{"id":216959,"date":"2025-10-11T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T14:51:09","slug":"lynx-open-as-favorites-to-win-2026-wnba-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/216959\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx open as favorites to win 2026 WNBA title"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Las Vegas Aces<\/a> and A’ja Wilson<\/a> cemented their legacies by winning their third WNBA title in four seasons, capping it off with a sweep of the Phoenix Mercury<\/a> in the 2025 WNBA Finals. Bookmakers are already looking ahead to the 2026 season and are favoring an up-and-coming powerhouse with a different potential MVP, though.<\/p>\n

The Minnesota Lynx<\/a> opened as the consensus favorite to win the WNBA title in 2026, showing +225 odds at ESPN BET. Other sportsbooks across the marketplace also have the Napheesa Collier<\/a>-led squad favored but at longer odds, with FanDuel maxing the market out at +350.<\/p>\n

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Not every major book sees Minnesota, who fell to Phoenix in the 2025 semifinals, taking the crown from Las Vegas next season: BetMGM has the Aces favored for the 2026 title at +300, with the Lynx coming in with the third-best odds at +400. Las Vegas is at least tied for second at every other shop.<\/p>\n

High on most odds boards are the Indiana Fever<\/a>, who are tied with the Aces for second-best odds (+250) at ESPN BET. Indiana made an unexpected run to the WNBA semifinals this season, almost taking out Las Vegas in five games despite key injuries to Caitlin Clark<\/a> and Sophie Cunningham<\/a>, among others. The Fever are perennially one of the most popular future bets<\/a> among the betting public and are a huge liability for sportsbooks.<\/p>\n

The New York Liberty<\/a>, winners of the 2024 WNBA title, are also in the favorites mix, but the odds differ greatly from book to book, ranging anywhere from +330 to +700 across the marketplace. This season’s runners-up, the Mercury, are right behind the Liberty on most odds boards but similarly have a broad range of odds, anywhere between +700 and +1100.<\/p>\n

The consensus longest odds on the board belong to the expansion Portland Fire and Toronto Tempo, who both show 250-1 odds for the 2026 title at ESPN BET. While expecting a championship from either of those franchises in their first WNBA seasons could be a stretch, the Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (+6000) showed there’s betting value to be had elsewhere for expansion teams: The squad blew by its preseason win total of 8.5 less than halfway through its inaugural season and made the playoffs despite preseason +1300 odds to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Las Vegas Aces and A’ja Wilson cemented their legacies by winning their third WNBA title in four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-216959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}