💪 Layup Lines: Storming to the playoffs

Happy Friday and welcome back to Layup Lines, your quick recap of what’s going on in the WNBA. I hope you’re able to fulfill a childhood dream this weekend!

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⛈ Storm win as 9 point underdogs

• The Storm’s season started coming unglued in part because they were losing close games to good teams in the 4th quarter. Last night, Seattle stormed back (ha!) from a 21-point deficit by scoring 60 second half points, handing the Lynx just their second loss at home this year, 93-79.

  • Skylar Diggins talking as much trash as she does is fun, but it’s hard to see Minnesota not taking this personally if they meet again in the playoffs.

• In last night’s other two games, New York blew out the suddenly comatose Mystics while Chicago kept it a lot closer than expected against Phoenix thanks to a monster 15 point, 20 rebound game from Angel Reese.

📺 Today’s games

• The over in the Chicago / Phoenix game missed by two points last night, so we went 1-2 and are now 81-93 this season with $233 remaining to wager.

• There are two games tonight, both on Ion — Dallas @ Atlanta (7:30pm ET) and Indiana @ Los Angeles (10:00pm)

  • The Wings are really banged up and haven’t played defense in months, but 15.5 points is among the higher spreads I’ve seen this season.

    • Bet: Atlanta / Dallas over 165.5, $50 to win $44.

  • The Sparks are going for a 4-0 regular season sweep of Indiana, which would normally scare me if not for the Fever being as thin as they are at guard right now.

    • Bet: Los Angeles -2, $50 to win $45.

👀 Standings update

• Such a big win for 7th place Seattle, which now has a two game lead on 10th place L.A. with four games left.

  • Washington might as well be eliminated, so the final playoff seed is going to come down to the expansion Valkyries and the Sparks.

• Just 1.5 games separate 2nd from 5th!

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— Everett Cook, Founder & Editor