{"id":187273,"date":"2025-09-28T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/187273\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:45:16","slug":"lynxs-carrington-out-for-playoffs-with-significant-foot-sprain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/187273\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynx’s Carrington out for playoffs with ‘significant’ foot sprain"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Lynx<\/a> guard DiJonai Carrington<\/a> will miss the rest of the postseason after tests revealed she suffered a “significant mid-foot sprain,” the team announced Saturday.<\/p>\n

An MRI exam confirmed the sprain after Carrington originally was ruled out for Game 1 of the Lynx’s WNBA semifinal series against the Phoenix Mercury<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Carrington appeared to have injured her foot late in Game 2 of the first-round series against the Golden State Valkyries<\/a>. She was seen wearing a boot and walking with crutches Friday at teammate Alanna Smith<\/a>‘s news conference for her Defensive Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n

Without Carrington, Minnesota’s bench loses an important two-way player. In both games of the first-round series against the Valkyries, she provided the team with an offensive burst, scoring six points in Game 1 and 11 in Game 2. An all-defensive first-team selection in 2024, Carrington also defended Golden State’s top guard on the court.<\/p>\n

Carrington averaged 8.6 points in her 11 regular-season games with the Lynx, and she shot 48.5% overall and hit 45.5% from the 3-point arc in those games, both career highs. She missed the last four games of the regular season with a shoulder injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Lynx guard DiJonai Carrington will miss the rest of the postseason after tests revealed she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-187273","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\/187273","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=187273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}