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WNBA season preview 2024: Yahoo Sports predictions

The WNBA’s 28th season tips off Tuesday with an abundance of enticing matchups on the schedule.

No. 1 overall pick Caitlin Clark, arguably the biggest name in basketball, will make her professional debut when the Indiana Fever open on the road against the oft-disrespected Connecticut Sun (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2). WNBA all-time leading scorer Diana Taurasi begins her 20th season with the Phoenix Mercury, watching the Las Vegas Aces raise a second championship banner (10 p.m. ET, ESPN2).

New York, trying to bounce back from its crushing Game 4 defeat to the Aces, starts the season against new-look Washington (7 p.