{"id":353290,"date":"2026-09-22T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353290\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:44:09","slug":"atlanta-plays-new-york-seeks-30th-victory-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353290\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta plays New York, seeks 30th victory of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta Dream<\/a> (29-14, 14-5 Eastern Conference) at New York Liberty<\/a> (26-17, 13-6 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream will try to earn its 30th win this season when the Dream visit the New York Liberty.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are 13-6 in conference games. New York ranks eighth in the WNBA<\/a> with 38.7 points in the paint led by Breanna Stewart<\/a> averaging 11.7.<\/p>\n

The Dream are 14-5 in Eastern Conference play. Atlanta is eighth in the WNBA with 25.0 defensive rebounds per game led by Angel Reese<\/a> averaging 7.5.<\/p>\n

New York averages 10.3 made 3-pointers per game, 2.2 more made shots than the 8.1 per game Atlanta allows. Atlanta averages 5.0 more points per game (91.5) than New York gives up to opponents (86.5).<\/p>\n

The teams play for the third time this season. The Dream won the last matchup 95-84 on Sept. 22. Jordin Canada<\/a> scored 19 points to help lead the Dream to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Stewart is scoring 20.8 points per game and averaging 8.3 rebounds for the Liberty. Jonquel Jones<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points and 8.5 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Reese is averaging 16.6 points, 12.3 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Dream. Rhyne Howard<\/a> is averaging 18.6 points and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 39.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 6-4, averaging 88.2 points, 36.8 rebounds, 21.1 assists, 6.3 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Dream: 8-2, averaging 96.5 points, 36.6 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 8.9 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Liberty: Satou Sabally: out for season (head).<\/p>\n

Dream: Brionna Jones: out for season (leg).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta Dream (29-14, 14-5 Eastern Conference) at New York Liberty (26-17, 13-6 Eastern Conference) New York; Wednesday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75557,68626,27066,54398,24863,131706,9,11,8915,10,62442,56783],"class_list":["post-353290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-event_preview","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-jordin-canada","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-news","tag-rhyne-howard","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353290","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=353290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}