{"id":87641,"date":"2025-08-22T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87641\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T02:16:07","slug":"cardoso-reese-have-double-doubles-as-sky-beat-liberty-to-snap-5-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/87641\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardoso, Reese have double-doubles as Sky beat Liberty to snap 5-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Kamilla Cardoso had 22 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, Angel Reese scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and the Chicago Sky<\/a> beat the New York Liberty<\/a> on Thursday night to end a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Chicago (9-26), which had lost 13 of 14 overall, also snapped a five-game skid against New York.<\/p>\n

Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, nine in the fourth quarter, and Michaela Onyenwere added 13 for the Sky in a game that featured 21 lead changes and 11 ties.<\/p>\n

Jonquel Jones made a career-high tying five 3-pointers and scored 25 points for the Liberty. Sabrina Ionescu added 16 points and Natasha Cloud 14.<\/p>\n

Ionescu made two free throws that gave the Liberty an 85-83 lead with 2:23 left in the game. Atkins answered with a runner in the lane, drew a foul fighting through a screen by Emma Meesseman, and then made one from the free-throw line to give Chicago the lead for good with 1:35 remaining.<\/p>\n

New York, the defending WNBA champion, went 0 for 4 from the field with a turnover as the Sky closed the game on an 8-0 run.<\/p>\n

The Sky scored a season-high 52 points in the paint and shot 50% (31 of 62) from the field. Cardoso made 8 of 9 from the field, hit 6 of 6 from the free-throw line and had five assists.<\/p>\n

New York, which went into the game leading the WNBA in made 3-pointers (9.9 per game), was 10 of 20 from 3-point range in the first half but hit just 3 of 17 (18%) after halftime.<\/p>\n

Breanna Stewart (knee) did not play for the Liberty.<\/p>\n

The Liberty plays Atlanta on the road and the Sky hosts Connecticut on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Kamilla Cardoso had 22 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, Angel Reese scored 21 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-87641","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\/87641","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=87641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}