{"id":828469,"date":"2026-08-28T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:42:09","slug":"cardoso-leads-chicago-against-new-york-after-24-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828469\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardoso leads Chicago against New York after 24-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago Sky<\/a> (15-24, 3-12 Eastern Conference) at New York Liberty<\/a> (23-16, 11-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

New York; Saturday, 1 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky plays the New York Liberty after Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> scored 24 points in the Sky’s 87-81 loss to the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are 11-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York averages 13.6 turnovers per game and is 6- when it wins the turnover battle.<\/p>\n

The Sky are 3-12 in conference matchups. Chicago gives up 89.8 points to opponents and has been outscored by 2.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

New York averages 10.2 made 3-pointers per game, 2.4 more made shots than the 7.8 per game Chicago allows. Chicago has shot at a 44.3% clip from the field this season, 1.1 percentage points below the 45.4% shooting opponents of New York have averaged.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Sky won 93-86 in the last matchup on Aug. 19. Natasha Cloud<\/a> led the Sky with 35 points, and Breanna Stewart<\/a> led the Liberty with 22 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jonquel Jones<\/a> is averaging 14.7 points and 9.1 rebounds for the Liberty. Stewart is averaging 20.6 points, 8.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Cardoso is scoring 14.9 points per game and averaging 8.9 rebounds for the Sky. Rachel Banham<\/a> is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 7-3, averaging 90.6 points, 36.7 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 5.5 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Sky: 4-6, averaging 86.0 points, 34.9 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 7.3 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 90.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Liberty: Satou Sabally: out (head).<\/p>\n

Sky: DiJonai Carrington<\/a>: day to day (foot), Natasha Cloud: day to day (knee), Skylar Diggins<\/a>: out (knee), Rickea Jackson<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/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":"Chicago Sky (15-24, 3-12 Eastern Conference) at New York Liberty (23-16, 11-5 Eastern Conference) New York; Saturday, 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,438,2836,230765,14400,29492,7788,436,29493,68329,4386,99,434,13016],"class_list":["post-828469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-chicago-sky","tag-dijonai-carrington","tag-event_preview","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-rachel-banham","tag-rickea-jackson","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828469","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=828469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}