The 2025 Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) regular season gets underway with six teams on the slate Friday night. The entire tripleheader will be broadcast on ION, beginning at 7:30 p.m. ET with the Atlanta Dream and Washington Mystics or the Minnesota Lynx and Dallas Wings. At 10:00 p.m. ET, the slate wraps up with the Los Angeles Sparks taking on the league’s newest entry, the Golden State Valkyries.
Let’s build our bankroll with our best WNBA bets for Friday, May 16th’s game Lynx vs. Wings.
Friday’s Best WNBA Picks: Lynx vs. Wings
WNBA odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook | All picks are for 1 unit
Minnesota Lynx (-250) at Dallas Wings (+198) | O/U 164 (-106/-114)
The Lynx and Wings lock horns at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas, in the regular season opener. All eyes will be on rookie Paige Bueckers, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft. She is another new face of the league and looks to make a splash in her debut.
The Lynx continues to be a very dangerous team, especially as long as superstar Napheesa Collier is in the Twin Cities. The MVP of Unrivaled and the defending Western Conference champs are a tough draw for Bueckers and the Wings, as this team is hungry for a championship.
Minnesota has all five starters back from last season’s team, which came up just short of the New York Liberty for the 2024 title. While Collier and the other four returning starters get a lot of credit for offense, this was a lockdown defense last season, too, limiting foes to just a 41% defensive field-goal percentage, tops in the league.
These teams split a four-game regular-season series in 2024, with Dallas going 3-1 against the spread (ATS). However, we’ll back the defending Western Conference champs to stand tall, firing out of the chute with a road win and cover as favorites, while going with the over. The total has gone high at a 7-1-1 clip in the past nine meetings in this series since July 14th, 2022.
Picks: Lynx -5.5 (-110) & Over 164 Points (-106)
