The Minnesota Lynx (22-8) have come out of the Olympic break on a strong note, winning five-consecutive games since the resumption of the 2024 WNBA season in mid-August, and having officially clinched a spot in the playoffs, they can now focus on playing for postseason seeding.
Though the Lynx have been in third place in the WNBA standings for much of the regular season, they’re now within a half game of the second-place Connecticut Sun. Back-to-back wins over the Las Vegas Aces have put some distance between Minnesota and the defending champions in the standings, and they’ve also gone a long way in preparing the Lynx for the playoffs, according to head coach Cheryl Reeve.
“More than anything, we wanted to make sure we had the appropriate level of compete,” Reeve told media after her team defeated Las Vegas for the second time in three days. “We talked about this being a really valuable time. This is playoff basketball.” Reeve went on to cite the lack of that competitiveness as a reason why the Lynx fell to Connecticut in last year’s playoffs.
It’s hard not to feel good about Minnesota’s chances in 2024, though, at least not when Napheesa Collier is playing the best basketball of her career. The star forward has been incredible since returning from the…
