As Rebekkah Brunson remarked, and Cheryl Reeve concurred, any pregame pep talk Wednesday was futile. All the Lynx had to do was mentally rewind to nine months ago \u2014 that is, if the image wasn\u2019t already burned into their corneas. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe last time we saw each other they were, you know, in confetti,\u201d Reeve said, \u201cand we were not.\u201d<\/p>\n
What more was there to say? Very little, Reeve suggested, especially after the Lynx had just suffered their first regular-season home loss to the Dream on Sunday. The parting message to the Lynx before tip-off was, more or less: \u201cWe already know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Behind Napheesa Collier\u2019s 30 points, the Lynx (23-5) toppled the reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty 100-93 on Wednesday night at Target Center. <\/p>\n
Kayla McBride added 24 points, while Courtney Williams tallied 13 assists, tying a career-high. Sabrina Ionescu finished with a game-high 31 points for the Liberty.<\/p>\n
The loss extends New York\u2019s skid to three games since Saturday, which saw two-time league MVP Breanna Stewart go down. She was still sidelined Wednesday with a right knee bone bruise. Stewart was one of four Liberty players who sat out \u2014 five if you include Emma Meesseman, who just joined the team but was unavailable against the Lynx.<\/p>\n
It took the Lynx a few minutes to warm up Wednesday, but they soon took advantage of the guard-heavy lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Rebekkah Brunson remarked, and Cheryl Reeve concurred, any pregame pep talk Wednesday was futile. All the Lynx…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-49517","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\/49517","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=49517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}