With four weeks left in the WNBA regular season, it's easy to predict the Minnesota Lynx will be the No. 1 seed in the playoffs and that Napheesa Collier continues to be the MVP favorite. But there's still a lot to be determined.

And the hot takes we might have made in May -- such as the expansion Golden State Valkyries will make the 2025 playoffs -- don't seem much like going out on a limb now.

By the same token, because of injuries and player movement, some of the lineups on court recently couldn't have been predicted but now seem pragmatic, if nothing else. Getting to the end of a 44-game schedule with your team intact? Likely not going to happen. Making it to the postseason as healthy and cohesive as possible is the goal, but in some cases just getting there at all will be a su

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