{"id":170821,"date":"2025-09-21T01:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170821\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:14:06","slug":"lynxs-carrington-done-for-season-with-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170821\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx&#8217;s Carrington done for season with foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DiJonai Carrington will miss the remainder of the playoffs due to a significant mid-foot sprain sustained Wednesday in the Minnesota Lynx&#8217;s Game 2 win over the Golden State Valkyries, the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington had already been ruled out for Sunday&#8217;s WNBA semifinals opener against the Phoenix Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota acquired Carrington from the Dallas Wings ahead of the trade deadline. The 27-year-old played a key role off the Lynx&#8217;s bench since her arrival, averaging 8.6 points and 1.2 steals to go with a 45.5% clip from deep across 11 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Carrington scored 11 points in 14 minutes during the team&#8217;s series-clinching win versus the Valkyries.<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Sun selected Carrington with the 20th overall pick in the 2021 WNBA draft. She had a breakout season last year during her final campaign with the Sun, winning Most Improved Player honors and earning her maiden All-Defensive first-team selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DiJonai Carrington will miss the remainder of the playoffs due to a significant mid-foot sprain sustained Wednesday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-170821","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\/170821","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=170821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}