The 2025 WNBA regular season is entering its final stretch, but we know which eight teams will be vying for the championship trophy when the playoffs begin Sunday. The remaining five teams that have been eliminated -- the Connecticut Sun , Chicago Sky , Dallas Wings , Washington Mystics and Los Angeles Sparks -- will focus on their offseason.
This is expected to be one of the most pivotal offseasons in WNBA history. The league and the players are negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA); two new teams in Portland and Toronto will join the league and hold an expansion draft; and there will be an unprecedented number of free agents given many players signed one-year deals after the players' association (WNBPA) opted last October to terminate the current CBA. The d