Sabrina Ionescu hit the winning layup with 10 seconds remaining, Jonquel Jones scored 19 points and the New York Liberty beat the Chicago Sky 96-95 on Wednesday at Wintrust Arena in Commissioner\u2019s Cup play.<\/p>\n
Ionescu subbed back onto the floor with 15.6 seconds remaining, caught the ball and drove to the basket before finishing with her left hand to seal the Liberty\u2019s eighth-straight win. She finished the night with 10 points.<\/p>\n
Jones hauled in eight rebounds and finished 6 for 9 from the field. Breanna Stewart and Satou Sabally each scored 17 points, and Rebekah Gardner added 10 off the bench.<\/p>\n
Sky rookie Sydney Taylor scored 24 points in her first career start, hitting 57% from downtown. Olivia Miles of the Minnesota Lynx is the only rookie with more 20-point games this season. Gabriela Jaquez, also a rookie, added a season-high 22 points for the Sky.<\/p>\n
The Liberty clinched a perfect Commissioner\u2019s Cup record versus the East with the win.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Liberty host the Washington Mystics on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Sky visit the Dallas Wings on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sabrina Ionescu hit the winning layup with 10 seconds remaining, Jonquel Jones scored 19 points and the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27377,9,11,8915,10,27373,104365,104366,11452,19362],"class_list":["post-270524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-chicago-sky","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-news","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sydney-taylor","tag-wintrust-arena","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}