{"id":30759,"date":"2025-07-23T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30759\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:09:08","slug":"minnesota-lynx-beat-chicago-sky-91-68-in-first-game-after-all-star-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30759\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Lynx beat Chicago Sky 91-68 in first game after All-Star weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">From there, both teams traded buckets until the Lynx\u2019s defense \u2014 which recorded 10 points off seven turnovers in the second quarter \u2014 shifted momentum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">McBride\u2019s steal and pull-up jumper midway through the second quarter gave Minnesota its first lead since the opening quarter. She and Collier then fueled a 13-5 run to close the half with a 47-38 advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Collier pointed to the Lynx\u2019s ball pressure as the key to their success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cIt\u2019s so good when we\u2019re up on the ball,\u201d she said, \u201cdisrupting the play, making them catch it out farther than they want to, making sure the posts are under duress. &#8230; That\u2019s something that we\u2019ve been working on, obviously, all season. It feels like we\u2019re finally starting to click on it on all cylinders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Lynx opened the third quarter with an 11-0 run, highlighted by back-to-back threes from Smith and McBride, three free throws from Williams and a Collier layup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">The Sky called a timeout down 20 with 7:18 left in the third, but that did little to stop the Lynx. Chicago never got closer than 18 points for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From there, both teams traded buckets until the Lynx\u2019s defense \u2014 which recorded 10 points off seven turnovers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-30759","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\/30759","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=30759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}