{"id":124524,"date":"2025-09-01T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124524\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:47:07","slug":"new-york-plays-golden-state-on-4-game-road-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/124524\/","title":{"rendered":"New York plays Golden State on 4-game road skid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/new-york-liberty-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Liberty<\/a> (24-16, 13-5 Eastern Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/golden-state-valkyries-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (21-18, 8-12 Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">San Francisco; Tuesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: New York Liberty will try to stop its four-game road slide when the Liberty visit Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Valkyries have gone 12-7 in home games. Golden State is 11-7 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Liberty are 8-11 on the road. New York is second in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WNBA<\/a> averaging 9.7 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 35.7% from downtown. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/sabrina-ionescu-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> leads the team averaging 2.2 makes while shooting 30.3% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Golden State averages 10.0 made 3-pointers per game, 1.7 more made shots than the 8.3 per game New York gives up. New York has shot at a 45.5% clip from the field this season, 4.9 percentage points greater than the 40.6% shooting opponents of Golden State have averaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Liberty won 81-78 in the last matchup on June 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Temi Fagbenle is averaging 7.1 points for the Valkyries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/veronica-burton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veronica Burton<\/a> is averaging 15.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/breanna-stewart-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breanna Stewart<\/a> is averaging 18 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists for the Liberty. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jonquel-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonquel Jones<\/a> is averaging 14.2 points and 7.2 rebounds while shooting 55.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 7-3, averaging 81.4 points, 32.3 rebounds, 20.3 assists, 6.4 steals and 3.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Liberty: 4-6, averaging 79.8 points, 31.9 rebounds, 21.6 assists, 5.4 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.5 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">INJURIES: Valkyries: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kayla-thornton-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayla Thornton<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">Liberty: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/nyara-sabally-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nyara Sabally<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f2393c96=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press New York Liberty (24-16, 13-5 Eastern Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (21-18, 8-12 Western Conference) San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-124524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124524","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=124524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}