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Today we're going to talk aboutthe 2025 top NBA matchups, at
least for myself, at least formyself.
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a little bit.
But, like I said, today we'regoing to talk about the 2025 top
matchups of the WNBA at leastmine, at least mine.
So y'all might be wonderingwhat matchups are we going to do
?
I'm going to give about 10.
I'm going to give about 10, allright, reason why I feel like
that's a good number.
I feel like that's a goodnumber.
We'll track them along theseason to see how these matchups
progress, but for right now,let's go ahead and bring up the
listing, shall we so with number10,?
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With number 10, I'm going tomention my return games first.
So let's start it off with theDream vs Mercury and Mercury vs
Wings, right, because we haveBrittany Griner's return to the
Mercury, and then we also haveGriner's return to the Mercury
and then we also have Satu'sreturn to the Wings.
So you know, mercury are forboth of these return games.
There's one more return gameI'll mention, but we're going to
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save that for a little bitlater I will say that.
But these two games right now,these two players, they played
with these teams all theircareer.
More so BG, because she's beenthere what since 2013, 2014?
Woo, that's a while right.
So, again, seeing her returnfor the first time got to be
solid and keep in mind too it'snot like the Mercury aren't good
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.
They got Satu Zabli, they haveAlyssa Thomas, they have Clea
Copper.
It's going to be a solid bigthree going up against the
Dreams big three, which alsoencompasses ryan howard and
alicia gray.
But when we have sato running,burst the wings, we're going to
see a big three that's newlyformed but has some experience
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right individually, versus awings team that's still trying
to figure out their own identity.
They just drafted page beckeras a rekay still over there.
So that might be a good battleto watch.
Might favor the mercury on Onthat.
Mercury versus Dream.
I don't know, I could favor theDream for that one.
We'll see, but those would begood games to watch.
So again, those are my matchups, the return games.
There's some other ones, butfor right now we're just going
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to say that one, we're going tosay those two.
So, moving on to number nine, wehave Aaliyah Edwards battling
Nafisa Collier and BriannaStewart.
I'm sorry, brianna Stewart andNafisa Collier.
That's what is reading right onthe screen, right.
Well, the reason why I havethem there the Unrivaled League.
Ladies and gentlemen, if y'allwatch the Unrivaled League, it
was a good one, so definitely gotune in.
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If y'all haven't.
I've talked about it before, sogo peep if y'all haven't
already.
To those.
But Aaliyah Edwards, who wasjust a rookie last year, beat
Brianna Stewart in the firstround, wild right, like
ridiculous score, and did Stewiescore.
Oh, that's what we talk about.
And then she gave NafisaCollier a run for her money in
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the best of three.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Aaliyah Edwards went thedistance with Nafisa Collier,
and those are two of the best ofthree.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Aaliyah Edwards went thedistance with Nafisa Collier,
and those are two of the bestplayers, two of the faces of the
game for me, of the WNBA.
We got to see if it's the samelevel of expectations come WNBA
season.
So again, that's my matchup towatch Aaliyah Edwards versus
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Nafisa Collier and BreannaStewart.
I'm sorry, breanna Stewart andNafisa Collier, that's why I
have it on the screen, my bad.
Now let's move it up to numbereight, because this one gets
personal.
Ladies and gentlemen, kelseyPlum versus Paige Beckers.
Yeah, I went there Because, ifyou know, you know right.
But as a Sparks fan, I justknew we were going to get Paige
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Beckers and the fact that we didnot hurts me.
Congratulations, dallas Wings.
Because you know, y'all lostLuka Doncic, dallas, and they
figured you know what.
We can't give them Luka andPaige.
That's starting to make mebelieve in script writing,
ladies and gentlemen, because wecould have gotten Luka, and
Paige Should have had at leastPaige, but Paige should have had
at least Paige.
But they weren't going to dothat to Dallas fans.
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So, as a result, you guys gotPaige, but Kelsey Plum, the
Sparks got Kelsey Plum becausewe didn't get Paige Beckers.
So seeing who ends up becomingthe better player over time, oh,
that's going to be huge.
Because imagine the Sparks fanswe look and say what could have
been?
I'm saying that now and I saywe settled for Kelsey Plum and I
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like Kelsey Plum as a player.
I love Paige Beckers as aplayer, but again, that's going
to be interesting Sparks presentversus our possible future.
But that's enough about that,because I could talk about that
for a while.
Oh my gosh, number eight wasKelsey Plum versus Paige Beckers
.
Let's move on up to seven.
Right?
Seven is Sparks versus the Aces.
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That's right, it's not biasedeither.
It's not biased either.
Here's the reason.
Sparks actually do have a goodamount of talent this year,
ladies and gentlemen.
That's right, we got sometalent this year.
But here, here's the thingKelsey Plum and Derek Hamby used
to play for the Aces.
So, seeing that matchup, yougot to wonder because they were
traded away, is there someresentment?
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Are they going to play with alittle bit more age?
I'd like to see that.
Then it's a good marker forSparks fans too, because the
Aces are contenders.
So we get to see what we looklike at our best, because you
got to imagine De'Arica andKelsey are going to play at
their best right, specificallyfor these games.
So again, sparks versus Aces.
I'm tuning in, not just becauseI'm a fan, but because of the
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storylines that are following.
Now, moving on, we got to talkabout my number six matchup
Fever vs the Dream, the IndianaFever vs the Atlanta Dream.
Ladies and gentlemen, thatcould be a good one.
The reason why I say this therewas a listing for top fantasy
matchups or players, right, andthe Dream had six of the top 50
and the Fever had five of thetop 50.
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They were the top two highestteams in the WNBA, at least in
terms of fantasy ranked playersin the top 50.
Well, they also boast goodteams.
The Fever just acquired a lotof talent.
They have a strong startingfive and the bench doesn't look
bad.
And then the dream they havegood depth and they have a
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quality big three and dominatingplayers along the way.
Why not watch these matches?
Because again, both teams couldsurprise teams like the Liberty
, teams like the Aces.
So this matchup could start tosay, hey, maybe there's a new
sheriff in town and, who knows,we might even have a new rivalry
.
Let's figure that out.
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But I got to see this matchupand again we could be talking
about two contenders betweenthese two.
But let's move on up to the nextmatchup that I got, which is
Angel Reeds versus Kaitlyn Clark.
That's right, ladies andgentlemen, will the rivalry
continue?
Or is it just a pastime?
Because we do expect therivalry to add some, some energy
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to the game.
Right, it did last year, it didin the college game, so we
expect it to continue,especially with the, the stands
of caitlin clark and thedefenders of angel reese right,
constantly battling one.
I'm expecting to see that.
But also, how did they dominateon the court?
Again, rookie year, you know itwas good, but did you set the
bar a little too high?
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Are there going to be unfairexpectations of these two
players?
So again, I'm curious how therivalry will look going forward,
because last year it did wellGoing forward.
I expected to do fine.
But again, fans are trickysometimes.
You never know.
But Angel Reese versus KaitlynClark, I'm definitely tuning in,
you won't want to miss it.
But let's move on up to thenext one, which is Kaitlyn Clark
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versus Paige Beckers.
Ladies and gentlemen,specifically games three and
photo, I don't want to watch.
Or I'm going to watch theentire series, don't get me
wrong, but it's the later Idon't want to watch.
Oh, I'm gonna watch the entireseries, don't get me wrong, but
it's the later game that I wantto pay attention to because I'm
gonna give I'm gonna give pagethat little grace period right
early on.
But if she also falters badlyenough, I can't count that one.
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You know I'm saying like Igotta be fair.
But if it's a close battleearly on and then page wins out,
all right, cool, cool.
I'm going to definitively say,yeah, paige is better and
there's proof to back that up.
If I can't say that, though,that's tough.
Also, the WNBA I'm quitepositive wants to make this a
rivalry matchup.
Think about this we can talkabout is Paige ready?
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Right, we can talk about howKaitlyn Clark, is she outclassed
?
We got to remember PaigeBeckers has always been rated
higher than Kaitlyn Clark,without injury as a player.
That might hit your head alittle bit, that might hit your
psyche.
So I'm definitely going to bepaying attention not just this
season, to the end of time tothese girls retire.
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This is going to be a rivalrythat we want to watch and pay
attention to.
Tell me all right now.
But, ladies and gentlemen,don't even need to worry about
this, because I've been talkingabout this for years.
Hell, this ain't my commercial,to be honest with y'all.
So let's move on from this one.
Oh, by the way, they are thelast two number one picks, so
good bet, but let's move on fromthis one to the number three
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matchup, which is, in fact theLiberty versus Aces.
Because, again, they top dogs,like they top dogs in the WNBA,
like we've seen that they're thedefending champions over the
last three years.
These two teams, what else youwant?
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What else do you like?
I want to put them higher, likeI wanted to put them above the
liberty verse links.
I really did, because the aceshave a lot of talent and I think
a lot of people want to see theLiberty versus aces.
So you got Jewel Lloyd.
She's on a redemption tour.
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But, like I said, ladies andgentlemen, number two is in fact
Liberty versus Link.
So this was last year's finalsmatchup and it went the distance
a game five, and it was anexciting one.
And we have one of the bestplayers in the game in the piece
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of collier, going up againstbreanna stewart.
And now, hey, if the links geta little bit more help, like if
diamond miller comes back and isthe player that I think she is,
maybe the links make a littlebit more noise.
They're a little bit more,they're a little deeper now.
So, again, three and two.
They got a little history thereand that's why they're here for
me.
But my number one, ladies andgentlemen, my number one matchup
that I got to watch it isStewie versus Steve versus Asia.
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Listen, if y'all have notwatched basketball the WNBA you
know, like if you're not a fan,you didn't, just if you started
watching basketball last year,you're a casual fan to me, I'm
sorry.
So, with that being said, thesethree girls, these three women
faces of the WNBA, and I gottawatch those matchups at all
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times.
I don't care what I'm doing.
More often than not, more oftenthan not, I'm going to watch it
.
There's only a few thingsthat's going to make me not
watch the game.
I'm sorry.
I'll play it back then a littlelater.
That's what I'll say.
There's only a few things thatmake me not watch.
These three girls get a bucket.
I'll tell you that right now.
So again, my top matchup thethree best women in the WNBA.
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If I see the game on, best,believe you know what I'm doing.
But again, ladies and gentlemen, these are my top 10 matchups.
And again I said that some ofthese were I could have
mentioned Kelsey Plum and goingup against and, I guess,
de'arica Hamby, although KelseyPlum happened this year.
But I could have said KelseyPlum returning to the Aces right
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In the return games.
It means a little bit Modo,because I'm a Sparks fan as well
.
That's why I had to separate it, ladies and gentlemen, but
overall I think these were goodones.
You can say there's a littlebias to it, but I'm curious what
your thoughts were.
So if y'all have other matchupsthat I missed, definitely
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comment below and let me knowand I can see what y'all
thinking.
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