Dallas at Minnesota

Minnesota Lynx spent most of July looking unbeatable, ripping off ten straight before Los Angeles snapped that run on Thursday. The Lynx answered the way the league's best teams usually do, closing out Las Vegas at home on Saturday with Napheesa Collier looking fully healthy again since returning from ankle surgery. I liked Minnesota giving points in that one, and we cashed comfortably as the Lynx pulled away late. That win puts Minnesota right back on the floor today for the second half of a back-to-back, hosting a Dallas Wings team that's rested and looking to snap its own two-game slide, one that includes blowing a 20-point third-quarter lead in Washington and getting run off the floor by Golden State by 18 two nights later. Paige Bueckers has carried Dallas all season, leading the club at 20 points and nearly six assists a night, and she isn't on today's injury report at all. Minnesota still ranks second in the league in scoring and rebounding and third in points allowed, and none of that changes overnight. But asking a group that played Saturday afternoon to also contain a healthy, motivated backcourt on zero rest this afternoon is a real ask, and that combination, tired legs on defense against a Dallas team with legitimate firepower, sets up scoring at both ends and makes the rested underdog live to cover. Take the Wings to cover this afternoon, and grab the OVER alongside it.