The WNBA’s in-season tournament comes to an end tonight with the title game between the defending champions, the Minnesota Lynx, and the Indiana Fever.
The Fever punched their ticket into the championship game thanks, in part, to a New York Liberty win that kept Atlanta from winning the final game they needed to advance. Indiana went 4-1 in the five tournament games. They won some of those games without star Caitlin Clark, who was injured earlier this season, returned from injury, and is now out again with a left groin injury. Per the Fever’s X account, Clark won’t play tonight.
The Minnesota Lynx are back in the same position they were last year: playing in the in-season tournament’s title game. The Lynx are currently atop the league’s standings and went 5-1 during the six-game Commissioner’s Cup run in June.
Players in tonight’s game will compete for a prize purse of $500,000 with players on the winning team earning up to $30,000 each and players on the losing team earning up to $10,000 each. Additionally, all teams choose a charity to support throughout the tournament; Minnesota played for the ACLU of Minnesota, while Indiana represented the Peace Learning Center.
Here’s everything you need to know about the 2025 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Championship game.
The 2025 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Championship between the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx is tonight, July 1, at 8:00 p.m. ET.
The 2025 WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Championship is airing exclusively on Prime Video, so you’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member to tune in.
If you already have Amazon Prime — great! Just open the app around 8:00 p.m. and turn the game on.
If you’re not already a Prime subscriber (and you totally should be, especially with Prime Day coming up next week!), It’s super easy — and free — to get started. Simply head over to Amazon’s Prime landing page and start a 30-day free trial. You’ll get a month to try out everything the service has to offer before $14.99/month payments start.
The WNBA Commissioner’s Cup is an in-season tournament that consists of a handful of regular-season games counting toward both the overall record and the team’s record in the tournament. All 13 of the league’s teams participate, with five games total per team being played (against the other teams in their divisions).
Every game played between June 1 and June 17 counted toward the Commissioner’s Cup standings, then the highest-finishing team in each division meet in the Championship game.
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