{"id":96305,"date":"2025-08-20T07:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96305\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:55:07","slug":"gray-and-the-dream-take-on-williams-and-the-lynx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/96305\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray and the Dream take on Williams and the Lynx"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/minnesota-lynx-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Lynx<\/a> (28-6, 17-2 Western Conference) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/atlanta-dream-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Dream<\/a> (22-13, 11-6 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">College Park, Georgia; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/allisha-gray-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allisha Gray<\/a> and the Atlanta Dream host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/courtney-williams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtney Williams<\/a> and the Minnesota Lynx in out-of-conference action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Dream have gone 10-5 at home. Atlanta has a 3-4 record in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Lynx are 11-5 on the road. Minnesota ranks fifth in the Western Conference with 8.4 offensive rebounds per game led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/jessica-shepard-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Shepard<\/a> averaging 2.3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Atlanta averages 9.3 made 3-pointers per game, 1.7 more made shots than the 7.6 per game Minnesota gives up. Minnesota averages 9.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.7 more made shots on average than the 6.8 per game Atlanta allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The two teams play for the third time this season. The Dream defeated the Lynx 90-86 in their last matchup on July 27. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/brittney-griner-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittney Griner<\/a> led the Dream with 22 points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/napheesa-collier-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Napheesa Collier<\/a> led the Lynx with 32 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/brionna-jones-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brionna Jones<\/a> is averaging 12.7 points and 7.3 rebounds for the Dream. Gray is averaging 18.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Williams is averaging 14.3 points and 6.2 assists for the Lynx. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/wnba\/kayla-mcbride-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayla McBride<\/a> is averaging 15.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Dream: 7-3, averaging 83.1 points, 35.0 rebounds, 21.2 assists, 7.3 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 74.0 points per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Lynx: 8-2, averaging 91.2 points, 34.1 rebounds, 22.7 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 78.6 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">INJURIES: Dream: Jordin Canada: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">Lynx: Napheesa Collier: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Minnesota Lynx (28-6, 17-2 Western Conference) at Atlanta Dream (22-13, 11-6 Eastern Conference) College Park, Georgia;&hellip;\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-96305","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\/96305","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=96305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96305\/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=96305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}