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Atlanta Dream<\/a> (18-11, 10-6 Eastern Conference) at Chicago Sky<\/a> (8-21, 2-11 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Chicago; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta Dream is looking to build upon its three-game win streak with a victory over Chicago Sky.<\/p>\n The Sky are 2-11 against conference opponents. Chicago has a 5-15 record in games decided by at least 10 points.<\/p>\n The Dream are 10-6 in Eastern Conference play. Atlanta is the Eastern leader with 27.5 defensive rebounds per game led by Brittney Griner<\/a> averaging 4.7.<\/p>\n Chicago averages 76.4 points per game, 2.6 fewer points than the 79.0 Atlanta allows. Atlanta has shot at a 44.2% rate from the field this season, 0.6 percentage points less than the 44.8% shooting opponents of Chicago have averaged.<\/p>\n The two teams play for the fourth time this season. The Dream defeated the Sky 86-49 in their last matchup on July 16. Griner led the Dream with 15 points, and Rebecca Allen<\/a> led the Sky with nine points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> is shooting 52.4% and averaging 12.6 points for the Sky. Rachel Banham<\/a> is averaging 12.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Allisha Gray<\/a> is averaging 18.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.9 assists for the Dream. Naz Hillmon<\/a> is averaging 11.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Sky: 2-8, averaging 71.4 points, 35.7 rebounds, 16.9 assists, 4.9 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 41.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Dream: 6-4, averaging 84.9 points, 34.1 rebounds, 22.2 assists, 7.0 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.6 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Sky: Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl), Angel Reese<\/a>: out (back).<\/p>\n Dream: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Atlanta Dream (18-11, 10-6 Eastern Conference) at Chicago Sky (8-21, 2-11 Eastern Conference) Chicago; Thursday, 8…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-62090","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\/62090","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=62090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}