{"id":107524,"date":"2025-08-24T22:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:57:07","slug":"burton-has-25-points-13-assists-and-4-blocks-as-valkyries-deal-wings-their-5th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107524\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton has 25 points, 13 assists and 4 blocks as Valkyries deal Wings their 5th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Veronica Burton had 25 points, 13 assists and a career-high four blocks and the Golden State Valkyries beat Dallas 90-81 on Sunday, sending the Wings to their fifth straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State (19-18) snapped a three-game skid and has a one-game lead over the Los Angeles Sparks for the eighth and final spot in the WNBA playoffs, which begin Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Iliana Rupert tied her career high with 17 points, Kaila Charles matcher her career best with 16 points and Kate Martin hit four 3-pointers and finished with 12 points for the Valkyries.<\/p>\n<p>Burton, who had her fourth double-double this season, made a layup with 7:53 to play that capped a 10-0 run and gave the Valkyries their biggest lead of the game at 69-55.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas (9-28) has lost 10 of its last 11.<\/p>\n<p>Maddy Siegrist led the Wings with 16 points and Myisha Hines-Allen scored 15. Amy Okonkwo made her second WNBA appearance and added a career-high 12 points, and Grace Berger scored 11. Rookie Paige Bueckers had nine points on 3-of-12 shooting, grabbed a career-high tying nine rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Rookie JJ Quinerly (knee), Li Yueru (knee) and Arike Ogunbowale (knee) did not play for Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>The Valkyries host Washington on Saturday. Dallas plays Connecticut at home on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP WNBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) \u2014 Veronica Burton had 25 points, 13 assists and a career-high four blocks and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[70910,2832,2000,1062,70909,23687,4804,70912,2838,7143,32287,3029,60810,53536,2833,99,70911,60207,434,70908],"class_list":["post-107524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-12-points","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-connecticut","tag-dallas","tag-fifth-straight-loss","tag-golden-state","tag-golden-state-valkyries","tag-iliana-rupert","tag-jj-quinerly","tag-kate-martin","tag-li-yueru","tag-los-angeles-sparks","tag-maddy-siegrist","tag-myisha-hines-allen","tag-paige-bueckers","tag-sports","tag-the-valkyries","tag-veronica-burton","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-playoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}