NEW YORK \u2014 Kamilla Cardoso had 22 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, Angel Reese added 21 points and 10 rebounds and the Chicago Sky beat the New York Liberty 91-85 on Thursday night to end a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
The Sky (9-26), who had lost 13 of 14, also snapped a five-game skid against the Liberty.<\/p>\n
Ariel Atkins scored 19 points, nine in the fourth quarter, and Michaela Onyenwere added 13 for the Sky in a game that featured 21 lead changes and 11 ties.<\/p>\n
Jonquel Jones made a career-high-tying five 3-pointers and scored 25 points for the Liberty. Sabrina Ionescu added 16 points and Natasha Cloud 14.<\/p>\n
Ionescu made two free throws that gave the Liberty an 85-83 lead with 2 minutes, 23 seconds left in the game. Atkins answered with a runner in the lane, drew a foul fighting through a screen by Emma Meesseman and then made one from the free-throw line to give the Sky the lead for good with 1:35 remaining.<\/p>\n
The Liberty, the defending WNBA champion, went 0-for-4 from the field with a turnover as the Sky closed the game with an 8-0 run.<\/p>\n
The Sky scored a season-high 52 points in the paint and shot 50% (31 of 62) from the field. Cardoso made 8 of 9 from the field, hit 6 of 6 from the free-throw line and had five assists.<\/p>\n
The Liberty, who went into the game leading the WNBA in made 3-pointers (9.9 per game), were 10 of 20 from 3-point range in the first half but hit just 3 of 17 (18%) after halftime.<\/p>\n
Breanna Stewart (knee) did not play for the Liberty.<\/p>\n
The Liberty plays the Atlanta Dream on the road Saturday and the Sky plays host to the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n
Originally Published: August 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Kamilla Cardoso had 22 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, Angel Reese added 21 points…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":165351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[1496,1501,960,1497,5386,1818,2338,1499,1520,95193,15534,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-165350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-angel-reese","9":"tag-ariel-atkins","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-chicago-sky","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-jonquel-jones","15":"tag-kamilla-cardoso","16":"tag-new-york-liberty","17":"tag-nichaela-onyenwere","18":"tag-sabrina-ionescu","19":"tag-wnba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115070081682867105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165350","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=165350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}