'23 WNBA slate has record 40 games per team

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'23 WNBA SLATE TIPS MAY 19, FEATURES RECORD 40 GAMES PER TEAM 8:03 PM UTC Alexa PhilippouESPN Close Covers women's college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer The 2023 WNBA regular season will run May 19 through Sept. 10 and features a record 40 games per team, the league announced Wednesday.
Opening weekend includes four games on the first night of action, a Friday: The Washington Mystics will host the New York Liberty, the Connecticut Sun will travel to take on the Indiana Fever, the Minnesota Lynx will face the 2021 champion Chicago Sky in Minneapolis and the Phoenix Mercury will play the Los Angeles Sparks on the road.
The defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces will kick off their season on Saturday, May 20, against the Seattle Storm in Seattle, a rematch of this fall's dramatic semifinal series, while the Atlanta Dream and Dallas Wings will also face off that night in Dallas.
The first weekend of play concludes on Sunday with the Sun hosting the Mystics, the Fever traveling to New York and the Sky playing the Mercury in Phoenix.