10 biggest questions for WNBA offseason, 2025: Liberty repeat? Clark encore? Taurasi retirement?

The WNBA players' union announced Monday that the players voted to opt out early from their current collective bargaining agreement with the league.

The 2025 season will expand to 44 regular-season games, with changes to the playoffs, including a best-of-seven WNBA Finals.

The draft lottery will be held Nov. 17 , with the Los Angeles Sparks , Dallas Wings, Chicago Sky and Washington Mystics in contention for the No. 1 pick.

L.A. Sparks have the best individual chance of getting the top pick ( 44.2% ), but the Wings ' odds are effectively a combined 45.4% , because they have their own pick plus they can swap picks with Chicago .

Have we seen the last of Diana Taurasi , and if so, what's next for Phoenix ? The Connecticut Sun have been the bastion of consistency in the league.

Next season's WNBA Finals will be best-of-seven -- two games at the higher seed, two at the lower.

The league will also move to a 1-1-1 format for the first round.

Fatigue can be another issue in a seven -game series, and it seemed to affect play Sunday in Game 5 .

The last expansion draft was in 2008 , for the Atlanta Dream .