After a day off yesterday, the WNBA is back in full force, with 10 of the league’s 13 teams in action tonight as part of a five-game slate. The night will tip off with Paige Bueckers’ Dallas Wings facing Sabrina Ionescu and the defending champion New York Liberty and end with a trio of 10 p.m. ET games.
Here are my favorite player prop bets from tonight’s contests at DraftKings Sportsbook.
Sabrina Ionescu vs. Paige Bueckers – More Assists: Paige Bueckers (+160)
With two of the league’s most popular players facing off for the second time in their WNBA careers, this game will likely be the night’s most-watched. For fans in the New York City area, it’ll cost a minimum of $71 to get in — nearly as expensive as the New York Knicks’ cheapest ticket last season. With the game being billed as a battle between Ionescu and Bueckers, I had to choose a prop that pitted the two directly against each other.
Ionescu is in the middle of arguably the best stretch of her career, averaging 27.4 points per game across five games since her co-star Breanna Stewart went down with a bone bruise against the Los Angeles Sparks on July 26. She won Eastern Conference Player of the Month for the fifth time in her career and her first this season. Across that span, she’s led the league in usage rate among players who have appeared in all five games, and tasked with the greater scoring responsibility, she’s averaged only 4.8 assists per game.
Bueckers only trails Ionescu in assist average by 0.1 per game, and though Ionescu recorded five assists to her four during the teams’ previous matchup on July 28, Bueckers has averaged more assists per game since the All-Star break and recorded six or more in four of her last six games. The Wings have a more egalitarian offense than the Stewart-less Liberty; though Bueckers leads the team with a 23.1% usage rate across that span, Arike Ogunbowale is north of 20% as well, while Jonquel Jones’ usage rate is more than eight percentage points lower than Ionescu’s.
Cameron Brink 5+ Rebounds (+130)
To be fair, Brink hasn’t yet recorded more than four rebounds in a game as she slowly makes her way back from the torn ACL that ended her rookie season prematurely last June. So far, her minutes restriction has been pretty strict, as she’s yet to play more than 13 minutes in any contest, but with her Los Angeles Sparks on three days of rest, it’s possible that she’ll be able to play closer to 18 minutes tonight, although Sparks head coach Lynne Roberts hasn’t revealed anything regarding her plans for last season’s second overall pick.
Brink put on a defensive clinic Friday in the double-overtime clash against the Seattle Storm, notching four boards (two defensive), two steals, and three blocks in under 12 minutes of play. Her rebounding percentage is up from 14.6% in 2024 to 16.3% so far in 2025, and in their most recent six-game stretch without Caitlin Clark, the Indiana Fever have attempted layups at the second-highest clip while hitting them at the fourth-lowest and shot the lowest percentage from floater range. That’s a great recipe for one of the league’s best rim protectors to show off her prowess.
Kayla McBride O16.5 Points (+105)
The Minnesota Lynx were took a massive blow on Saturday when Napheesa Collier left the Lynx’s 111-58 win over the Las Vegas Aces with an ankle sprain. Collier will miss at least two weeks with the injury, decreasing her MVP odds from -900 to -500. With the superstar sidelined, Minnesota will instead turn to McBride, who’s scored 24 points in each of her last two games and averaged 19.2 points per game amid Collier’s five-game absence last season. In a 70-minute sample size, the most dominant four-woman combination featuring McBride, among her 10 most frequent groupings, actually doesn’t include Collier.
Seattle might make things difficult for McBride: its defensive rating is second only to the Lynx’s this season, and it’s actually been better than Minnesota on that side of the ball in the last 13 games. This season, the Storm have allowed just 6.9 made three-pointers per game on 31.9% accuracy, including just a 28.5% mark since the start of July, and a career-high 62.8% of McBride’s shots have come from deep this season. Still, the 33-year-old isn’t just a shooter; she’s made 66.7% of her restricted-area tries and 46.7% of her floater-range shots, too, so she can get downhill when she has to.
