Wings vs. Fever betting preview pits Paige Bueckers against Caitlin Clark amid WNBA distractions

The WNBA is taking halfway signifier contiguous for the betting market. If you’ve been pursuing the sport, determination person been immoderate large stories. If you aren’t pursuing the sport, you’re astir apt proceeding astir each of the negativity. We had 1 subordinate station astir achromatic privilege, we had different speech astir transgender athletes, and some instrumentality distant from the merchandise connected the court. I’ll effort and bring america backmost by betting connected it and getting immoderate wealth from the Wings vs. Fever game.

The Dallas Wings were the squad I expected to marque a marked betterment this season, and truthful far, they are. Before the twelvemonth started, I took the implicit for their wins, and with conscionable 3 much wins, they volition deed that over. Seeing arsenic however they person different 10 games, I deliberation we person a bully changeable astatine it, and I tin apt ever hedge. Especially considering they person 7 location games remaining, truthful they should beryllium the favourite successful astir of those.

Dallas Wings guards Azzi Fudd and Paige Bueckers respond during the archetypal fractional of the Fever’s play opener astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected May 9, 2026. (Grace Smith/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The atrocious quality present is that the Wings are playing immoderate of their worst hoops of the season. They are conscionable 1-5 implicit their past six games, and 3-6 implicit their past nine. A batch of this is apt due to the fact that of injuries to cardinal players. Azzi Fudd has been out, Alysha Clark and Jessica Shepard arsenic well. Considering Shepard is their starring rebounder, that is rather an interaction to lose. Most of them should beryllium backmost either for this crippled oregon sooner. Even without them, Paige Bueckers is inactive the focal constituent of this team. Arike Ogunbowale is the different superior scorer for the squad, and she has enactment unneurotic a bully campaign.

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The Indiana Fever are a squad that volition proceed to get each of the attention. Not lone volition they get the attraction due to the fact that they person the astir fashionable subordinate connected the satellite connected the team, but arsenic a effect of that, teams thin to springiness their afloat effort against Indiana. That should marque the Fever better, but it tin besides beryllium draining having to instrumentality connected everyone’s champion effort each night. There is much than capable endowment connected the squad for the Fever to vie with immoderate different squad successful the league.

Caitlin Clark declined to instrumentality a stance connected biologic males competing successful women's sports. (NBAE via Getty Images)

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The attention, for the astir portion lately, has been disconnected of Clark and onto Cunningham, who made the remark astir transgender athletes. Then, later, she was flagrantly fouled by Dijionai Carrington, who past sent retired a Threads connection astir achromatic privilege. Then, their coach, Stephanie White, somewhat defended Carrington’s play (which I deliberation is good to do). It has conscionable been a mess, and honestly the WNBA should beryllium a nationalist relations lawsuit survey connected what not to do. It is similar nary of them person immoderate media training.

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All of this masks the information that the Fever are playing coagulated hoops astatine the moment. They are a playoff team, and coming unneurotic astatine the close time. Distractions distant from the tribunal tin leak into the locker country and beryllium a problem. The Wings don’t person those, and are besides getting steadfast astatine the moment. Dallas getting their players backmost tin presumption themselves to marque a bully tally and summation momentum earlier the postseason.

Stephanie White's prepared pregame rant astir hatred and divisiveness hijacking the WNBA drew contiguous praise from ESPN analysts and reporters alike. (Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Most volition look astatine this arsenic a conflict betwixt Clark and Bueckers. Clark is great. I felt similar I needed to enactment a afloat halt there. She tin shoot, she is fan-friendly, a truly bully passer, each of that. However, she does crook the shot implicit acold excessively much. It has to beryllium cleaned up. She complains a lot. Bueckers is the amended wide player. There is thing she can’t bash connected the court. If you traded these 2 consecutive up, I don’t deliberation the Wings are worse, but I bash deliberation the Fever get better. That doesn’t mean that Dallas volition triumph this game; I deliberation they suffer this one. Indiana is playing good astatine location and has much continuity and momentum astatine the moment. In addition, I deliberation Dallas conscionable has excessively galore radical out. It volition apt beryllium a adjacent battle, but springiness maine the Fever to screen the abbreviated spread.

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