Sunday’s WNBA slate promises one of the most intriguing matchups of the season. The Indiana Fever, led by second-year phenom Caitlin Clark, will take on A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces, winners of two of the last three WNBA championships.
Las Vegas swept the four-game season series in 2024, but the circumstances couldn’t be any more different as these squads head for their first highly anticipated showdown of the 2025 campaign.
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With a rebuilt roster and a new head coach on the sidelines, the Fever appear to be a legitimate title contender. Despite a 6-6 record (4-3 when Clark plays), Indiana has the third-best odds to win the WNBA Finals on BetMGM — trailing only the reigning champions, the New York Liberty, and last year’s runner-up, the Minnesota Lynx.
Clark has followed up her historic rookie season by averaging 19.9 points, 5.7 rebounds and 8.7 assists while shooting 41.7 percent from the field and 35.5 percent from 3-point range. She’s already recorded a triple-double and dropped 32 points, eight rebounds and nine assists in her return from a hamstring injury to knock off the Liberty, handing the defending champs their first loss of the season following a 9-0 start.
The Fever are still putting the pieces together, but they’ve already clinched a spot in the 2025 Commissioner’s Cup final, which has regularly been a predictor of postseason success. In 2023 and 2024, the teams that made the Cup final also went on to meet in the WNBA Finals.
On the other hand, the Aces (5-7) have gotten off to their worst start since Wilson’s rookie season in 2018. Wilson missed a few games due to concussion protocol, but the issues run deeper. Once virtually unbeatable, Las Vegas now ranks in the bottom half of the league in offensive and defensive rating and has already endured multiple 20-point losses. Six-time All-Star Jewell Loyd (11.5 points per game) has also struggled to get acclimated.
Even still, Wilson has played transcendent basketball. The three-time MVP and two-time Defensive Player of the Year leads the Aces in points, rebounds, blocks and steals per game, highlighting her immense importance to this team.
Wilson, who sustained a concussion against the Los Angeles Sparks on June 11, returned to the lineup in Friday’s loss to the Seattle Storm. She put up 20 points and a team-high 14 rebounds.
The Aces and Fever will face off two more times after Sunday. Indiana hosts Las Vegas on July 3 and 24.
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