The WNBA season is fast approaching and while there is plenty to be excited about, there are some things to be cautious of as well.
Here are three things to keep an eye on heading into this year of WNBA action:
Is there such a thing as too much basketball?
The number of regular season games has increased throughout the 2020s. In 2022, it jumped to 36 games, followed by 40 games in 2023 and 2024. Now in 2025, it will be the first 44-game season in WNBA history.
More basketball is great, but this might be too brutal to be sustainable with the crammed summer calendar. Contracts are still not where they need to be, and while that (hopefully) will be a different story when there is a new CBA, it feels like there are currently too many games during the summer.
Is the Commissioner’s Cup necessary?
The good thing about the WNBA is that players compete at a high level on a nightly basis. However, that means the Commissioner’s Cup feels a bit flat. In the NBA, the NBA Cup works because players play with less intensity during the regular…
