{"id":1680,"date":"2025-07-17T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1680\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T03:02:08","slug":"stewart-leads-liberty-past-fever-as-caitlin-clark-misses-game-with-groin-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/1680\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart leads Liberty past Fever as Caitlin Clark misses game with groin injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart had 24 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists to help the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/new-york-liberty\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"new-york-liberty\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York Liberty<\/a> to a 98-77 win Wednesday night over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/indiana-fever\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"indiana-fever\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Indiana Fever<\/a>, who played without star guard Caitlin Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u00a0missed the game after injuring her right groin\u00a0on Tuesday night in the final minute of the game against Connecticut in Boston. Clark has a busy weekend ahead as Indiana is hosting the WNBA All-Star Game and she&#8217;s slated to compete in the\u00a0three-point contest\u00a0and is captain of one of the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Ionescu, who will also be in the three-point contest, added 15 points and nine assists for the Liberty (15-6).<\/p>\n<p>Stewart got the Liberty off to a strong start as they led 32-24 after one quarter and were up 15 at the half. The Liberty&#8217;s All-Star forward had 13 points, nine rebounds and five assists by the break.<\/p>\n<p>New York put the game away in the third quarter behind Stewart, whose three-point play with 3:57 left made it 71-48 much to the delight of the crowd of 17,371. The Fever could only get within 15 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Mitchell led Indiana (12-11) with 16 points. The Fever fell to 4-6 when Clark has missed a regular-season game this season.<\/p>\n<p>New York was still missing star centre Jonquel Jones. She said she plans to be back for the Liberty&#8217;s first game after the All-Star break on Tuesday which is also against Indiana. She&#8217;s been sidelined with a sprained ankle for about a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Breanna Stewart had 24 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists to help the New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","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=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}