The New York Liberty are fading in the WNBA standings with Breanna Stewart (knee) banged up.<\/p>\n
After losing the Chicago Sky and Atlanta Dream, New York is just fifth in the standings in the W and facing a serious uphill battle to earn the No. 2 seed. The No. 4\/No. 5 spots in the playoff standings are tough, because they set up a second-round date with the Minnesota Lynx in the playoffs (assuming the top-seeded Lynx advance).<\/p>\n
Sabrina Ionescu missed New York\u2019s last game as well, but she\u2019s listed as questionable, along with Stewart, on Monday night against the Connecticut Sun.<\/p>\n
The Sun have jumped out of the last spot in the standings, moving to 9-27 in 2025 with a three-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
Connecticut is still eliminated from playoff contention, but it could be frisky on Monday night against a Liberty team that has been operating at less than 100 percent all month.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the latest odds, players to watch in the prop market and my prediction for Monday\u2019s Eastern Conference battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a><\/p>\n Spread<\/strong><\/p>\n Moneyline<\/strong><\/p>\n Total<\/strong><\/p>\n Sun Injury Report<\/strong>Liberty Injury Report<\/strong>Sun Best WNBA Prop Bet<\/strong><\/p>\n This season, the Liberty rank No. 1 in the WNBA in opponent 3-point percentage (31.1 percent), and they\u2019ve given Mabrey trouble in three meetings that she\u2019s played in between these squads.<\/p>\n The veteran guard is just 5-for-26 overall (including a dreadful 3-for-17 in her last two games against NY) against the Liberty from beyond the arc, and she\u2019s shooting just 27.0 percent from 3 in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n Mabrey is a streaky player, but her 3-point shot has not fallen as of late, as she\u2019s posted five games since the All-Star break without a single made 3. Overall, she\u2019s shooting just 24.5 percent from deep since the break.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll gladly fade her in a tough matchup on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Liberty simply have not played well since the All-Star break, and they\u2019ve been even worse without Stewart. She could return tonight, but it’s hard to bet on the Liberty because she could be on a minutes restiction if she does play.<\/p>\n In the 13 games that the former league MVP has missed, New York is just 5-8 overall. So, I\u2019m far from sold that it\u2019ll be able to blow out the Sun, especially since Connecticut has played much better over its last 10 games.<\/p>\n During this 10-game stretch, CT ranks 10th in the league in net rating (-3.4) while the Liberty are at an even 0.0. So, there may not be as big of a gap as this spread suggests, despite the blowout wins New York has over CT this season.<\/p>\n To their credit, the Sun are 20-16 against the spread, and they are usually set as double-digit dogs. The Liberty, on the other hand, are just 13-22-2 against the spread and have struggled to win games by wide margins since Stewart went out.<\/p>\n The five wins the Liberty have without her have all come by less than 14 points, and they have a loss to the Sun mixed in there.\u00a0<\/p>\n I\u2019ll gladly take the points in this meeting on Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pick: Sun +12.5 <\/strong>(-110 at DraftKings)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.<\/p>\n If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/p>\n Claim the latest\u00a0<\/a>DraftKings promo code<\/a>\u00a0offer today. Sign up and place a $5 bet to earn a guaranteed\u00a0$200 in bonus bets plus over $200 off NFL Sunday Ticket<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Regardless of the outcome of your wager,DraftKings will add eight $25 bonus bet tokens to your new account and award one promo code for a discounted NFL Sunday ticket subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Liberty are fading in the WNBA standings with Breanna Stewart (knee) banged up. After losing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":174237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[62,67,132,68,232],"class_list":{"0":"post-174236","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\/115089255001622968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174236","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=174236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}