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New York Liberty<\/a> (21-12, 11-3 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx<\/a> (27-5, 17-2 Western Conference)<\/p>\n Minneapolis; Saturday, 2 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lynx -2; over\/under is 165.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: New York Liberty visits the Minnesota Lynx after Emma Meesseman<\/a> scored 24 points in the Liberty’s 83-77 loss to the Las Vegas Aces<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Lynx are 16-1 in home games. Minnesota ranks second in the Western Conference with 25.8 defensive rebounds per game led by Napheesa Collier<\/a> averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n The Liberty are 8-8 in road games. New York averages 86.7 points while outscoring opponents by 5.2 points per game.<\/p>\n Minnesota scores 87.0 points, 5.5 more per game than the 81.5 New York gives up. New York has shot at a 45.6% rate from the field this season, 3.7 percentage points greater than the 41.9% shooting opponents of Minnesota have averaged.<\/p>\n The two teams square off for the third time this season. The Lynx defeated the Liberty 83-71 in their last matchup on Aug. 10. Kayla McBride<\/a> led the Lynx with 18 points, and Natasha Cloud<\/a> led the Liberty with 14 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: McBride is averaging 14.8 points and 3.4 assists for the Lynx. Collier is averaging 16.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Cloud is averaging 9.9 points and 5.5 assists for the Liberty. Sabrina Ionescu<\/a> is averaging 20.4 points and 5.3 rebounds while shooting 44.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Lynx: 9-1, averaging 92.1 points, 35.3 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 9.2 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.5 points per game.<\/p>\n Liberty: 4-6, averaging 84.9 points, 32.5 rebounds, 22.5 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 86.5 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Lynx: Napheesa Collier: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Liberty: Breanna Stewart<\/a>: out (leg), Nyara Sabally<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press New York Liberty (21-12, 11-3 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (27-5, 17-2 Western Conference) Minneapolis; Saturday,…\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-147241","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\/115031637015191618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147241","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=147241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147241\/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=147241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}