After a week of intense games including one of the most watched WNBA games ever, Week 7 finds the league's hierarchy of power in flux. Some teams have been revived by the return of key players (welcome back, Chelsea Gray) while others like the Sparks and Dream are free-falling in the standings. Napheesa Collier and the Minnesota Lynx battled it out against the New York Liberty for the Commissioner's Cup Championship, earning an extra $500,000 to be split among the squad.
The Liberty kept rolling in the regular season easily dispatching the Sparks and Dream, two of the league's most injured teams. Elsewhere, A'ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces are going all in thanks to her dominant play lifting the team toward the top of the standings once more. With all of that going on, here is where the chips fall this week: Upcoming: Washington (7/2) Outside of Dearica Hamby's MVP and MI-caliber play, the Los Angeles Sparks don't have much to celebrate.
The Sparks are not very ball secure gifting teams 20 points nightly off turnovers and are now lacking rim protection allowing teams to carve them up at the cup. The team is looking at a six-game losing streak and will be without one of the league's best shot blockers for the duration of the season, and it has now been announced that the team will be without their breakout player from last season Lexie Brown who could be sidelined until after the with Crohn's disease. Upcoming: Seattle (6/29), Seattle (7/1), Phoenix (7/3), Atlanta (7/5) The .
