{"id":644100,"date":"2026-05-15T05:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644100\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:37:08","slug":"new-york-liberty-gain-their-revenge-with-blowout-win-at-moda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/644100\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Liberty gain their revenge with blowout win at Moda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two nights after <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/sports\/fire-wnba\/portland-fire-beats-the-buzzer-to-collect-first-win-since-rebirth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">getting beat at the buzzer by the Portland Fire<\/a>, the New York Liberty got their revenge Thursday night with a 100-82 win over the Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire started the game strong, opening up a 19-12 lead late in the first quarter on a 3-pointer by Nyadiew Puoch. Megan Gustafson cut through the lane for a layup to put the Fire ahead 27-18 early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>But New York scored the next 11 points to move in front.<\/p>\n<p>The teams would trade the lead nine times in the first half before Betnijah Hamilton beat the clock with a layup to send the Liberty into the locker room with a 39-37 edge.<\/p>\n<p>New York pulled away with a 10-point run in the third quarter, and a series of free throws sent the Liberty into the fourth quarter with a 17-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>That margin would grow to as many as 22 points down the stretch, as Portland never threatened.<\/p>\n<p>Gustafson came off the bench to hit 5-of-6 (83.3%) shots and lead the Fire with 14 points.<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s Breanna Stewart finished with a game-high 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we got significantly better in these two games, even though that may not show on the scoreboard today,\u201d Fire coach  Alex Sarama said.<\/p>\n<p>Portland is at home against the Connecticut Sun at 7 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two nights after getting beat at the buzzer by the Portland Fire, the New York Liberty got their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-644100","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\/644100","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=644100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}