There’s one main aspect of the Commissioner’s Cup championship game that excites most players, and it’s not the rose gold trophy awaiting the victor.
“I need that win and I need that money,” Minnesota Lynx guard Natisha Hiedeman, playing in her second title game, said last week. “It’s all about the money.”
The WNBA’s fourth annual in-season tournament concludes Tuesday, when Minnesota and New York meet in the Commissioner’s Cup championship at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York (8 p.m. ET, Prime). At stake for the winning squad is a $500,000 cash prize pool — one-third of a team’s salary cap for the 2024 season — and each participating player will receive $5,000 in cryptocurrency.