{"id":158941,"date":"2025-09-21T09:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158941\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:39:13","slug":"lynxs-dijonai-carrington-to-miss-rest-of-season-with-mid-foot-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/158941\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx&#8217;s DiJonai Carrington to miss rest of season with mid-foot sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DiJonai Carrington&#8217;s season is over.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/minnesota-lynx\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"minnesota-lynx\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> announced Saturday that the guard suffered a mid-left foot sprain in their Game 2 win over the Golden State Valkyries on Wednesday, and Carrington will miss the remainder of the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old joined the Lynx mid-way through the year via trade after spending her first 20 games with the Dallas Wings \u2014 signalling a tale of two halves for Carrington, switching from the last-place team in the WNBA this year, to a top-seeded Minnesota squad.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington made 11 regular-season appearances with the Lynx, averaging 8.6 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.2 steals on 48.5\/45.5\/76.0 per cent shooting splits. In what&#8217;ll go down as her final game of the 2025 campaign, last year&#8217;s Most Improved Player award winner put up 11 points on 4-of-9 shooting and a block in 14 minutes of action as Minnesota bounced Golden State and advanced to the WNBA semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx will now prepare to take on the fourth-seeded Phoenix Mercury in Game 1 of their second-round series on Sunday, without Carrington. Minnesota entered the post-season with a league-best 34-10 record, posting a new mark for single-season wins in franchise history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DiJonai Carrington&#8217;s season is over. The Minnesota Lynx announced Saturday that the guard suffered a mid-left foot sprain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-158941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158941","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=158941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}