Overview
- Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier leads the league with 23.0 points per game on .531/.352/.922 shooting and will anchor the Lynx offense.
- Sabrina Ionescu has earned Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors for a second consecutive week as New York adjusts without Breanna Stewart.
- The Liberty will face depth challenges with Stewart out and Natasha Cloud downgraded to questionable, elevating roles for players like Marine Johannès and Stephanie Talbot.
- Both teams seek to rebound from recent setbacks—Minnesota dropped its first home game to the Atlanta Dream and New York fell 92-82 to the Dallas Wings.
- Tonight marks the first regular-season meeting between last year’s WNBA finalists, almost ten months after New York clinched its inaugural title over Minnesota.