FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Paige Bueckers had 22 points and 11 assists, Jessica Shepard added 19 points and 10 rebounds, and the Dallas Wings beat the Chicago Sky 96-91 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Wings (16-8) have won a season-high five straight games, their longest streak since also winning five in a row in 2023.<\/p>\n
Arike Ogunbowale scored 17 points and Azzi Fudd 16 for Dallas.<\/p>\n
Li Yueru had 10 points and a season-high 10 rebounds and slowed down the Sky\u2019s Kamilla Cardoso after a hot start. Cardoso had six points on 3-of-5 shooting and five rebounds in the first five minutes before Yueru came off the bench.<\/p>\n
Cardoso finished 6 of 12 from the field with 12 points and 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Fudd hit a 3-pointer just before the shot clock expired and then blocked a shot at the other end before Shepard made a layup that gave Dallas the lead for good with 3:07 left. Ogunbowale made a layup with 42 seconds left that capped a 15-5 run and made it 94-89.<\/p>\n
Sydney Taylor led the Sky (7-16) with 20 points, Azur\u00e1\u00a0Stevens added 18 and a season-high 13 rebounds, and Natasha Cloud scored 15.<\/p>\n
The Wings\u2019 Alanna Smith left the game in the first half due to a left leg injury and did not return.<\/p>\n
The Sky\u2019s Skylar Diggins missed her third consecutive game due to a knee injury. The six-time All-WNBA pick (four first-team selections), who signed a two-year deal with the club in April, announced Monday on Instagram that she had been informed by the club that she would be coming off the bench<\/a>. The soon-to-be 36-year-old missed her first game Tuesday, a 77-66 win at Phoenix<\/a>, despite not appearing on the injury report until 90 minutes before tipoff.<\/p>\n Diggins has started the last 277 regular-season games she has played, beginning in 2016 for Dallas.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n The Sky host the Seattle Storm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Wings host the New York Liberty on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas \u2014 Paige Bueckers had 22 points and 11 assists, Jessica Shepard added 19 points and 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32783,102,104,103,14421,122887,14446,122888,14422,15715],"class_list":["post-370807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-chicago-sky","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sydney-taylor","tag-wnba","tag-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370807","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=370807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}