{"id":157948,"date":"2025-09-20T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157948\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:44:07","slug":"minnesota-lynxs-dijonai-carrington-to-sit-game-1-against-mercury-with-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/157948\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx\u2019s DiJonai Carrington to sit Game 1 against Mercury with foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Minnesota Lynx guard DiJonai Carrington will miss Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals against the Phoenix Mercury because of a left foot injury, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carrington appeared to have injured her foot late in Game 2 of the first-round series against the Golden State Valkyries. She was seen wearing a boot and walking with crutches Friday at teammate\u00a0Alanna Smith&#8217;s news conference for her Defensive Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Without Carrington, Minnesota&#8217;s bench loses a big two-way punch. In both games of the first-round series against the Valkyries, Carrington provided the team with an offensive burst, scoring six points in Game 1 and 11 in Game 2, and also defended Golden State&#8217;s top guard on the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carrington averaged 8.6 points in her 11 regular-season games with the Lynx, and she shot 48.5% overall and hit 45.5% from the 3-point arc in those games, both career highs. She missed the last four games of the regular season with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS &#8212; Minnesota Lynx guard DiJonai Carrington will miss Game 1 of the WNBA semifinals against the Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82627,82,630],"class_list":["post-157948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-minnesota-lynx-sports-basketball-team-team-statscom-156","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}