The Lynx were not just the best team in the WNBA, they were lapping the field.
The Aces, who had fallen to fourth place in the league in 2024 after winning consecutive titles in 2022-23, were a dismantled dynasty.
Lynx star Napheesa Collier, as the best player on the best team and the league’s leading scorer, was a certainty to win the league’s Most Valuable Player award.
On Tuesday night, the Lynx will play at Indiana in their penultimate regular-season game. They will finish the regular season on Thursday against Golden State at Target Center.
The Lynx remain atop the league standings and have clinched home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, but the presumptions of early August will continue to be tested, this week and in the postseason.
The Lynx have earned the right to call themselves the best team in the league. They are tops in the WNBA in victories, home record, road record, conference record, points per game, points allowed per game, field-goal percentage, three-point shooting percentage and point differential.
But they’re no longer the hottest or scariest team in the league.