Washington Mystics (13-16, 7-7 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (25-5, 17-2 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Minneapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Minnesota Lynx will try to prolong its three-game win streak with a victory over Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n
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The Lynx have gone 15-1 at home. Minnesota is sixth in the WNBA with 8.5 offensive rebounds per game led by Jessica Shepard averaging 2.2 offensive boards.<\/p>\n
The Mystics are 4-10 on the road. Washington has a 7-9 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n
Minnesota averages 9.7 made 3-pointers per game, 2.1 more made shots than the 7.6 per game Washington gives up. Washington has shot at a 43.4% rate from the field this season, 1.7 percentage points higher than the 41.7% shooting opponents of Minnesota have averaged.<\/p>\n
The two teams play for the third time this season. The Lynx defeated the Mystics 92-75 in their last meeting on July 4. Napheesa Collier led the Lynx with 28 points, and Lucy Olsen led the Mystics with 19 points.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Kayla McBride is averaging 14.8 points and 3.4 assists for the Lynx. Collier is averaging 20.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Sonia Citron is averaging 14.3 points for the Mystics. Sug Sutton is averaging 1.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lynx: 8-2, averaging 93.0 points, 35.9 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 9.9 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Mystics: 4-6, averaging 76.8 points, 31.4 rebounds, 20.1 assists, 7.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 80.6 points.<\/p>\n
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INJURIES: Lynx: Napheesa Collier: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Mystics: Georgia Amoore: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Mystics (13-16, 7-7 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (25-5, 17-2 Western Conference) Minneapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,23934,8996,35092,6001,24531,736,729,4649,35091,61,18685,737,10627],"class_list":["post-51482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eastern-conference","tag-georgia-amoore","tag-jessica-shepard","tag-kayla-mcbride","tag-lucy-olsen","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-napheesa-collier","tag-sonia-citron","tag-sug-sutton","tag-technology","tag-the-mystics","tag-washington-mystics","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51482","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=51482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}