Who Are the Announcers for the WNBA Playoffs in 2025?

Liam McKeone | Sep 19, 2025

A'ja Wilson's Aces look to return to the WNBA Finals in 2025. / Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images

The 2025 WNBA playoffs have arrived.

After an entertaining regular season the playoff field was set on the last day of games. The Lynx, as they have all season, led all teams with 34 wins and earned the top seed in the postseason bracket, putting themselves in great position to avenge their WNBA Finals loss last season. But they'll have stiff competition to do so. The Aces entered postseason play after winning the last 16 games of the regular season. The Dream and Mercury both have the look of true contenders if they get hot at the right time. And, of course, there are the defending champion Liberty lurking in the No. 5 seed after going through a bit of a championship hangover during the regular season.

All that makes for a fascinating playoff bracket and one that could provide top-tier entertainment from the first round on. With such juicy matchups it is even more important that the broadcast teams are on their toes, ready to call legendary moments as they happen.

But who are the announcers that make up those broadcast teams?

Who is Broadcasting the 2025 WNBA Playoffs?

ABC/ESPN has exclusive broadcast rights to the WNBA playoffs. So every single WNBA playoff game will be shown on either ABC, ESPN, or ESPN 2. As the postseason rolls on and fewer games are shown the broadcasts will be limited to either ESPN or ABC.

The Finals will also be shown by ABC/ESPN and the best-of-seven series will be split between the two channels.

WNBA Playoffs Announcers 2025

The above information means, of course, that the announcers for this year's postseason all come from ESPN's roster. There should be plenty of familiar names for those who have been tuning into primetime games on ESPN or ABC throughout the season.

For the first round of the playoffs, there are four announcing teams, one for each opening series. Those four teams, in no particular order, are found below.

PLAY-BY-PLAY	COLOR COMMENTATOR	SIDELINE REPORTER
Ryan Ruocco	Rebecca Lobo	Holly Rowe
Tiffany Greene	Debbie Antonelli	Brooke Weisbrod
Mark Jones	Carolyn Peck	Vanessa Richardson
Pam Ward	LaChina Robinson	Angel Gray

WNBA Playoffs Announcing Schedule

While it is often the case in the NBA that announcing crews are assigned to individual series during the postseason, that isn't the case for the WNBA playoffs this year. ESPN has all four of its teams bouncing around depending on the date, time, and location of the games they're scheduled to announce. Given the first round is only a best-of-three series it makes sense the network would prefer this kind of flexibility.

With all that said ESPN laid out a schedule for the first two games of every series at the start of the playoffs. Here's what that schedule looks like.

Game 1 Announcing Schedule

DATE	GAME	ANNOUNCERS
Sunday, September 14	Lynx vs. Valkyries	Greene/Antonelli/Weisbrod
Sunday, September 14	Dream vs. Fever	Ruocco/Lobo/Rowe
Sunday, September 14	Liberty vs. Mercury	Ward/Robinson/Gray
Sunday, September 14	Aces vs. Storm	Jones/Peck/Richardson

Game 2 Announcing Schedule

DATE	GAME	ANNOUNCERS
Tuesday, September 16	Dream vs. Fever	Ward/Robinson/Gray
Tuesday, September 16	Aces vs. Storm	Jones/Peck/Richardson
Wednesday, September 17	Liberty vs. Mercury	Ruocco/Lobo/Rowe
Wednesday, September 17	Lynx vs. Valkyries	Greene/Antonelli/Weisbrod

Game 3 Announcing Schedule

Three series will head to a deciding Game 3 in the first round of the playoffs. In Game 2s across the league, the Mercury blew out the Liberty, the Storm pulled off a narrow upset over the Aces to break Las Vegas's winning streak, and the Fever staved off elimination with a home win over the Dream. The Lynx were the only team to complete a first round sweep with two straight wins over the Valkyrie.

Thursday brought a very exciting pair of games. The Fever upset the Dream and the Aces beat the Storm; the combined margin of victory in both Game 3s was only two points. Nothing quite like playoff basketball.

Friday will provide the first round finale in the form of Liberty-Mercury Game 3.

DATE	GAME	ANNOUNCERS
Thursday, September 18	Dream vs. Fever	Ward/Robinson/Gray
Thursday, September 18	Aces vs. Storm	Jones/Peck/Richardson
Friday, September 19	Liberty vs. Mercury	Ruocco/Lobo/Rowe

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