{"id":1006032,"date":"2026-08-17T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006032\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T07:18:16","slug":"cardoso-leads-chicago-against-new-york-after-22-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1006032\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardoso leads Chicago against New York after 22-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Liberty<\/a> (22-14, 10-4 Eastern Conference) at Chicago Sky<\/a> (13-22, 2-10 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Tuesday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky hosts the New York Liberty after Kamilla Cardoso<\/a> scored 22 points in the Chicago Sky’s 82-80 victory over the Seattle Storm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sky are 2-10 in conference matchups. Chicago ranks ninth in the WNBA<\/a> with 33.1 rebounds led by Cardoso averaging 8.7.<\/p>\n

The Liberty are 10-4 in conference play. New York is sixth in the WNBA with 20.9 assists per game led by Pauline Astier<\/a> averaging 3.5.<\/p>\n

Chicago’s average of 7.4 made 3-pointers per game is 1.9 fewer made shots on average than the 9.3 per game New York allows. New York has shot at a 46.3% rate from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points higher than the 44.7% shooting opponents of Chicago have averaged.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the third time this season. The Liberty defeated the Sky 95-94 in their last meeting on July 22. Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> led the Liberty with 29 points, and Sydney Taylor<\/a> led the Sky with 31 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Cardoso is shooting 56.4% and averaging 14.8 points for the Sky. Natasha Cloud<\/a> is averaging 11.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Breanna Stewart<\/a> is averaging 20.7 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists for the Liberty. Ionescu is averaging 17.5 points and 3.9 rebounds while shooting 48.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Sky: 4-6, averaging 88.6 points, 32.3 rebounds, 22.1 assists, 8.8 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 91.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Liberty: 8-2, averaging 95.8 points, 36.5 rebounds, 22.6 assists, 6.1 steals and 4.0 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 90.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Sky: Skylar Diggins<\/a>: out (knee), Sydney Taylor: out (groin), Rickea Jackson<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Liberty: Sabrina Ionescu: day to day (foot), Leonie Fiebich<\/a>: out (foot), Satou Sabally: day to day (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 (22-14, 10-4 Eastern Conference) at Chicago Sky (13-22, 2-10 Eastern Conference) Chicago; Tuesday, 9 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[5336,960,1497,255655,5386,1818,1499,16493,19713,1520,315313,10594,15534,30231,339631,12860],"class_list":["post-1006032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-breanna-stewart","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-sky","tag-event_preview","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-kamilla-cardoso","tag-leonie-fiebich","tag-natasha-cloud","tag-new-york-liberty","tag-pauline-astier","tag-rickea-jackson","tag-sabrina-ionescu","tag-skylar-diggins","tag-sydney-taylor","tag-womens-national-basketball-association"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117109634475395705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}