Chicago Sky (4-10, 1-6 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (9-6, 5-4 Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky aims to break its four-game slide with a victory over the Dallas Wings.<\/p>\n
The Wings are 5-2 in home games. Dallas averages 87.6 points and has outscored opponents by 4.9 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Sky have gone 3-4 away from home. Chicago is seventh in the WNBA, scoring 38.6 points per game in the paint, led by Kamilla Cardoso, averaging 9.0.<\/p>\n
Dallas makes 45.7% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.5 percentage points higher than Chicago has allowed to its opponents (43.2%). Chicago\u2019s 42.2% shooting percentage from the field this season is 3.9 percentage points lower than Dallas has given up to its opponents (46.1%).<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Wings won the last meeting 99-89 on May 21. Paige Bueckers scored 24 points to help lead the Wings to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jessica Shepard is averaging 13.7 points, 11.5 rebounds, and 5.6 assists for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 15.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cardoso is averaging 11.9 points, 8.3 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks for the Sky. Skylar Diggins is averaging 16.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 6-4, averaging 85.8 points, 35.5 rebounds, 22.5 assists, 7.8 steals, and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.2 points per game. The Wings are coming off a loss to Golden State. Arike Ogunbowale led the way with 21 points. Bueckers added 15 points, but struggled from the field (5-13). Jessica Shepard scored 14 points and 10 rebounds, while Azzi Fudd scored 10 points – Fudd also struggled from the field.<\/p>\n
Sky: 1-9, averaging 82.7 points, 30.7 rebounds, 19.7 assists, 7.2 steals, and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 41.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 92.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wings: Odyssey Sims: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Sky: Courtney Vandersloot: out (knee), Rickea Jackson: out for season (knee), DiJonai Carrington: out (foot).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky (4-10, 1-6 Eastern Conference) at Dallas Wings (9-6, 5-4 Western Conference) Arlington, Texas; Saturday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,2945,32783,102,581,14421,154,14422],"class_list":["post-342888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-wings","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}