Minnesota Lynx (33-11, 20-3 Western Conference) at New York Liberty (26-18, 13-7 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Lynx -2.5; over\/under is 173.5<\/p>\n
WNBA PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND:<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The New York Liberty square off against the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n
The Liberty are 14-8 in home games. New York ranks fifth in the Eastern Conference with 8.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Jonquel Jones averaging 2.0.<\/p>\n
The Lynx are 18-4 in road games. Minnesota has a 3-3 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
New York’s average of 10.2 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.9 more made shots on average than the 9.3 per game Minnesota allows. Minnesota has shot at a 47.7% rate from the field this season, 2.9 percentage points greater than the 44.8% shooting opponents of New York have averaged.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Sabrina Ionescu is averaging 14.6 points and 4.7 assists for the Liberty. Breanna Stewart is averaging 19.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Natasha Howard is averaging 14.8 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.6 steals for the Lynx. Olivia Miles is averaging 14.8 points and 4.0 rebounds while shooting 45.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 6-4, averaging 86.1 points, 36.6 rebounds, 20.6 assists, 5.7 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Lynx: 5-5, averaging 83.0 points, 32.1 rebounds, 20.7 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Liberty: Satou Sabally: out for season (head).<\/p>\n
Lynx: Anastasiia Olairi Kosu: out (foot), Emma Cechova: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
——<\/p>\n
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx (33-11, 20-3 Western Conference) at New York Liberty (26-18, 13-7 Eastern Conference) New York; Tuesday, 8:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133500,3080,68624,9,11,8915,10,11452],"class_list":["post-358567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-133500","tag-espn","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-new-york-news","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358567","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=358567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}