WNBA Finals 2025: Mercury vs. Aces news, live updates from Game 1 as MVP A'ja Wilson, Becky Hammon seek third championship in 4 seasons Yahoo Sports Staff October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM 0 [How to watch | Live blog] The 2025 WNBA Finals have arrived, with the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury set to fac...
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Yahoo Sports Staff October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The 2025 WNBA Finals have arrived, with the Las Vegas Aces and Phoenix Mercury set to face off at Michelob Ultra Arena Friday night.
The No. 4 seed Mercury are well rested after eliminating the top-seeded Minnesota Lynx on Sunday in four games, while the No. 2 seed Aces were pushed to the brink by the underdog Indiana Fever on Tuesday night in a Game 5 overtime thriller.
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The Aces' path to the Finals at one point looked impossible — they struggled through the first half of the season, but got hot at the right time in August to rattle off a 16-game win streak to end the regular season. Now they're in dynasty-building mode, trying to win their third championship in four seasons. The Mercury, meanwhile, lost in the 2021 Finals, and last won a championship in 2014. Their star, Alyssa Thomas, has played in 54 career playoff games, but she's still searching for her first WNBA championship.
How to watch Mercury vs. Aces in Game 1 of the 2025 WNBA Finals
Date: Friday, October 3Start time: 8 p.m. ETLocation: Michelob Ultra Arena | Las Vegas, NevadaTV channel, live stream: ESPN
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Live3 updates - Sat, October 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM GMT+2Yahoo Sports StaffCathy Engelbert addresses this week's comments by Napheesa Collier
In her pregame address to media, Cathy Engelbert remarks: "If the players in the W don't feel appreciated and valued by the league, then we have to do better and I have to do better."
— Alexa Philippou (@alexaphilippou) October 3, 2025
- Sat, October 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM GMT+2Yahoo Sports StaffCathy Engelbert to address media after tumultuous week in the WNBA
WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert is set to address the media just days after Lynx star Napheesa Coller publicly called her out for her handling of multiple issues.
As Yahoo Sports' Cassandra Negley wrote:
There is no more greenery in the WNBA landscape.
Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier went scorched earth in her exit interview on Tuesday, as clear a sign as any that there is considerable distance between the players and the league one month out from the deadline for a collective bargaining agreement.
Collier uprooted everything in her path, taking aim at the league office as "tone-deaf," "dismissive," willing to sabotage its own product and being more about "control and power" than innovation or collaboration. Few athletes in the history of any sport have taken such a direct approach to calling out a perceived failure in leadership as Collier did on Tuesday.
"We have the best players in the world," Collier said in a four-minute statement before taking questions with local reporters in Minneapolis. "We have the best fans in the world. But right now we have the worst leadership in the world."
- Sat, October 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM GMT+2Yahoo Sports StaffThe stage is set in Las Vegas...
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