Welcome to our daily WNBA picks for Monday, August 24, 2026! Each day, I analyze the WNBA schedule and odds, check the latest team news, and prepare my predictions and best bets.
Here are my best WNBA bets for today:
Daily WNBA Picks for August 24
| WNBA BETTING PICK | ONLINE BOOKMAKER |
|---|---|
| Golden State Valkyries vs. Minnesota Lynx -4.5 (-112) | Lucky Rebel |
| Atlanta Dream -10.5 (-112) vs. Los Angeles Sparks | Lucky Rebel |
Best WNBA Predictions Today (With Reasoning), August 24
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Golden State Valkyries vs. Minnesota Lynx: Lynx -4.5 (-112)
The Lynx (31-7) are home favorites here, meaning Minnesota is expected to win and must do so by five or more points for this bet to cash. At -112, this is a standard spread play with a clean lean toward the home side. Minnesota comes in healthy outside of Courtney Williams, and with Napheesa Collier and Olivia Miles both confirmed to play, the Lynx have their full offensive firepower available.
GAME CHANGER. 🥽
Liv is now the fastest player in WNBA HISTORY to record 700+ PTS and 200+ AST. pic.twitter.com/GXcbSNDftl
— Minnesota Lynx (@minnesotalynx) August 22, 2026
Golden State (25-11) heads into this game having lost two straight games, including a brutal 11-point home loss to a shorthanded Minnesota squad just last Wednesday. That result stings for the Valkyries and raises real questions about their ability to compete with a fully healthy Lynx roster. The Valkyries are 4-3 ATS as road underdogs this season, so they aren’t a pushover in this role, but that recent head-to-head result is hard to ignore.
Minnesota is 10-9 ATS at home, which is a modest, but positive, record in this spot. The Lynx are only 8-9 ATS as home favorites, so this isn’t a lock by any means. But the combination of a healthy roster, a dominant performance against this same Valkyries’ team less than a week ago, and Golden State’s current two-game skid makes Minnesota the right side at -4.5 at WNBA betting sites.
Atlanta Dream vs. Los Angeles Sparks: Dream -10.5 (-112)
Atlanta (24-13) rolls into this one with serious momentum. The Dream have won three straight and averaged 106.7 points per game during that stretch. That’s an offense clicking on all cylinders. When a team is scoring at that clip, covering a double-digit spread against a struggling defense becomes a very realistic ask.
ADD A NEW CAREER-HIGH TO THE ACCOLADES 🙌
With ANOTHER double-double and 31 points in the playoff-clinching effort, Angel Reese is YOUR @albertapp Player of the Game! pic.twitter.com/z7FjJEbJXE
— Atlanta Dream (@AtlantaDream) August 23, 2026
The Sparks (13-24) are in rough shape right now. Los Angeles has dropped six of their last seven games and owns the second-worst defense in the league. As a home underdog, they’ve covered the spread just four times in ten tries. That’s a 40% cover rate, which tells you the Sparks don’t just lose, they tend to lose big.
Atlanta’s ATS record on the road sits at 8-9, which is perfectly respectable. More importantly, the matchup sets up beautifully. A high-powered offense on a hot streak against a defense that can’t stop anyone? The Dream don’t just win this game, but they win it comfortably.
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