. Plus, have I mentioned how much I love the additions they made?

Washington Mystics

Players In: DiDi Richards, Emily Engstler, Julie Vanloo, Karlie Samuelson, Elissa Cunane, #6 Pick

Players Out: Natasha Cloud, Elena Delle Donne, Tianna Hawkins

Rotation: Brittany Sykes, Ariel Atkins, Karlie Samuelson, Myisha Hines-Allen, Shakira Austin // Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Julie Vanloo, Queen Egbo, Li Meng**, Emily Engstler, DiDi Richards

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +1800

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +6600

Free Agency Takeaways: Ok, speaking of being the high man on a team, the Mystics are the team I’m entirely ready to be the high man on. Yes, they lost two very key players in the offseason in Natasha Cloud and Elena Delle Donne. In fact, those are two of the eight highest all-time scorers in franchise history. However, I’m not seeing this as the second-worst team in the W, as their title odds would imply. (They were the biggest droppers by actual title odds because they were coming from a higher spot than some of the other teams to see stars leave.)

This team has had plenty of experience playing without Delle Donne in recent seasons, as she has been frequently hurt. And in Cloud, they lose an absolute dawg but a player whose impact by advanced stats didn’t always match what the eyes showed. Both losses will be big, but they still retain a very interesting roster.

Brittney Sykes had to carry an injury-ravaged Mystics team at times in 2023 and showed herself capable of leading an injury-depleted roster to wins on her back. But it’s the shape of this roster that really intrigues me. Shakira Austin, if she’s back and fully healthy, is one of the best post defenders to base a defense around. And while head coach Eric Thibault had a shaky first season, a potential five with Sykes at the point of attack, Austin in the post, surrounded by three shooters in Atkins, Samuelson, and Belgian point guard Julie Vanloo (familiarize yourself in the Olympic qualifiers right now) feels like the inverse of the suspect fit in Atlanta.

Betting Advice: Sykes pra props are going to be electric to start the season, especially with the alts. She’s the type of player escalators were made for. I’m going to be on the Mystics in general, but I also am going to target them as a team that could potentially be good for some longshot moneylines. At least if they lean into the shooting on this team, that sort of variance is the exact type of way to take down one of the big teams—via the three point onslaught.

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Phoenix Mercury

Players In: Natasha Cloud, Rebecca Allen, Kahleah Copper, Morgan Bertsch (rights), Mikiah Herbert Harrigan, Natasha Mack

Players Out: Moriah Jefferson, Brianna Turner, Michaela Onyenwere, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Megan Gustafson, Shey Peddy, Ashley Joens, Destanni Henderson

Rotation: Natasha Cloud, Diana Taurasi, Kahleah Copper, Sophie Cunningham, Brittney Griner // Rebecca Allen, Sug Sutton, Morgan Bertsch, Kadi Sissoko, Christyn Williams

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +5000

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +2000

Free Agency Takeaways: Where to begin. Let’s begin with the fact that with no pick in the 2024 draft and a new owner looking to maintain relevance for a franchise with a proud history, this offseason was no surprise whatsoever. In Cloud, Copper, and Allen, the Mercury have massively raised the floor on what was the worst roster in the W. But to be honest, I think these current title odds project forward this new ownership aggression a bit. I don’t think that, as constructed, this Mercury team should be in the same tier as the Wings and Storm.

Betting Advice: This is a team that I am going to like their playoff ceiling far more than their regular season floor. Cloud, Taurasi, and Copper are all players I want in the postseason more than night-to-night during the regular season. As such, I’ll likely be finding plenty of spots to fade this Mercury team during the season, but if they (unsurprisingly) add a piece at the deadline and maybe “hobble” into the postseason, that’s when I’ll be ready to pounce and play them as dogs against teams that maybe have a higher floor but much lower ceiling. If you look around a bit, you can find a +3000 for their title odds right now, and while I personally am going to wait a bit, I don't hate laying that number now if you're even higher on this all coming together in Phoenix.

From a day-to-day basis, I’m going to absolutely smash rebounding props for opposing bigs against the Phoenix. This team had the lowest defensive rebounding rate last season and got worse in that area, losing Brianna Turner and replacing her spot in the starting lineup with whichever of Allen, Copper, Cunningham wants to bang in the post that day. Add in the fact that Griner has secretly been a very bad rebounder her entire career, and this team could be historically bad on the glass. I’m not even sure what they will do against teams like the Wings. Don’t be surprised if this is an area addressed via trade at some point this season, though.

Connecticut Sun

Players In: Tiffany Mitchell, Rachel Banham, Rennia Davis, Kianna Smith, Sydney Wiese, Moriah Jefferson, Astou Ndour-Fall, #10 Pick

Players Out: Natisha Hiedeman, Rebecca Allen, Tiffany Hayes

Rotation: Moriah Jefferson, DiJonai Carrington, DeWanna Bonner, Alyssa Thomas, Brionna Jones // Rachel Banham, Tiffany Mitchell, Olivia Nelson-Ododa, Tyasha Harris, Astou Ndour-Fall 

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +1000

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +1100

Free Agency Takeaways: In Alyssa Thomas, DeWanna Bonner, and Brionna Jones, the Sun have a top three that can hang with almost anyone, but Jones is working back from an Achilles injury, and their other two stars (the power couple of AT and Bonner) are both into their 30s (Bonner will turn 36 this season). This is by no means a death knell, Bonner in particular has been one of the most reliably healthy stars the league has seen the past decade, but the depth on this team is suspect and they are incredibly reliant on those main three.

Betting Advice: This is likely a team that I will be fading on the spread early in the season, especially as Bri works her way back from that Achilles. I also might look to see if we get a crazy long number for them to miss the playoffs in the preseason, because the floor for this team scares me a bit.

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Dallas Wings

Players In: Emma Cannon, #5 Pick, #9 Pick

Players Out: Awak Kuier, Odyssey Sims, Diamond DeShields

Rotation: Crystal Dangerfield, Arike Ogunbowale, Satou Sabally, Natasha Howard, Teaira McCowan // Kalani Brown, Veronica Burton, Maddy Siegrist, Lou Lopez Senechal, Stephanie Soares

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +1000

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +1700

Free Agency Takeaways: The quietest offseason of them all, the Wings are trusting a young core that improved its winning percentage for the fifth straight season last year to continue that trend in 2024. And I think it well could! Even considering all the sands shifting around them across the league. 

This starting five was incredibly strong last season, with a net rating of +11.6 in over 400 minutes together once Dangerfield entered the starting lineup. They really just needed more scoring from the perimeter (they ranked dead last in three point percentage and points from beyond the arc as a whole last season) and a bit more defense, as they ranked in the bottom half of the league in most defensive metrics last season.

The former will be much easier to address. Two of their 2023 rookies missed last season, with Senechal and Soares both missing the entirety of the season. Senechal was arguably the best shooter in her class, and should bring immediate impact in that regard this season if she can crack the rotation (which should be expected). Soares is a bit more of an enigma, but theoretically projects as a stretch four who could work perfectly with either McCowan or Brown.

I’d love to see the Wings target standout perimeter defenders in this draft. They once again have two first round picks, and while this class actually doesn’t have a ton of that type, Charisma Osbourne could be a great fit at #9. Theoretically, this should be a decent defense, with Burton, Sabally, and McCowan all plus defenders, so it might just be on Latricia Trammell (a very good coach) to find some tweaks. They are going to continue to clean the glass, which is an underrated part of defense, but too often teams were able to beat them from the free throw line and beyond the arc—incredibly bad areas for defenses to leak from.

Betting Advice: With all the hype around what the Storm and Mercury were doing this offseason, it's not surprising that we have one book hanging a +2700 on the Wings. This was the exact spot I was looking for. Dallas has had success against the top teams (especially giving the Aces some of their toughest games the last two seasons), and they match up incredibly well with this version of the Mercury. My first official title bet for this article is: Wings +2700, FanDuel.

Seattle Storm

Players In: Skylar Diggins-Smith, Nneka Ogwumike

Players Out: Kia Nurse, Ivana Dojkić, Gabby Williams, Yvonne Turner

Rotation: Skylar Diggins-Smith, Jewell Loyd, Jordan Horston, Nneka Ogwumike, Ezi Magbegor // Sami Whitcomb, Mercedes Russell, Dulcy Fanam Mendjiadeu, Jade Melbourne, Joyner Holmes 

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +3600

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +1000

Free Agency Takeaways: I’ll lead with a hot take—if Gabby Williams somehow changes her mind and comes to the W this season instead of playing in France, I’m not just betting the Storm to win the title at this number, I’m full-on slotting them above the Liberty in my power rankings.

This team is going to be so good.

The core they are returning quietly started playing well down the stretch. Their late-season starting five of Loyd-Whitcomb-Horston-Magbegor-Fankam Mendijadeu was an impressive +7.2 in 120 minutes together last season. Now they get to add Ogwumike (still a top ten player in the WNBA) and Diggins-Smith (who sat out last season but was literally First Team All-WNBA the two seasons before that) to that mix. That seven-deep is going to make an absolutely STAR playoff rotation.

I’ll finish with a second hot take—Jordan Horston is the biggest pivot player for the 2024 season. The ninth overall pick in last season’s draft had an AMAZING rookie season… on one half of the ball. She proved capable of picking up WNBA defensive schemes at a remarkable level and was a key part of that aforementioned lineup late last season. However, for as good as she was, she gave it all back and more on the other end. She was, quite literally, the worst offensive player in the league last season by win shares, which makes the fact that she was in such a strong lineup all the more impressive. If the 22-year-old can get to even replacement level on the offensive end, the Storm are really going to be scary. If she can make a massive second-year leap, they could be in the title conversation. Because, really, she could basically turn herself into what Gabby Williams was in her prime for this team. The perfect two-way wing connecting Skylar, Nneka, the shooters, and the bigs.   

Betting Advice: So if Horston appears to make that leap at some point this season, I will likely be on the Storm in some way or another. As is, I love their floor and will likely be on their regular season win total over before the season. There is also a +2000 Seattle win title in the market if you look around a bit, and I am going to make that my second official title bet for this article.

From a player perspective, as much as I love her, I’ll be all over Magbegor unders. Her usage (and surface stats) took a big jump last season after Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird cleared out, but now there are two stars back in Seattle, and while that’s great news for the city, it’s bad news for her surface level stats. However, I might give her a look if the books give us a Defensive Player of the Year market. This defense should be special, and Ezi has established herself as a premier defender, with back-to-back Second Team All-Defense appearances the last two years. Only Wilson and Stewart tallied more stocks than Ezi last season.

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New York Liberty

Players In: Leonie Fiebich, Stephanie Mawuli, Ivana Dojkić, Okako Adika, Brianna Fraser, #11 Pick

Players Out: Han Xu, Stefanie Dolson, Jocelyn Willoughby, Marine Johannes

Rotation: Courtney Vandersloot, Sabrina Ionescu, Betnijah Laney, Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones // Kayla Thornton, Ivana Dojkic, Nyara Sabally, Leonie Fiebich

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +260

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +250

Free Agency Takeaways: Fresh off a stinging WNBA Finals loss, the Liberty chose to make their changes at the margins of this roster, rather than do anything too notable. Ivana Dojkic is a relative like-for-like for Marine Johannes who will almost certainly miss the 2024 season due to the W’s prioritization rules. I think she could potentially be an even better fit, though, as she trades in some of Johannes' flash and high ceiling for a higher floor and better defense—something the Liberty backcourt is in desperate need of.

The big name to keep an eye on is Leonie Fiebich, though. The 24-year-old German is currently playing in the Olympics Qualifying Tournament with lots of WNBA talent, and looking pretty good doing it. At 6-4, but a little stronger in the post than Han Xu, she should provide the Liberty frontcourt a bit more backbone if Jonquel Jones or Breanna Stewart need a breather.

Betting advice: These last two teams are going to be a little boring here. Not much changed, and they remain the teams to beat—for now.

For player props, I’ll say to keep an eye on what New York is doing with Jonquel Jones’ minutes. They can fluctuate notably and lead to good betting edges if you’re on the right side of that fluctuation. 

Las Vegas Aces

Players In: Morgan Jones, Megan Gustafson, Kamaria McDaniel, Bria Hartley

Players Out: Cayla George, Riquna Williams, Alaina Coates

Rotation: Chelsea Gray, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young, A’ja Wilson, Candace Parker // Alysha Clark, Kiah Stokes, Megan Gustafson, Sydney Colson, Kierstan Bell

Pre-FA Title Odds (FanDuel): +110

Current Title Odds (Consensus averaged): +100

Free Agency Takeaways: Not a whole lot happened here, but the addition of Gustafson is one I really like. Kiah Stokes will be rehabbing an injury to start the season, and Gustafson is quietly one of the more efficient offensive players in the WNBA, with a career effective field goal percentage (.560) that would rank eighth all time if qualified. Of course, she does so on very low usage, but that’s what makes this fit so perfect—she’s going to have to do basically zero heavy lifting. Add one of the most efficient offensive players to maybe the most efficient offense of all time, and it’s a recipe for success. (Plus, Pancakes the Dog is immaculate for the vibes, of course.)

Betting Advice: Not much right now. It's funny that two new semisuperteams formed, and the Aces saw their title odds get shorter. There are some smart folks out there already on +100 for their title chances, but I can’t get myself to tie up a significant amount of money for almost six months when not a single game has happened yet. I do think they are the favorites—prohibitive at that—but there are even more challengers to their throne this year, and while the Liberty very much didn’t look up to the direct challenge in the Finals, their respective odds reflect that already. 

Instead, if you want a piece of the Aces, I’d go the Wilson route, betting her to take back the MVP crown after we had a bit of a Hakeem-David Robinson Finals last year, which will certainly not be far from voter minds this season. That market is not out yet, but make sure to follow in the Action app (@TurveyBets) for that and many more WNBA futures as they drop.