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Washington Mystics<\/a> (16-23, 8-10 Eastern Conference) at Golden State Valkyries<\/a> (19-18, 8-12 Western Conference)<\/p>\n San Francisco; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Golden State Valkyries will try to earn its 20th win of the season when the Valkyries take on the Washington Mystics.<\/p>\n The Valkyries have gone 10-7 in home games. Golden State is the league leader averaging 9.9 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 32.6% from deep. Veronica Burton<\/a> leads the team averaging 1.6 makes while shooting 37.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Mystics are 6-13 on the road. Washington ranks seventh in the WNBA<\/a> allowing 81.2 points while holding opponents to 44.3% shooting.<\/p>\n Golden State averages 9.9 made 3-pointers per game, 2.2 more made shots than the 7.7 per game Washington allows. Washington averages 5.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.5 fewer made shots on average than the 9.1 per game Golden State allows.<\/p>\n The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Valkyries won the last meeting 88-83 on Aug. 13. Burton scored 30 points to help lead the Valkyries to the win.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Burton is scoring 12.0 points per game with 4.2 rebounds and 5.6 assists for the Valkyries. Janelle Salaun<\/a> is averaging 11.4 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Kiki Iriafen is averaging 13 points and 8.6 rebounds for the Mystics. Sonia Citron<\/a> is averaging 18.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Valkyries: 5-5, averaging 78.9 points, 32.8 rebounds, 18.7 assists, 6.6 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 41.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 77.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Mystics: 3-7, averaging 78.4 points, 30.6 rebounds, 20.6 assists, 5.6 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 82.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Valkyries: Kayla Thornton<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n Mystics: Georgia Amoore<\/a>: out for season (acl), Jacy Sheldon<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/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 Washington Mystics (16-23, 8-10 Eastern Conference) at Golden State Valkyries (19-18, 8-12 Western Conference) San Francisco;…\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-184115","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\/115110917185248730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184115","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=184115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184115\/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=184115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}