The Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx met at the Target Center to play in the Commissioner's Cup Championship on July 1 at 8pm ET.

The Indiana Fever defeated the Minnesota Lynx, 74-59, in the Championship Game of the fifth-annual Commissioner’s Cup, which took place at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.

The Commissioner’s Cup presented by Coinbase is an annual in-season competition. The tournament features a 36-game schedule from June 1-17.

The team from each conference with the top record in Commissioner’s Cup games will compete for a $500,000 prize pool in the Commissioner’s Cup Championship presented by Coinbase. In addition, Coinbase has committed $120,000 in cryptocurrency to the prize pool, which includes $5,000 for each player in the championship game. The title game will be played on Tuesday, July 1 hosted by the team with the best winning percentage in Cup play.

For each Cup game from June 1-17, winning teams earned a monetary donation of $3,000 for their chosen local organization; losing teams earned $1,000 for their selected organization. An additional $10,000 donation will be made to the non-profit organization aligned with the winner of the Championship Game of the Commissioner’s Cup presented by Coinbase and $5,000 will be made to the organization of the runner-up. The donations will be presented to each organization following the conclusion of the Commissioner’s Cup Championship.

To learn more about the local charities selected by each team, click HERE. 

The in-season competition began on Sunday, June 1.

With the addition of the Golden State Valkyries, every team will play one game against each of the other teams in its conference – a total of five games for each of the six Eastern Conference teams and six games for each of the seven Western Conference teams.

Eastern Conference teams will play either three Commissioner’s Cup games at home and two on the road, or two at home and three on the road. Western Conference teams will play three games each at home and on the road. All intraconference Cup games will count toward a team’s regular-season win-loss record.

1. Home Court in Commissioner’s Cup Championship Game.

Home-court hosting of the Commissioner’s Cup Championship game will be awarded to the conference winner that has the higher winning percentage in all games played (ending on the night of the last Commissioner’s Cup games).

If both Commissioner’s Cup conference winners have the same winning percentage in all games played through the night of the last Commissioner’s Cup games, the below tiebreaker procedure shall be used to determine which team will host the Commissioner’s Cup Championship game.

1. Average point differential in all regular-season games played (ending on the night of the last Commissioner’s Cup game);
2. Head-to-head record (ending on the night of the last Commissioner’s Cup game);
3. Coin flip.

2. Commissioner’s Cup Conference Finalist.

The team in each conference that has the best record from the Commissioner’s Cup Tournament will play in the Commissioner’s Cup Championship game.

If two or more teams have the same record, the following tiebreak procedure shall be used to break ties between teams within the same conference to determine the conference finalist for the Commissioner’s Cup Championship game.

1. Two-Way Tie Between Teams.
   Head-to-head record in the Commissioner’s Cup games between the teams (which will be all that is necessary to break any two-team tie because every team plays every other team in the conference once).
2. More Than Two Teams Tied.
   1. Head-to-head record in the Commissioner’s Cup games among all the tied teams;
   2. Point differential in the Commissioner’s Cup games among all the tied teams;
   3. Total Points scored in the Commissioner’s Cup games among all the tied teams;
   4. Higher winning percentage in all conference games played (ending on the night of the last Commissioner’s Cup game);
   5. Random draw.

Example: First, the head-to-head records of the teams with the same record will be combined. (For example, if Team A is 1-0 against Team B and 1-0 against Team C, and Team B is 1-0 against Team C, then Team A’s combined record against the other tied teams would be 2-0 (or 1.00); Team B’s would be 1-1 (or .500); and Team C’s would be 0-2 (or .000). Team A will win the tie breaker. If that step results in a winner (as in the example), the multi-team tiebreaker is complete. If two or more teams remain tied at the top after that step, the process must begin again from the first step only for those teams that finished at the top during that first step (i.e., the next step is head-to-head only among those teams that were tied at the top after the first step). If the remaining teams are still tied after re-applying the first step to only the remaining teams, those remaining teams will move on to the second step (point differential among those remaining teams). If the remaining teams are still tied after the second step, those remaining teams will move on to the third step (total points among those remaining teams).

The Minnesota Lynx defeated the New York Liberty, 94-89, in the Championship Game of the fourth-annual Commissioner’s Cup, which took place at UBS Arena in Queens, New York, on Tuesday, June. 25, 2024.

The New York Liberty defeated the Las Vegas Aces, 82-63, in the Championship Game of the third-annual Commissioner’s Cup, which took place at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023.

The Las Vegas Aces defeated the Chicago Sky, 93-83, in the Championship Game of the second-annual Commissioner’s Cup, which took place at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, on Tuesday, Jul. 26, 2022.

The Seattle Storm defeated the Connecticut Sun, 79-57, in the Championship Game of the inaugural Commissioner’s Cup, which took place at Footprint Center in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021.