2026 WNBA Championship Betting Lines - Basketball Odds

2026 WNBA Championship Betting Online

As the 2026 WNBA season approaches, opening on Friday, May 8, there is the positive development of further expansion, but the threat of a players' strike could ruin the momentum built over the past two years.

The Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo are the two new expansion teams for 2026, following the Golden State Valkyries' entry in 2025.

Caitlin Clark, the player who had the greatest impact in drawing interest to the WNBA, missed most of the 2025 season and seems to have been beaten down by the jealousy, hatred, and resentment of the rest of the league, which never drew mainstream attention before Clark’s arrival. Clark played in only 13 out of 44 regular season games for the Indiana Fever, who made the WNBA semifinals.

The threat of a strike by the WNBA is the height of absurdity. The WNBA is still not a profitable enterprise and has long been a welfare case of the NBA. The sense of entitlement among players who believe they are underpaid, even as the league is deep in the red, is off-putting to millions of potential fans who are struggling with their own economic issues.

The regular season ends on September 24 with the playoffs to follow.

For 2026, TV partners include ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, NBC, Peacock, USA Network, Amazon Prime, and Ion.

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WNBA Finals Results (2020)

WNBA Championships

The Houston Comets burned out after the 2008 season, yet they still hold a share of the WNBA's most championships. The club won the first four titles, beating New York in three of those matchups. LA won the next two titles behind three-time MVP Lisa Leslie. LA reached the Finals in 2003, losing to Detroit, and wouldn’t return until winning a third title in 2016.

Minnesota began an epic run in the 2010s, winning six Western Conference titles over seven seasons. The Lynx went on to win the WNBA championship four times, but a one-point loss to the Sparks in Game 5 of the 2016 Finals kept them from becoming the most successful franchise in league history.

Seattle became the third team to win four titles, knocking off Las Vegas in the 2020 WNBA Finals. Two years later, behind MVP A’ja Wilson, the Aces would win the franchise’s first title, and in 2023, they became the first repeat champions since LA in 2002.

After five WNBA Finals losses, the Liberty finally broke through in 2024, winning their first championship. They are one of three teams (LA, Phoenix) remaining from the WNBA's debut season in 1997, in their original locations.

Las Vegas made an unexpected return to the WNBA Finals in 2025, winning its third championship with the iconic A’ja Wilson, who was named the regular season and playoff MVP. Wilson led the WNBA in scoring for the 2025 season.

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