In the first two weeks of the 2025 WNBA regular season, the league’s top teams have picked up right where they left off in 2024.
Last year, the New York Liberty and Minnesota Lynx each won at least 30 games and met in the WNBA Finals, where New York won its first championship. Now, both teams are 5-0 and early favorites to play for another title.
It would be the third time in league history that teams have met in the WNBA Finals in back-to-back seasons, with both previous occurrences involving one of these franchises. The Houston Comets defeated the Liberty in both 1999 and 2000, while the Los Angeles Sparks and Lynx split the Finals series in 2016 and 2017.
This is also the third time two different teams have started a season 5-0. It happened first with the Detroit Shock and Liberty in 2007 and then with the Sparks and Lynx in 2016, the first year of their back-to-back WNBA Finals meetings.
Liberty firing on all offensive cylinders
For the reigning champion Liberty, offense has been the key to success. Their 91.6 points per game through five contests ranks fifth-most in league history.
Only two other teams have ever scored at least 90 points per game during a 5-0 start — the 2018 Sun and the…
