{"id":28915,"date":"2025-07-28T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28915\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T08:11:08","slug":"dream-end-lynxs-14-game-home-win-streak-with-win-griner-scores-season-high-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/28915\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream end Lynx&#8217;s 14-game home win streak with win, Griner scores season-high 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Brittney Griner scored a season-high 22 points and the hot-shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/atlanta-dream\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"atlanta-dream\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> handed 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=\"nofollow noopener\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> their first loss in 15 home games this season 90-86 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx trailed 83-70 with three minutes to go but pulled within three on Napheesa Collier&#8217;s basket with 11.3 seconds left. Jordin Canada&#8217;s free throw at seven seconds iced it.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta made its first six shots of the fourth quarter before a block by Collier and then made three more in a row. Collier had 13 points in the final period.<\/p>\n<p>Canada had 18 points for the Dream (15-10) and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and Allisha Gray both added 12.<\/p>\n<p>Collier scored 32 points on 14-of-18 shooting to go with eight rebounds, seven assists, four steals and two blocks to lead the Lynx (22-5). Alanna Smith added 12 points, Courtney Williams 11 and Natisha Hiedeman 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx franchise-record home winning streak was the fourth-longest in WNBA history.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta was 5-of-20 shooting in the third quarter when Minnesota cut a 14-point halftime deficit to as little as three. But in the other three quarters the Dream shot 29 of 45 (71 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx shot 56 per cent but after Collier it was 48 per cent. They were also outscored by nine at the foul line.<\/p>\n<p>The Lynx end a five-game homestand on Wednesday when the defending champion New York Liberty visit for the first meeting of the season between the two WNBA finalist from last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Brittney Griner scored a season-high 22 points and the hot-shooting Atlanta Dream handed the Minnesota Lynx&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-28915","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\/28915","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=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}