As the 2025 WNBA season approaches its All-Star weekend, the Minnesota Lynx head to Chicago for two games against the Sky in the span of three days as they continue a daunting run of games.
Since Minnesota (18-3) entered July, last season’s league runner-up has played six games in the span of 10 days. After a loss in the Commissioner’s Cup championship game to a Caitlin Clark-less Indiana Fever on July 1, the Lynx won four of the next five games. The efforts came with a fair share of dramatic finishes and standout role-player performances.
“We have some players that are really good players that are struggling to find the bottom,” Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve said. “Shots aren’t falling as much as they’re accustomed to. Finding ways to win when your best players are not playing their best is something that we should be really happy about.”
Second-year Minnesota guard Courtney Williams has excelled in the past seven regular season games with an average of 16.4 points that is above her 14.0 season average. Williams scored 16 points Thursday, with a team high 18 points from reserve guard Natisha Hiedeman a 91-82 win over the Los Angeles Sparks.
The Sky (6-13) are showing improvement after a slow start to the season under first year head coach Tyler Marsh, even if the results are still not consistently falling their way. After one week off, Chicago has one win in three games, but losses to the Lynx and Washington Mystics went down to the final buzzer.
“We fight, through everything that we’ve that we’ve gone through this season, everything that we continue to go through game to game,” Marsh said. “We don’t break and we won’t break and regardless of what the record shows. I got a team of fighters in a locker room full of fighters.”
Chicago pulled out an 87-76 win over the Dallas Wings on Wednesday with 15 points and 11 rebounds from Angel Reese for the forward’s seventh double-double in a row. It the longest active streak in the league. There also was an overlapping six-game streak where Reese had at least 15 rebounds, a WNBA record.
Chicago and Minnesota met on July 6 when the Sky surged to 24-10 first-quarter lead before the Lynx won 80-75. The teams will close out the four-game regular-season series July 22 at Minnesota.
–Field Level Media
