The Minnesota Lynx are off to their best start in years, and we’re reaching the point in the 2024 WNBA regular season where rumblings of a Lynx championship are getting louder.
There’s good reason for that. At 12-3, Minnesota is off to its best start to a season since 2017, and you don’t need to remind Lynx fans how things ended for that team. Minnesota won its fourth championship in seven seasons in 2017, bookending perhaps the longest dynasty in WNBA history, and while the Lynx of 2024 look significantly different than their most recent title-worthy iteration (save, of course, for head coach Cheryl Reeve), there’s plenty reason to get excited about them as a title contender.
For starters, forward Napheesa Collier is playing arguably the best basketball of her career, and that’s a high bar to clear. Collier established herself as a true superstar last season and has done nothing to lose that status in 2024; she’s one of two WNBA players to be averaging at least 20 points and 10 rebounds per game (Las Vegas’ A’ja Wilson is the other), and she’s doing her part as a playmaker, too, chipping in a career-high 3.6 assists per game.
