WNBA Friday Preview and Predictions: 3 Best Bets for June 20

The WNBA playoff race is starting to heat up in the early season as the Las Vegas Aces find themselves in 5th place out West after dropping two straight to the red-hot Lynx and Mercury.

With Seattle and Golden State both playing some great basketball, can Becky Hammon bring back that offensive firepower tonight to get this incredible backcourt moving and grooving once again?

Wings +4 over Sun

The Dallas Wings are slowly starting to gain some momentum this season, narrowly losing to the Aces in Vegas and defeating the Valkyries for their first home win.

Paige is playing like a star, serving as their secondary playmaker alongside Arike as well as getting active defensively with 10 steals over her last three games. The Sun has lost four straight (3 by 12 or more) and scoring just 71.6 PPG this season, they won’t be able to keep up with this backcourt.

Mystics +9 over Dream

Washington is a sleeper team out East, and although sitting just below .500 on the year, you can’t take them lightly. This team is led by their length on defense, which allows just 40.9% shooting from the field and 30.4% shooting from beyond the arc – both rank top 3.

Washington rarely gets blown out and gets the game down to the last few minutes most of the time. They have lost by less than 10 points to Golden State, Vegas, Phoenix, Indiana, and New York over the last month.

After a solid win in Chicago, where Skyes went for 32 points while Citron and Iriafen played positive minutes, I’ll take the Mystics to use this momentum to roll into Atlanta and create another tight matchup.

Aces +2 over Storm

What in the world is happening in Vegas? The 5-6 Aces are in a massive hole, failing to string together two straight wins since June 1st.

This team is allowing 82.5 PPG, opposed to scoring 79.1 PPG through their first 11 games, and has lost games to some questionable teams. With that being said, I cannot see this team losing three straight to the top-tier Western Conference opponents.

They were humbled against Phoenix and Minnesota this past week, but should be able to find some spark from Gray, Young, and Loyd to get back into the win column tonight.