The WNBA’s 2025 regular-season schedule will give us an immediate look at both the newest team and the newest No. 1 pick on opening day on May 16. But we will have to wait for the first WNBA Finals rematch.
The league released its 2025 schedule Monday — broadcast and streaming details will be released next spring — with the Dallas Wings and their top pick (expected to be UConn‘s Paige Bueckers) and the expansion Golden State Valkyries both playing on the first day. The Wings will host the Minnesota Lynx and the Valkyries will host the Los Angeles Sparks.
But the New York Liberty and the Lynx won’t meet until July 30, the first of their four matchups. That’s unless they meet again (like last season) in the Commissioner’s Cup final, which is July 1. The Lynx won that 2024 title while the Liberty won a hotly contested five-game Finals series for their first WNBA championship.
A lot will happen between now and the start of the league’s…