{"id":56071,"date":"2025-08-09T03:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56071\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T03:50:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T03:50:06","slug":"lynx-forward-alanna-smith-scores-team-high-25-points-in-win-vs-mystics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56071\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx forward Alanna Smith scores team-high 25 points in win vs. Mystics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Alanna Smith scored 25 points, Courtney Williams had 14 and 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> held off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/wnba\/teams\/washington-mystics\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"washington-mystics\" data-league=\"wnba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Washington Mystics<\/a> 80-76 on Friday night to improve to 16-1 at home this season.<\/p>\n<p>Smith and Washington rookie Sonia Citron each scored eight straight points for their teams down the stretch. Citron&#8217;s three-point play with 2:44 left pulled the Mystics within 71-70, but Smith answered at the other end with her fourth three-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Citron sank a three-pointer from the wing with 59 seconds remaining to tie it at 76-all. Williams answered with a baseline jumper to give Minnesota a two-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>Washington guard Sug Sutton was fouled with 36 seconds left but the call was overturned following a review. The Mystics won the jump ball, but Citron turned it over in the lane.<\/p>\n<p>Kayla McBride sealed it with two free throws.<\/p>\n<p>DiJonai Carrington, in her home debut for the Lynx after being traded from Dallas, added 12 points for Minnesota (26-5). McBride scored 11. Napheesa Collier (right ankle) did not play.<\/p>\n<p>Citron finished with 26 points and four three-pointers for Washington (13-17). Kiki Iriafen and Shakira Austin each scored 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget Carleton made a jumper from the free throw line just before the halftime buzzer to give Minnesota a 38-35 lead. The Lynx were just 2-of-13 from three-point range in the first half. The Mystics were hurt by 13 turnovers in the half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 Alanna Smith scored 25 points, Courtney Williams had 14 and the Minnesota Lynx held off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-56071","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\/56071","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=56071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}