{"id":869219,"date":"2026-10-03T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869219\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:16:25","slug":"dream-start-semifinals-against-the-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869219\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream start semifinals against the Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Liberty<\/a> (26-18, 13-7 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream<\/a> (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

College Park, Georgia; Sunday, 2 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Dream -3.5; over\/under is 173.5<\/p>\n

WNBA<\/a> PLAYOFFS SEMIFINALS: Dream host first series matchup<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Dream host the New York Liberty to start the WNBA playoffs semifinals. Atlanta went 2-1 against New York during the regular season. The Dream won the last regular season matchup 83-65 on Sept. 24. Allisha Gray<\/a> led the Dream with 24 points, and Marine Fauthoux<\/a> led the Liberty with 14 points.<\/p>\n

The Dream have gone 15-5 against Eastern Conference teams. Atlanta is fourth in the WNBA giving up 84.5 points per game while holding opponents to 46.9% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are 13-7 in conference matchups. New York is third in the Eastern Conference scoring 89.6 points per game and is shooting 46.0%.<\/p>\n

Atlanta’s average of 9.0 made 3-pointers per game this season is the same per game average that New York gives up. New York has shot at a 46.0% clip from the field this season, 0.9 percentage points below the 46.9% shooting opponents of Atlanta have averaged.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Angel Reese<\/a> is scoring 16.4 points per game and averaging 12.1 rebounds for the Dream. Gray is averaging 18.0 points and 3.9 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jonquel Jones<\/a> is averaging 14.5 points and 9.1 rebounds for the Liberty. Breanna Stewart<\/a> is averaging 20.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 9-1, averaging 92.1 points, 35.3 rebounds, 22.1 assists, 9.9 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Liberty: 6-4, averaging 86.6 points, 37.2 rebounds, 20.7 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 45.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dream: Brionna Jones: out for season (leg).<\/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 (26-18, 13-7 Eastern Conference) at Atlanta Dream (30-14, 15-5 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[4130,3691,3444,435,230765,14400,265440,436,99,434,13016],"class_list":["post-869219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-allisha-gray","tag-angel-reese","tag-atlanta-dream","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-event_preview","tag-jonquel-jones","tag-marine-fauthoux","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869219","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=869219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}