Lady Luck: Today's WNBA best bets


Atlanta Dream at San Antonio Silver Stars (-4, 155)

The Dream have emerged as a legitimate contender for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. But to become elite, the team must learn to win on the road, where it has had the same, reoccurring nightmare this season.

Atlanta is just 3-7 away from home this year and has dropped five of its past seven on the road. The team’s most recent road win was a 98-95 victory over a floundering Shock squad. The seven losses in opponent’s gyms, however, have come by an average of fewer than six points per game.

Meanwhile, the Silver Stars have been playing great at home, winning six of nine overall, including their past two. San Antonio is led by MVP candidate Becky Hammon, who averages 20.9 points, 4.8 assists and 2.2 steals per game.

The Dream will keep it close, but the nightmare on the road continues.

Pick: Silver Stars


Seattle Storm at Los Angeles Sparks (+2.5, 136)

Despite losing five of seven games, Lisa Leslie believes the Sparks are close to returning to an elite status.

"I feel like we're really close to getting over that hump," Leslie, who recently returned from a seven-week absence due to injury, told the Associated Press. "I know we have the best rebounders in the world. We just have to commit to going to the boards every time."

And Los Angeles has dominated the boards against the Storm this season, out-rebounding them in two of their three meetings. But it has been Seattle that’s won the battle on the scoreboard two out of three times, winning once in overtime, once by a field goal and getting blown out by 27 in its only trip to the City of Angels.

The Storm has split their past two games overall with both going to overtime, but should have enough to make it three out of four against the Sparks.