{"id":850771,"date":"2026-09-17T08:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850771\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:46:10","slug":"new-york-looks-for-25th-win-this-season-in-matchup-against-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850771\/","title":{"rendered":"New York looks for 25th win this season in matchup against Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Liberty<\/a> (24-16, 12-5 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx<\/a> (31-9, 20-3 Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Lynx -7.5; over\/under is 176.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: New York Liberty will try to earn its 25th victory this season when the Liberty visit the Minnesota Lynx.<\/p>\n

The Lynx have gone 14-6 in home games. Minnesota ranks seventh in the WNBA<\/a> with 39.2 points in the paint led by Natasha Howard<\/a> averaging 11.6.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are 10-10 on the road. New York averages 13.5 turnovers per game and is 6- when committing fewer turnovers than opponents.<\/p>\n

Minnesota makes 48.2% of its shots from the field this season, which is 3.0 percentage points higher than New York has allowed to its opponents (45.2%). New York scores 6.4 more points per game (89.8) than Minnesota gives up (83.4).<\/p>\n

The two teams play for the third time this season. The Lynx defeated the Liberty 90-85 in their last matchup on July 11. Kayla McBride<\/a> led the Lynx with 25 points, and Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> led the Liberty with 25 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Olivia Miles<\/a> is shooting 49.5% and averaging 19.7 points for the Lynx. McBride is averaging 18.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Breanna Stewart<\/a> is scoring 20.4 points per game and averaging 8.1 rebounds for the Liberty. Jonquel Jones<\/a> is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lynx: 7-3, averaging 88.6 points, 31.3 rebounds, 21.4 assists, 8.1 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 85.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Liberty: 7-3, averaging 89.7 points, 37.4 rebounds, 21.5 assists, 5.8 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lynx: Emma Cechova: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Liberty: Satou Sabally: out for season (head).<\/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":"New York Liberty (24-16, 12-5 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (31-9, 20-3 Western Conference) Minneapolis; Friday, 7:30 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[435,230765,14400,18117,1077,12814,436,15114,3675,99,434,13016],"class_list":["post-850771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-event_preview","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-kayla-mcbride","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-natasha-howard","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-olivia-miles","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850771","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=850771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}