Chicago Sky (8-26, 2-14 Eastern Conference) at New York Liberty (22-13, 11-3 Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Chicago Sky will attempt to break its six-game road slide when the Sky take on New York Liberty.<\/p>\n
The Liberty have gone 11-3 against Eastern Conference opponents. New York ranks sixth in the Eastern Conference with 6.8 offensive rebounds per game led by Nyara Sabally averaging 1.7.<\/p>\n
The Sky are 2-14 in Eastern Conference play. Chicago ranks third in the WNBA with 35.7 rebounds per game led by Angel Reese averaging 12.3.<\/p>\n
New York scores 86.4 points per game, 0.1 more points than the 86.3 Chicago gives up. Chicago has shot at a 41.9% clip from the field this season, 0.1 percentage points below the 42.0% shooting opponents of New York have averaged.<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for the third time this season. The Liberty defeated the Sky 85-66 in their last meeting on June 11. Sabrina Ionescu led the Liberty with 23 points, and Reese led the Sky with 17 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Ionescu is shooting 39.9% and averaging 19.1 points for the Liberty. Jonquel Jones is averaging 15.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Reese is averaging 14.4 points, 12.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Sky. Rachel Banham is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 5-5, averaging 83.3 points, 32.8 rebounds, 22.4 assists, 6.3 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Sky: 1-9, averaging 71.9 points, 34.0 rebounds, 20.0 assists, 4.7 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 42.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 84.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Liberty: Breanna Stewart: out (leg), Nyara Sabally: out (knee).<\/p>\n
Sky: Courtney Vandersloot: out for season (acl).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky (8-26, 2-14 Eastern Conference) at New York Liberty (22-13, 11-3 Eastern Conference) New York; Thursday, 7…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[93125,960,1497,5723,5386,1818,1520,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-160590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-93125","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-sky","11":"tag-espn","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-new-york-liberty","15":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115060078358635778","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160590","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=160590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}