Sunday Night Hoops in the W — Expert Picks in the WNBA Today
Written by: Varun Sharma
Last Update: Sun Aug 23, 2026, 3:40 pm ET
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The weekend has come and gone, I hope you took advantage. Today's Sunday, so kick up those feet, pour up that coffee and let's enjoy some WNBA hoops. We've got four games on the docket today and I've got three plays locked in for tonight.
Let's get straight to it.
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Today's Best Bets
Kamilla Cardoso o25.5 P/R (-111) | Lucky Rebel
Let's kick it off the in the Midwest. The Indiana Fever will take on the Chicago Sky tonight at Wintrust Arena and the Fever are missing bodies. Aliyah Boston will miss tonight's game in Chicago with a lower leg injury, it'll be just the third game she's missed this year and first since early July.
The Fever have gone 2-1 without Boston this year, but both wins have come against the league's worst team; the Seattle Storm.
With Boston off the floor, the team's defensive rating jumps 4-points to 112.8 and in the three games without her; they're giving up an average of 97 points per contest. Boston leads Indiana in rebounding this year, she's the team's third leading scorer and main deterrent in the paint.
Without Boston in the lineup, Dominique Malonga recorded 28 points and 14 rebounds in the one matchup she played. In the lone loss without Boston, the Fever gave up 24/8 to Nneka Ogwunmike and 21/9 to Dearica Hamby.
Kamilla Cardoso leads the Sky in both points per game and rebounds per game. She's averaging 14.8 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.8 offensive rebounds per game.
At home her scoring numbers jump to 15.4 points per game and she's shooting almost 7% better from the field and free throw line in her home arena. In her last 10 games, Cardoso's averaging 16.7 points, 10.0 rebounds and 3.9 offensive rebounds per game.
She's cleared this in 4 of her last 5 games and she's coming off a 14/10 game against one of the league's toughest defenses; the Valkyries. The Fever rank 13th in points allowed and will be without their best defender/rebounder tonight.
Chelsea Gray o21.5 PRA (-110) | Lucky Rebel
The Las Vegas Aces are north of the border tonight and finishing off their weekend in Toronto, Canada. The Toronto Tempo went nearly a full calendar month in between wins, before securing a W against the Portland Fire the other night.
The team started okay, winning 7 of their first 12 games as a franchise and finishing their first month of the season just under .500. Since then, the Tempo have won just two games, but they've played in 18. It's getting ugly in Toronto.
The Tempo rank 13th in opponent effective field goal percentage, 15th in opponent offensive rebound rate, 15th in points allowed and 10th in opponent 3-point percentage.
We're seeing a total just over 180 in this game with a 10-point spread favoring the road team. The Aces have been great and they come into this game with A'ja Wilson possibly sitting due to a sore back.
The Aces play the Tempo again on Friday and till then they'll have plenty time to rest. I could see A'ja getting the night off here in Toronto to get the extra few days of rest and that's why I've shifted focus to Chelsea Gray.
Gray finished with 14 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in her lone matchup with Toronto this year. She shot 57% from the field and went 3/5 from beyond the arc. If Wilson does sit, I'm expecting her usage to fall to both Gray and Jackie Young.
Washington Mystics -3.5 (-110) | Lucky Rebel
The Washington Mystics are absolutely hooping right now and this team is just incredibly fun to watch. The tandem they have in the front court of Shakira Austin and Kiki Iriafen is just incredibly fun to watch and insanely hard to score against.
The Mytics rank 2nd in opponent effective field goal percentage, 2nd in points allowed, 2nd in opponent offensive rebound rate and 1st in rebounds allowed. They don't give up a ton of points and they give up even fewer rebounds.
The teams now dropped 3 of their last 5 games and tonight they kick off a 4-game road trip leading into the FIBA World Cup break. All three of their losses came to the only two teams above them in the standings, the Las Vegas Aces (x2) and the Minnesota Lynx.
The Portland Fire are coming home after a 3-game road trip that ended in Toronto on Friday. The Fire rank 12th in points allowed, 14th in opponent free throw rate, 14th in opponent offensive rebounding rate and 14th in turnover rate.
The Fire have not been good this year and now coming home from the East Coast with just one day to rest in between; feels like a perfect Mystics bounce back.
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