{"id":402751,"date":"2026-01-12T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402751\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T10:11:11","slug":"3-wnba-players-injured-ahead-of-unrivaleds-second-day-of-action-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402751\/","title":{"rendered":"3 WNBA players injured ahead of Unrivaled\u2019s second day of action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/womens-sports\/1098812\/paige-bueckers-and-5-other-top-performers-from-unrivaleds-opening-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unrivaled<\/a> tipped off on Monday \u2014 and saw 48 players of the WNBA\u2019s top players compete in full-court 3-on-3 basketball. Chelsea Gray dropped 35 points and 8 assists to lead the defending champion Rose club to victory, while Paige Bueckers posted 24 points and 6 assists in her Unrivaled debut, leading the Hive to a win. Plus, Allisha Gray (Mist Club) and Brittney Sykes (Laces Club) both had strong showings in wins.<\/p>\n<p>4 Unrivaled clubs set to face off on Friday night<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Friday night, four clubs will compete again; the Vinyl face the Rose at 7:30 pm, and the Breeze face the Hive at 8:45 pm. All of the action will be broadcast on TNT and TruTV, and is part of the second season of Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart\u2019s Miami-based professional women\u2019s basketball league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Vinyl (0-1) \u2014 led by Courtney Williams, Rhyne Howard, Dearica Hamby, Erica Wheeler, and Rae Burrell \u2014 will be without Brittney Griner, who is sidelined with a right lower extremity (Unrivaled does not share specific details of injuries). The Vinyl lost their first game of the season, 58-42 to the Laces, and will look to get their first win of the season on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rose (1-0) \u2014 led by Chelsea Gray, Azur\u00e1 Stevens, Lexie Hull, Shakira Austin, and Sug Sutton \u2014 will be without Kahleah Copper, who is out with a right lower extremity injury. The Rose beat the Lunar Owls 80-62 en route to their first win of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Hive (0-1) \u2014 led by Kelsey Mitchell, Sonia Citron, Ezi Magbegor, Natisha Hiedeman, Saniya Rivers, and Monique Billings \u2014 is injury-free entering the second game of the season. The Hive fell to the Mist 72-56 en route to their first loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And, the Breeze (1-0) \u2014 led by Paige Bueckers, Rickea Jackson, Dominique Malonga, Kate Martin, and Cameron Brink \u2014 will be without Aari McDonald, who hurt her right leg in the season\u2019s opening game. The Breeze began the year with a 69-62 win over the Phantom.<\/p>\n<p>Unrivaled teams can leverage the developmental pool, if needed<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If injuries pile up, teams can tap into Unrivaled\u2019s developmental pool for additional bodies, which includes Chicago Sky guard Hailey Van Lith, Dallas Wings guards Aziaha James and Haley Jones, Washington Mystics forward Emily Engstler, Golden State Valkyries forward Laeticia Amihere, Indiana Fever forward Makayla Timpson, and former WNBA guard Kiana Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">These younger players are all in Miami for the summer and training at the Unrivaled facilities, but won\u2019t be assigned to actual clubs unless injuries pile up. With clubs still largely healthy, that has yet to happen in Week One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unrivaled tipped off on Monday \u2014 and saw 48 players of the WNBA\u2019s top players compete in full-court&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-402751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402751","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=402751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}