2026 WNBA power rankings: Analyzing the league post-draft, free agency

The 2026 WNBA season will be here before you know it; how are all the league's teams stacking up against each other ahead of May's kickoff? Well, now that free agency and the draft have settled, we can get a much better grasp on where each team is exactly in the grand scheme of things. WNBA Draft 2026 grades: Analysis of every pick in all 3 rounds We're expecting some risers and fallers from 2025, even if our thoughts on the league's best teams won't come as a huge surprise.

WNBA 2026 free agency winners (Liberty! ) and losers (Lynx?! ) Let's run through all 15 teams and stack them up now that the big offseason hurdles have been jumped.

10 best 2026 WNBA free agents still available, including Natasha Cloud 1. Las Vegas Aces The champs stay at the top. Keeping the band together was always the goal for Vegas as it defends its WNBA title, and the team did that by bringing back all five of its 2025 playoff starters and key bench players like Dana Evans and Cheyenne Parker-Tyus.

The team also added veteran depth pieces like Brianna Turner and Stephanie Talbot. As long as the Aces have A'ja Wilson, they can win a lot of games. As long as Wilson is flanked by players like Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young and Jewell Lloyd, Vegas will be a special sort of headache for opposing teams.