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Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (18-18, 7-12 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings<\/a> (9-28, 3-16 Western Conference)<\/p>\n Arlington, Texas; Sunday, 4 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Dallas Wings comes into the matchup with Golden State Valkyries after losing four straight games.<\/p>\n The Wings are 3-16 in conference matchups. Dallas leads the Western Conference in rebounding, averaging 35.7 boards. Myisha Hines-Allen<\/a> leads the Wings with 5.4 rebounds.<\/p>\n The Valkyries are 7-12 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State ranks third in the WNBA<\/a> with 26.3 defensive rebounds per game led by Kayla Thornton<\/a> averaging 5.2.<\/p>\n Dallas is shooting 41.9% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point higher than the 40.9% Golden State allows to opponents. Golden State averages 78.0 points per game, 9.4 fewer points than the 87.4 Dallas gives up to opponents.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the third time this season. The Valkyries defeated the Wings 86-76 in their last meeting on July 26. Tiffany Hayes<\/a> led the Valkyries with 17 points, and Paige Bueckers<\/a> led the Wings with 17 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Hines-Allen is averaging 6.6 points and 5.4 rebounds for the Wings. Bueckers is averaging 19.4 points, 5.1 assists and 1.7 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Veronica Burton<\/a> is scoring 11.7 points per game and averaging 4.2 rebounds for the Valkyries. Iliana Rupert<\/a> is averaging 1.8 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Wings: 1-9, averaging 79.8 points, 32.8 rebounds, 19.7 assists, 6.7 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 89.9 points per game.<\/p>\n Valkyries: 5-5, averaging 77.2 points, 31.9 rebounds, 18.2 assists, 7.0 steals and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 40.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.1 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Wings: Arike Ogunbowale<\/a>: out (knee), Li Yueru<\/a>: out for season (knee), Tyasha Harris<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/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 \n What did you think of this story?\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Golden State Valkyries (18-18, 7-12 Western Conference) at Dallas Wings (9-28, 3-16 Western Conference) Arlington, Texas;…\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-168690","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\/115077135901936811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168690","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=168690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168690\/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=168690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}