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Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (13-13, 6-8 Western Conference) at Chicago Sky<\/a> (7-19, 1-11 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n Chicago; Friday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky is looking to stop its four-game home skid with a victory over Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n The Sky have gone 4-8 at home. Chicago is fifth in the Eastern Conference scoring 77.1 points while shooting 41.9% from the field.<\/p>\n The Valkyries have gone 5-9 away from home. Golden State ranks seventh in the Western Conference shooting 31.5% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n Chicago is shooting 41.9% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 40.5% Golden State allows to opponents. Golden State averages 9.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 fewer makes per game than Chicago allows.<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season. The Valkyries won the last matchup 83-78 on June 28, with Kayla Thornton<\/a> scoring 29 points in the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Angel Reese<\/a> is averaging 14.2 points, 12.6 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals for the Sky. Rachel Banham<\/a> is averaging 14.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Veronica Burton<\/a> is averaging 10.7 points and 5.2 assists for the Valkyries. Tiffany Hayes<\/a> is averaging 11.1 points and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 46.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Sky: 2-8, averaging 74.4 points, 37.2 rebounds, 17.1 assists, 5.5 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 41.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 87.7 points per game.<\/p>\n Valkyries: 4-6, averaging 76.4 points, 34.3 rebounds, 18.9 assists, 5.1 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 40.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.5 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Sky: Ariel Atkins<\/a>: out (leg), Courtney Vandersloot<\/a>: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n Valkyries: Kayla Thornton: 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":"Associated Press Golden State Valkyries (13-13, 6-8 Western Conference) at Chicago Sky (7-19, 1-11 Eastern Conference) Chicago; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-109585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114952156329277428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585","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=109585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}