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| Dates | September 24 – October 4 | |||||||||
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| MVP |  Sylvia Fowles (Minnesota Lynx) | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | Lynx: Sylvia Fowles (2025) Maya Moore (2025) Seimone Augustus (2024) Lindsay Whalen (2022) | |||||||||
| Eastern finals | Los Angeles Sparks defeated Phoenix Mercury, 3–0 (Note: the semifinal rounds as of 2016 were not divided by conference) | |||||||||
| Western finals | Minnesota Lynx defeated Washington Mystics, 3–0 | |||||||||
The 2017 WNBA Finals, officially the WNBA Finals 2017 presented by Verizon for sponsorship reasons, was the best-of-five championship series for the 2017 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), tipping off on September 24. [1] It was a rematch of the previous year's finals matchup. The top-seeded Minnesota Lynx held home court advantage in the Finals, and won three games to two against the second-seeded Los Angeles Sparks. The Sparks won a semifinal series against the Phoenix Mercury to determine one of the Finals berths; the first-seeded Lynx defeated the Washington Mystics to earn the other. Sylvia Fowles was named the 2017 WNBA Finals MVP.