SEATTLE \u2013 Nneka Ogwumike scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds on Friday night, but the Seattle Storm dropped an 84-76 to the New York Liberty inside Climate Pledge Arena.<\/p>\n
Skylar Diggins had 14 points and dished out a team-high seven assists for the Storm. Brittney Sykes had 11 and Erica Wheeler tallied 12 off the bench.<\/p>\n
A hot-shooting second-quarter (75% on 12-of-16) helped the Storm build an eight-point halftime lead, 47-39. It grew to as many as nine during the third quarter, the last time at 56-47.<\/p>\n
Seattle was still up 60-59 entering the fourth quarter. The teams traded the first two baskets before the Liberty went on a\u00a0run to take a 72-64 lead.<\/p>\n
The Storm put together an 8-2 burst, capped by a 3-pointer from Wheeler and a shot by Ogwumike to get within two at 74-72 and 3:21 still on the clock.<\/p>\n
New York went back up and held on to the lead for the eight-point win.<\/p>\n
On the way to her 20 points, Ogwumike hit 8-of-15 from the floor. At 51.8% for the season, she remains one of just eight players in the league to be above 50% accuracy. It was also the 275th game of her career with 15 or more points, passing Tamika Catchings for No. 3 on all-time WNBA list for games with 15+ points.<\/p>\n
Ezi Magbegor had three blocked shots, pushing her past 350 for her career (now 351).<\/p>\n
Gabby Williams had two steals, putting her at 98 for the season, just three away from breaking the WNBA single-season steals record. The Storm had 10 steals for the game, their 13th time this season in double digits.<\/p>\n
Breanna Stewart led the Liberty with 24 points and Leonie Fiebich had 21.<\/p>\n
UP NEXT: The Storm\u2019s final home game of the 2025 regular season is on Tuesday, September 9 against the Golden State Valkyries. Tipoff is at 7:00 pm PT and will be broadcast locally on CW Seattle and available for Prime Video users in Washington State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2013 Nneka Ogwumike scored 20 points and grabbed nine rebounds on Friday night, but the Seattle Storm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-142475","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\/142475","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=142475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}